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Monday, September 06, 2004
How to reduce testing time
From How Long Should the Testing Take?:
From How Long Should the Testing Take?:
Here's what I have noticed from my work with multiple organizations. The groups who want to decrease testing time tend to perform the least proactive work reducing the overall number of defects...Also:
"If you want to reduce testing time, create a low-defect product, test all the way through with a variety of test techniques, and use iterations, so you know at the end of 2-4 weeks where you stand with defects. The lower the number of defects and the more sophisticated your tests, the faster your testing time will be.
- A Measured Response: Useful Metrics to Give Managers Numbers to Back Up Project Hunches
- Testers and Developers Think Differently
- Test Driven Development
Labels: agile
