On this week’s Quotes of the Week: Testing in a Agile World, 10 Characteristics of a Bad Developer and Mutually Assured Bug Destruction and more…
Testing in a Agile World
“The first item on the agenda should be to change the mindset of the testing team. If they don’t understand the rationale for the change and its underlying concepts, you will end up with a mess – and set them up for failure.” – Aldo Rall, IndigoCube
Adopting Agile has proven difficult for many software development teams according to Aldo Rall of IndigoCube. He argues that while many adopt the principlas of Agile, in practice, it is a bit different. His arguement is back up by a recent survey from IBM of software testers that found although many testing teams are adopting Agile, they are not getting the benefits. Read More here.
A Software Testing Survey
“Only 57% of testers feel they do a good job measuring the value of testing”
At EuroSTAR, we have developed, compiled and are about to publish our own survey of software testers. The survey has recruited over600 software testing practitioners and managers from the European software testing community. This is the first phase of the study with later versions planned. You can request a copy here.
Bad Developer
“I don’t need to test the code, that is the job of the testers.“
Forbes jokingly compiled a list of 10 characteristics of a bad software engineer. Included in it are such jems as the one above as well as profiles of “The Protester” and The “Dictator”. You can read the full list here
Mutually Assured Bugs
“DHS sources told ABC News they think this is no random attack and they fear that the Russians have torn a page from the old, Cold War playbook, and have placed the malware in key U.S. systems as a threat, and/or as a deterrent to a U.S. cyber-attack on Russian systems – mutually assured destruction.”
In something that resembles the storyline from Die Hard 4.0, the Department of Homeland Security’s Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team issued a bulletin last week announcing that a trojan horse bug has been found in many company’s infrastructure. The “BlackEnergy” penetration is believed to have orginated from Russia and has penetrated software that runs much of the nation’s critical infrastructure including oil and gas pipelines, power transmission grids, water distribution and filtration systems, wind turbines and more. Read More here.
ShellShock Not A Bug?
“Security and leading edge software rarely go hand in hand.” – Paul Rubens
The Shellshock bug has featured on these pages before. The bug was found earlier this year and was believed would allow systems built on old software to be vulnerable to hacks. Paul Rubens argues that what was actually a bug now might have been a useful feature when it was built about twenty-five years ago and that building secure software can take many years. Read the full article here.
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