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Chris Pattinson, Director of Quality Assurance, spoke to us this week regarding his role at Embarcadero Technologies – a database tools and developer software company. After watching the video I hope you'll read an excerpt from a blog post Chris recently wrote (July 2009).
Software quality assurance (SQA) consists of a means of monitoring the software engineering processes and methods used to ensure quality. The methods by which this is accomplished are many and varied, and may include ensuring conformance to one or more standards, such as ISO 9000 or CMMI.
I’ve now had almost a decade in the Quality Assurance field of software development, and while all folks understand the importance of testing, the understanding and measuring of the real value of a quality assurance organization can be difficult to determine.
From my personal view, a well run quality organization achieves three majors goals:
By visibility, the more mature the testing organization is, the faster and more effectively problems are found and the impact of problems are understood. When a bug is reported, a mature organization can analyze the frequency and impact of such an issue, then once it’s analyzed create an effective automated test to ensure that once the issue is fixed, it stays fixed.
Visibility is more then just detecting the bug as well - the requirement for a feature may be ambiguous or incomplete leading to inefficiencies in development. And then other processes such as code reviews, project planning, and release processes could all have areas that if improved, not only ensure a product is shipped of good quality but that the process to do so is lean, mean and very effective - less waste of one of the most precious resources : Time.
Control is achieved by clearly defined milestones and acceptance criteria to validate that milestone. It’s easy to say you have your first Beta build with no qualifications, however if you state the beta build needs to have certain functionality and bug thresholds, then you can ensure the team aims for those goals and can keep a project ‘health’ in good shape. You can also ensure that when you release a product to market, you clearly understand it’s state and can more confidently predict revenue. Also, public beta’s advertise how your organization cares about a product, and customers can feel part of the development process - as well as help other customers learn and use the product.
QA in itself does not fix a product - however QA ENABLES the R&D team to fix a product and better meet a customer’s needs. And with highly visible test systems that run frequently, this adds huge value to R&D - the sooner a bug is detected the easier it is to fix.
Now, the first two factors are hard to measure. Development Debt can be measured on the time it takes for developers to work on bug fixing during a product cycle. This work can be measured against customer satisfaction to understand the development cost of bugs to achieve certain satisfaction levels. A well run development process with mature quality organization can be truly agile and spend more time on features, and less on bug fixing since the cost of fixing a bug found quickly after introduced is hugely less then found later.
Take the simple scenario - an engineer modifies a feature and a manual tester looks at it, and certifies it’s ok. However a bug now occurs in another feature that depended on a property that was modified and this other feature wasn’t tested. Worst case, the customer finds the issue weeks or months later after many other code changes - the time to investigate, and the dependencies of OTHER code on this initial change would typically cause a lot of work and headaches for both R&D and QA, ultimately making it hard to fix the issue without causing OTHER side-effects.
Ultimately, R&D ‘feels’ less work was done, however if the issue was caught and fixed, the Development Debt is less for the next release, meaning more exciting features . It’s clear how this is a huge benefit of a well run QA organization.
There are other advantages too - once you have visibility you can find opportunities for new features and understand what the customer is really asking for, not what you are assuming they are asking for. You may find that you thought customers always use your product in one way, or one feature that is really important to them. You may also find areas in the development process that if you improve, dramatically improve overall team productivity.
How do you track and report on changes throughout your database environment? Roll out application updates? Comply with database audit and reporting requirements or protect data privacy? Or the real kicker… database performance tanked and it’s because someone tweaked the schema in Production and now YOU have to search through schema archives to find the problem and roll it back… ASAP.
The Smart Way To Manage Database Changes
Please join us for a live webinar event, What’s New in Change Manager 5.1, and find out how to automatically capture schema “snapshots” to quickly identify changes and correct problems in less time; compare live databases or archives to track and report on change; generate change scripts; compare, validate and synchronize schema and data within or across database platforms; and monitor database settings to ensure compliance with regulations and company policies.
And NEW in Change Manager® 5.1, you can:
Embarcadero Change Manager is the only change management tool that covers data, schema, and configuration management, and supports four major DBMS platforms (IBM® DB2® for LUW, Microsoft® SQL Server, Oracle®, and Sybase®) – all from a single interface.
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Analyst and Customer Feedback Highlights Success of New Licensing Model That Provides Software and Database Professionals With a Comprehensive On-Demand Tool Chest
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - July 1, 2009) - Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. today reported strong momentum following the launch of Embarcadero All-Access, the industry's first comprehensive, multi-platform tooling solution that provides software on-demand. Embarcadero All-Access provides application developers, architects and database professionals with cost-effective access to the tools they need to design, build and run software applications and database systems across all of the most common platforms and programming languages.
"At times when IT budgets face considerable constraints, user organizations are more inclined to reduce costs by purchasing suites with broader functionality rather than individual best-of-breed tools. Embarcadero's All-Access initiative is well-timed to appeal to organizations that are looking to reduce costs, as well as simplify their license arrangements," said Rob Hailstone, software infrastructure practice director, Butler Group. "Embarcadero seems to have achieved a nice balance with the simplicity of license management together with sufficient options to appeal to a broad set of user requirements."
John Rosemeyer, manager of Oracle Information Architecture at Orange Lake, a family of premier resorts and country clubs, agrees that All-Access is ideally timed, as IT enters an era in which roles are being broadened and redefined.
"The new DBA role includes architecting databases, supporting databases, gathering business requirements, defining work flow solutions to business and automated processes, programming SQL-based procedures, altering databases, providing performance tuning, and managing the database source code throughout development, test and production environments," said Rosemeyer. "Embarcadero All-Access does an outstanding job of having a suite of tools to enable a DBA to effectively meet the demands of today's IT industry."
As proof of Embarcadero's commitment to meeting the ongoing needs of its customers, the company has already expanded All-Access to include J Optimizer, a new Java profiling and performance optimization product introduced in March. Further additions to the All-Access tool chest are Delphi® 2007 and C++Builder® 2007, which accompany the latest 2009 versions already included in All-Access. With the addition of these popular older editions of Embarcadero development tools, customers who want the benefits of All-Access but are not yet ready to make the move to Delphi 2009 will find All-Access an ideal platform on which to make both this and future transitions.
"We wanted to empower our customers to get far more value for their tools investments, both now, in the current economic climate, and in the future," said Wayne Williams, CEO of Embarcadero Technologies. "Embarcadero All-Access is accomplishing this by changing the way people acquire, access and manage their software tools. Now, anyone in software or database development or management has immediate access to the largest collection of premium tools in the industry, at a price that fits within their budget."
For a limited time, Embarcadero is offering special upgrade pricing for All-Access from a selected set of competitive products, in addition to offering upgrade pricing to existing Embarcadero customers. It is now even easier for users to experience the benefits of All-Access, with a free trial download at: http://downloads.embarcadero.com/free/all_access.
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