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September 2009
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How much testing is enough?
Chris Pattinson
– In my experience, determing how much testing time you need in a release is one of the toughest questions in software development planning. How much time do you need to test a yet to be developed product, with nebulous features yet to exist, and also ensure your previous functionality still works at ...
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RAD Studio 2010 Review on Dr. Dobbs
Chris Pattinson
– There is a great public review of RAD Studio 2010 on Dr Dobb's. After a release, I'm always looking forward to seeing if the community notices the feature and quality improvements made by the team - it looks like the team really scored based on the following review comments: ...
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CodeRage 4! September 8 to 11, 2009
Chris Pattinson
– One of the activities I've always loved with previous Borland and now Embarcadero is where development team members present and meet the development community. We've been successfully using the web to host a conference which has high accessibility to 'everyone' around the world, and the fourth such ...
August 2009
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Delphi 2010, C++Builder 2010 and RAD Studio 2010 Quality Report
Chris Pattinson
– RAD Studio 2010, which incldes Delphi 2010, C++Builder 2010 and Delphi Prism , is on it's way to general release in a few weeks. http://www.embarcadero.com/rad-studio-2010/ This years release is packed with a lot of great features, and a focus on usability quality improvements. In addition, the ...
July 2009
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Embarcadero Quality Maturity Model
Chris Pattinson
– In the past couple months, I've been working with a team of 7 quality assurance managers to evaluate and determine a roadmap of QA improvements for their product teams. As part of this effort, I wanted to establish a series of guidelines to measure 'where are we now?' and to know ...
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Did You Know - Embarcadero Beta Page
Chris Pattinson
– It's worth mentioning that Embarcadero has a central Beta application page where you can apply to a number of beta's of products in the works: http://www.embarcadero.com/products/beta_programs.php Come take a look at some of the products under development (under NDA of course).Share This | Email ...
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Quick review of old bugs fixed for Delphi
Chris Pattinson
– David I. had an interesting question for the team - are we fixing enough of our older bugs in the product? Are we neglecting past issues reported by our customers? As a resident quality champion, of course I want to know too :-) So I took a quick query into the bug ...
June 2009
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Why Quality Assurance?
Chris Pattinson
– I've now had almost a decade in the Quality Assurance field of software development, and while all folks understand the importance of testing, the understanding and measuring of the real value of a quality assurance organization can be difficult to determine. From my personal view, a well run ...
April 2009
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New Role - Embarcadero Director of Quality Assurance
Chris Pattinson
– I've been asked to take on a new role in Embarcadero as the Director of Quality Assurance. What a great opportunity to apply what was done for RAD Studio in the past few years for the other Embarcadero products! In the past couple weeks, I travelled around several worldwide sites to ...
November 2008
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Delphi 2009 Resource Summary - Kudos Pawel Glowacki!
Chris Pattinson
– I'd like to give some props to Pawel for great work finding and summarizing excellent references for the latest Delphi 2009 and C++Buider 2009 products, including good starting places to understand the unicode changes. http://blogs.codegear.com/pawelglowacki/2008/11/03/38527 He's provided sections ...
October 2008
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Clemson Beta - new Delphi.NET Solution
Chris Pattinson
– Hi all, We've started the Clemson Beta, which is testing of our new Delphi.NET solution. It's pretty cool, I'm not supposed to say more until Nick officially announces the details. However if you are interested in testing out fully functional beta builds, go here to apply: ...
September 2008
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Delphi and C++ Builder 2009 - Quality Report
Chris Pattinson
– I've been quiet on my blog for about a year, that was a result of work to transition the team from Borland to CodeGear then CodeGear to Embarcadero, work on improving our beta tests, and championing product quality. I kept telling myself I should be blogging more, which I'm sure ...
December 2007
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CodeGear Quality Review 2007
Chris Pattinson
– Since we've just released the December 2007 update for RAD Studio 2007, Delphi 2007 and C++Builder 2007, this seems like an appropriate time to reflect on this years work. (see http://dn.codegear.com/article/37350 for details on the update). First a few statistics: Since January 1, 2007 a total ...
November 2007
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Quality Central November 2007 Revisit
Chris Pattinson
– Quality Central is one of the best methods to formally communicate with our customers. One interesting statistic - 10472 reports have been pushed into RAID (internal bug tracking system) from QC since inception, and 'Closed'. Closed can mean several things, so taking a slice of 'Fixed' and ...
October 2007
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RAD Studio 2007 Quality Discussion, Installer and General Musings
Chris Pattinson
– Every release, I get those release jitters that I'm sure are not unique when putting out that gold image to manufacturing. RAD Studio 2007 has been out for about a month and a half now, and looking in Quality Central and at various forums - overall feedback has been positive. A ...
