Indicators of Useful or Useless Indicators

The Testing Experience magazine published my article about Indicators of Useful or Useless Indicators In its recent issue about metrics.

I am very happy with this article publication for the following reasons: 

• I was able to transform my thoughts that came from my experience, into a context-driven article.
• The publication exposed more of my thoughts and writing to my colleagues within the design center.

Following is an embedded version of the article. I recommend to download the magazine issue itself .



Wishing you a Happy Hebrew New Year שנה טובה ומתוקה,
Issi

Online test magazines

The first magazine I would like to link to is Testing Experience:
http://www.testingexperience.com/

This magazine already has it's 4th issue, and seems to collect articles, which expands the knowledge in many areas. So far, I found in every issue 1 or 2 articles which I found interesting, and expanding my knowledge in new domains of of our profession. The magazine also, has it's news section, and the last one, just announced breaking news on....a new quality testing certification... Hey! is this the new gospel of testing? I don't want to start here a discussion about certifications, but this just seems to me as too much. So for the sake of balance, ill point you to a video from STAREAST 2008, which address this subject , and probably will make you smile:
The Angel and Devil of Software Testing http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=oHtydNQU1f8

The other magazine that I want to review is Quality Matters:
http://www.quality-matters.org/

This magazine has published already it's 1st issue, and seems to concentrate on the foundations of testing. The feature subject of this issue was risk based testing by Rex Black, which is one of the recognized test experts in the industry, allthough too much related to the factory school. The article addressed the foundations of RBT, and could be a good summary of foundations of this approach. So was another article about team development.