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Get Your Defect-Tracking Database Back on Track When defects are ignored or mismanaged, it can compromise the integrity of the defect-tracking database. When this happens, defects could go unfixed, or code fixes may not be verified by the production release. Before you can resolve a compromised defect-tracking database, you need to know how to recognize one. |
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Can We Ever Find All Bugs? This may not be what testers want to hear, but Ingo Philipp is convinced we can't ever answer the question "Did we find all bugs?" It all comes back to the fact that testing can prove the presence of bugs, but not their absence. Here, Ingo explores how we find and fix bugs, as well as the notion of quality assurance. |
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Stop Hoarding Bugs and Clean Up Your Backlog Many testing organizations have bugs sitting in their bug-tracking tool gathering dust. The issues aren't high-priority enough to fix immediately, but no one wants to close them because they might get around to fixing them eventually. This is a hoarder mentality! You need to organize and declutter your bug backlog. |
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How Bug Bounty Programs Deliver Savings and Security Bug bounty programs abound these days and have been leveraged by many organizations hoping to reduce their security vulnerabilities. Looking more closely at these bug bounty programs, several questions emerge in helping shape an organization’s quality assurance strategy. |
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How to Debug a Software Glitch from 141 Million Miles Away Even code from NASA isn't perfect, as seen by the recent bugs found within their Mars rover Curiosity. What's remarkable is NASA's ability to eliminate the glitches, quickly and over such a great distance. Any downtime could be fatal when dealing with a piece of hardware as technical as Curiosity. |
