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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, … Definition continues below.

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How to capture performance requirements sponsored by CA WEBCAST: Posted: 14 May 2008 \| When: Available On Demand SUMMARY: Capturing the performance goals in a systematic manner is a pre-requisite for building performance into an application right from the start. The key is asking the right questions so that you can gather specific and measurable performance requirements. TOPICS: Application Performance Management \| Application Performance Management Software \| Functional Requirements \| Software Development Methodologies \| Software Development Tools \| Software Project Management \| Software Quality Assurance \| Web Development

Pre-Flight Builds: What They Are, Why You Should Care and How to Make Them a Reality sponsored by Electric Cloud WEBCAST: Posted: 11 Apr 2008 \| When: Available On Demand SUMMARY: This Webcast discusses the benefits associated with pre-flight builds. Discover how pre-flight builds put a complete software build in the hands of every software developer, allowing them to run code before they ever commit. TOPICS: Code Management \| Software Development Life-Cycles \| Software Development Methodologies \| Software Development Tools \| Software Quality Assurance \| Software Testing

How to maintain high application performance sponsored by CA WEBCAST: Posted: 26 Mar 2008 \| When: Available On Demand SUMMARY: In this webcast, performance management expert Bernd Harzog reviews what you need to do maintain high performance. TOPICS: Application Performance Management \| Application Performance Management Software \| Load Testing \| Software Quality Assurance \| User Experience \| Web Applications Management \| Web Applications Software

Improving Software Development with Object-Oriented Analysis and Design sponsored by Ivar Jacobson Consulting WEBCAST: Posted: 10 Mar 2008 \| When: Available On Demand SUMMARY: This Webcast details methods for optimizing software quality and highlights how Object-oriented analysis and design (OOAD) can be applied in an agile manner. TOPICS: Code Management \| Object-Oriented Programming \| Software Development Lifecycles \| Software Development Methodologies \| Software Development Tools \| Software Quality Assurance

Transaction Visibility: The Key to Effective Application Performance Management sponsored by CA WEBCAST: Posted: 04 Mar 2008 \| When: Available On Demand SUMMARY: This Webcast discusses how to manage the performance and availability of complex, SOA-based applications, including web applications, enterprise portals and Web services. TOPICS: Application Performance Management \| Application Performance Management Software \| Functional Requirements \| QOS \| Software Quality Assurance \| Web Development \| Web Development Tools \| Web Services \| Web Services Management

How Credit Suisse Handles Real World Testing sponsored by IONA Technologies PODCAST: Posted: 25 Feb 2008 \| Premiered: 01 Nov 2007 SUMMARY: Listen to this podcast to learn how Credit Suisse implemented Service-oriented testing and the strategies that enabled successful deployment of service oriented testing. TOPICS: Application Deployment \| Application Life-Cycle Management \| Application Security \| Best Practices \| Performance Testing \| SOA \| Software Quality Assurance \| Software Testing \| Test Results

Measuring and Estimating Software Quality sponsored by Development Models and Methods Learning Guide WEBCAST: Posted: 16 Jul 2007 \| When: Available On Demand SUMMARY: This webcast details a method to effectively measure and estimate software quality before deployment. TOPICS: Debugging \| IT Spending \| Software Development Methodologies \| Software Development Tools \| Software Project Management \| Software Quality Assurance

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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