Tag Archives: Software Development

Software Quality and Testing Podcasts

Podcasts are useful resources for testing community. These are free mp3 files you can download and listen to at your convenience. It contains various topics on Software Testing, Quality, & Development. I

Explore the Testability aspect for Java Code

The Testability Explorer is an open source project that lets you measure the testability of Java code. This is an interesting idea: a metric not of direct quality, or of testing, or

Software Requirements are Required Reading by project teams.

I have always challenges with the Software Requirements for the products and would be the same for others too. Most of the time, the requirements talk about just the functional needs and

My quest towards Code Quality Metrics

  The term quality might mean different things to different people based on their context of operation and it’s tough to have universal definition for the same.My experiments with software development started

CRAP4J for Java Code Quality

I have been talking about Code Quality through Static Analysis for a while here, here & here. The quality for any application development must begin from it’s gross roots and the Application

What Jar – Solution to NoClassDefFoundError

As a Tester & Developer, it’s pretty common to see NoClassDefFoundError. It’s not that easy always to figureout the required jars for the application. Whatjar comes with a lot of search capabilities

Non linear paths from Application Code

The applications become complex as their code base increases. This has challenges for the testers to determine the nonlinear paths in the application.Most of the Static Analysis tools over the application code

Software Testing – Is it a cost or an Investment for Stakeholders ?

Software Testing is considered as a Cost for some Stakeholders & an Investment for others in their context of operation. It’s good to know the status in your context. I had this query in LinkedIn Answers & thought of sharing the good discussion

Bug in the BSNL Portal

Today, i have come across an interesting issue with BSNL Portal. I have been using this site for online billing and payments for about an year. Followed the usual steps and my

Use Cyclomatic Complexity to determine the Risk and Test Scenarios

Cyclomatic Complexity (CC) is a software metric (mostly code based metric) used to the number of independent path executions in the application. Introduced by Thomas McCabe in 1976, it measures the number