Industry and Technology Trends: Why I Think It s Time to Publish This Book

Industry and Technology Trends: Why I Think It's Time to Publish This Book

I began developing these methods in the late 1980s when I worked at Prodigy. They evolved to suit the needs of a fast-paced development environment feeding a large, complex real-time system. They were called the Most Important Tests method, or MITs. MITs quickly became the standard for testing methods at Prodigy, and I began writing and publishing case studies of MITs projects in 1990. I took MITs with me when I left Prodigy in 1993, and it continued to evolve as I tackled more and more testing projects in other industries. I spent most of the last 10 years helping businesses embrace and profit from integrating large systems and the Internet.

The (PowerPoint-based) syllabus that I developed to teach MITs since 1993 is based on the first seven chapters that I wrote for the original book, Software Testing Methods and Metrics. The emphasis then was on client/server testing, not the Internet, and that is reflected in the original chapters.

First offered in 1993, the course has been taught several times each year ever since. I put the original first four chapters on my Web site in 1997. The number of people reading these four chapters has increased steadily over the years. This year some 17,000 visitors have downloaded these chapters. The most popular is Chapter 2, "Fundamental Methods." Because of its popularity and the many e-mail discussions it has sparked, it has been expanded here into Chapter 3: "Approaches to Managing Software Testing," and Chapter 4: "The Most Important Tests (MITs) Method."



Software Testing Fundamentals
Software Testing Fundamentals: Methods and Metrics
ISBN: 047143020X
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 132

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