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Archive for November, 2009
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Checking is not testing, testing is not checking
Posted on November 6, 2009 | 2 CommentsToday at the Oredev conference in Malmo, James Marcus Bach suggested renaming a large part of what is now called tests to checks. Bach said there is a big difference between a conscious process of questioning and evaluating a product and almost mechanical rule-based verifications. These two things are different... -
How to make money selling iPhone games
Posted on November 5, 2009 | No CommentsMichael Schade, CEO of Fishlabs, talked today at Oredev on strategies for maximising revenue from iPhone games. Citing research to Mobilegamesdb, PinchMedia and Appsfire, he said that $900M was paid out to developers from AppStore last year and that the estimate is that this figure will surge to $2.8b in... -
Efficiency is the enemy of effectiveness
Posted on November 4, 2009 | 4 CommentsDan North gave a very inspiring talk at the Oresund Developer conference today, titled Our obsession with efficiency. His presentation focused on perceptions of efficiency and pitfalls of applying wrong efficiency models to software development. efficiency. Most efficiency is measured as budget/revenue, effort, time or activity and improvement efforts focus... -
QUPER model for better requirements
Posted on November 4, 2009 | 2 CommentsToday at the Oresund Developer conference, Bjorn Regnell presented the QUPER model, a very interesting way to think about specifying non-functional requirements. QUPER stands for Quality Performance and in the QUPER language Quality represents all the “ilities”. According to Regnell, the most difficult requirements are the ones related to quality.... -
Accomplishing more by doing less
Posted on November 4, 2009 | 4 CommentsOresund developer conference 2009 started today in Malmo, with 120 speakers planned to take the stage over three days and 8 tracks per day. This year’s theme is efficiency. Marc Lesser opened the conference with a keynote titled Accomplishing more by doing less. Doing more by doing less sounds contradictory,...
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