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Software Quality Assurance

ALSO CALLED: QA, Software QA, Software Quality, Quality Assurance, Application Quality, and SQA
DEFINITION: GIGO (garbage in, garbage out) is a concept common to computer science and mathematics: the quality of output is determined by the quality of the input. So, for example, if a mathematical equation is improperly stated, the answer is unlikely to be correct. Similarly, if incorrect data is input to a program,  … 
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A CIO's Playbook for Achieving Software Agility with Scrum
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WHITE PAPER: The pressures of a truly global economy cause today's business to increasingly rely on their ability to produce software as a key competitive advantage. This whitepaper is a "playbook" of ideas about implementing Scrum within an enterprise.
Posted: 14 Aug 2008 | Published: 14 Aug 2008
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How BMC Is Scaling Agile Development
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WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper describes how BMC Software's Infrastructure Management Group transformed their development organization using agile development practices management applications from Rally Software Development.
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SERVICE LISTING: LogiGear offers comprehensive onshore and offshore outsource software testing services uniquely designed to meet your needs, LogiGear is a leader in global software testing and advanced test automation solutions.
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zTestArchitect™ Test Automation Toolset
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SOFTWARE LISTING: zTestArchitect enables your organization to align software development and testing groups, unite test designers, testers and automation engineers, and integrate your onshore and offshore testing teams as a complete automation framework.
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Software Testing 3.0: The Continuing Evolution of Software Testing
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WHITE PAPER: This paper traces the evolution of software testing through its first two phases, discussing its shortcomings. It then presents Software Testing 3.0, and discuses how software testing is at a point where it can exceed management expectations.
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The Business Case for Outsourcing Software Testing to a Separate Vendor
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WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper will explore the single-source, and the multi-source approach to application development, highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of each, and pointing out the distinct advantages that multi-sourcing has over single-sourcing.
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Tools and Techniques for Superior Test Management
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Improving Software Quality to Drive Business Agility
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WHITE PAPER: IDC conducted a survey in 2Q08 to explore current practices in, costs of, and attitudes toward software quality, this paper offers a comprehensive and insightful summary of the survey results.
Posted: 31 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2008
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Model-driven SOA Achieve Higher Productivity Gains throughout the Design Process
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WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper explains the role of modeling in understanding and developing Service Orientated Architecture (SOA). It also applies the results of business planning to the analysis, implementation, development and maintenance of service applications.
Posted: 30 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Nov 2007
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Software Quality Assessment Solution for the Enterprise
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SOFTWARE LISTING: Telelogic Logiscope™ is a software quality assurance (QA) tool that helps increase test coverage by automating code reviews and the identification and detection of error-prone modules for quality assurance and software testing.
Posted: 11 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jul 2008
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SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE DEFINITION (continued): …  the output is unlikely to be informative.

George Fuechsel, an early IBM programmer and instructor, is generally given credit for coining the term. Fuechsel is said to have used "garbage in, garbage out" as a concise way of reminding his students that a computer just processes what it is given. The term is now widely used in computer science classes, IT services and elsewhere. In fact, GIGO is sometimes used to refer to situations in the analog world, such as a faulty decision made … 
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