At the company I work for, there has recently been a mandate that all 'highly visibile' boolean logic must be expressed in Disjunctive Normal Form. So for instance (though the concept is language...

Testing can be mainly classified into manual and automated testing. With regard to this certain questions come to mind. They include: What is the basic difference between the two types of...

How to you simulate > 120 concurrent users using a Load Test Framework such as JMeter? Real concurrency, as far as I understand, would be possible if I would use 120 servers or 120 CPU cores. How...

What defect rate can I expect in a C++ codebase that is written for an embedded processor (DSP), given that there have been no unit tests, no code reviews, no static code analysis, and that compili...

We are always trying to improve on our ability to apply our skills to solve a problem. Software engineering principles have significantly helped my ability to write higher quality code. This ...

I am working on a thesis about measuring quality of a product. The product in this case is a website. I have identified several quality attributes and measurement techniques. One quality attr...

Are there some standards that you consider to be so obvious that they would be assumed to be in any spec? For example, should hitting escape always cancel a form? Should double clicking a column ...

I am listening to a panel discussion where a person mentions their 'engine' is not 1.3 but now is 1.7 million lines of code. That frightens me. I can't imagine that number of lines, the amoun...

I'm working on a quite large project, a few years in the making, at a pretty large company, and I'm taking on the task of driving toward better overall code quality. I was wondering what kin...

We have some interviews coming up whereby we're recruiting for a quality assurance role. The purpose of developers being involved is to understand whether hte person will work well with the develop...

I like my code being in order, i.e. properly formatted, readable, designed, tested, checked for bugs, etc. In fact I am fanatic about it. (Maybe even more than fanatic...) But in my experienc...

Has anyone done any comparisons on static code analysis tools available to Linux? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the following tools: Lintian, Sparse, Splint, RATS, Using the -Wa...

What are signs that software is dying? How does a developer find early warnings to save a piece of software from dying? From user perspective, I think it is pretty clear - What they can ...

I m looking to write some quality C code. Can someone point me to some articles , websites..whatever I need something with examples. I have already seen and read K&R C book. But times h...

One of our developers is continually writing code and putting it into version control without testing it. The quality of our code is suffering as a result. Besides getting rid of the develop...