Testing and Telephony
• Thursday, September 22, 2011 - Time for another look (not now, but soon)
The SQGNE talk last week was Capers Jones presenting his current findings on the state of software quality practice. I've heard several versions of this talk over the years,and I'm always interested hearing in the latest one: this guy has data to back up his statements about what works and what doesn't. I love data!
Here's the link: http://sqgne.org/presentations/2011-12/Jones-Sep-2011.pdf
Important reminders from that talk: "no single quality method is adequate by itself", and "Inspections + static analysis + testing > 97% efficient" - that's the combination with the biggest bang for the buck.
What it made me think about this year, helped along by a question from a coworker, was certification. One of the items on the "Poor Quality Results" slide was "Informal testing and uncertified test personnel" - Jones thinks certification for testers is a good thing.
OK, some people think certifications (for testers) are good, and other people think they are bad. Some 7 or 8 years ago I looked into getting an ASQ certification. I abandoned the idea when I read through the "body of knowledge" material for the first module, and found myself going "I disagree with that ... and with that ... and with that ...". But hey, things change over time, and we hope they change for the better. Sometime soon I should take another look at the ASQ certification and see if I'm happier with it now. It will be a while though, right now I'm getting acquainted with my new SUT, new tools, new company.
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