Improves your software testing

June 12th 2014

Changes in software testing• Increased expectations of quality

aspects• Increasing system complexity • Increasing competition

• Outdated test tools• Need for experts• Quality assurance accounts for up to

80% of development budget

Ways forward?• Five simple ways to cover most requirement

processes (RR)• Inspection is better than TDD – but costly• Kanban is better than Scrum

(50% less lead time, 10% less errors)

Ways forward…• Exploratory testing is in many cases better

than traditional testing• Test design is secondary to the tester itself• Simple models are nearly equally efficient in

predicting errors as advanced models

Other results…• Agile methods are not preferred for

organizations not ready for it• What is the optimal size for a test group?• Measurement of information density provides

good predictions regarding errors• Concepts from information theory (NCD) are

applicable in categorizing test cases

Examples

To empower skills and competence • Software testing in higher

education• Certifications (ISTQB etc.)• Other educations and courses• ..a need to customize education

Barriers to rapid process innovation• ..a 20 year gap

Increasing complexity and demands of safety, security and reliability is met with..

..having more testers?

Speed up innovation capabilities• To provide research to industry in much faster

manners than today• Work closer to industry in rapid projects• To statistically quantify improvement

procedures – not depend on qualitative assumptions!

• Involve people with mandate to change

Explanea• A bridge from academy to the industry• Distilling academic knowledge according to

unique industry situations• Focused to pragmatic use – not abundant

theory

• The Explanea model is applicable to other disciplines of engineering

In the Explanea model we believe..• ..in having skilled researchers working closer to

the industry

• ..infusing state of art knowledge into our clients’ organizations by engaging key test people, creating intrapreneurial abilities for sustainable process renewal

The Explanea way of working• Short and rapid course formats customized to

the unique situation of the client’s (Small Private Online Course – SPOC)

• Focused projects (SIP)• Co-development in small cross-company groups• Measurement of project impact and further

implementation of new knowledge and solutions into the client’s organization

• Long-term innovation support

Project plan• Currently evaluating first round beta customers

(Ericsson, Danfoss, ABB)• In preparation of a new project phase in Sept/Oct

• Vision to scale up during 2015

Business partners

University partners

Improves your software testing

June 11th 2014