Sites of Interest
iTKO has assembled this area to give you starting points on your own journey toward software quality and agility. Finding the right testing, validation and virtualization solution is only a small part of the challenge. Knowledge, discipline, and teamwork will take you the rest of the way.
We know there are plenty of good links out there, so if you see something we should list, send the link and a brief description to webmaster@itko.com.
Quality websites
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Quality-related organizations
Technology Executives Club
iTKO is a community member of Technology Executives Club, the Premier Thought Leadership Community for IT Management. The Technology Executives Club provides seminars, live and on-demand webcasts, whitepapers, and newsletters to help IT and Business Executives stay current and share best practices on Information Technology in the Enterprise. Look for iTKO at upcoming group events.
IEEE Computer Society
The stalwart and well-participated software forum for savvy engineers.
International Function Point Users Group
This consulting-oriented consortium is build upon the Function Point practice of identifying and prioritizing issues based on the business need. Useful if you are on the business or consulting end of software development and want to make and enforce requirements more effectively.
Software Engineering Institute (at Carnegie-Mellon)
Your tax dollars are hard at work here. The U.S. government got sick of paying good money for bad software, so they funded some of the best minds in software to come up with standards they could rely upon. 25 years later, the SEI is still going strong. This group authored the CMMi standards for software development that many companies aspire to attain.
Quality Publications
Software quality is not a new field, but in terms of publishing, it wasn’t usually separated from more generalist areas of software development, such as programming on the back end and usability on the front end.
Agile Journal / CM Crossroads
Sister sites from CMC Media that cater to the XP development crowd, including Agile software methodology, pair programming, scrum, Test-first as well as some software build and lifecycle material.
Application Development Trends
A little more in-depth on both the business and technology requirements of software. Good stuff.
Baseline
Though this Ziff-Davis pub is more of a generalist CIO/IT Director’s guide, each issue we get has plenty of great material on how to keep software functioning according to the business’ needs, on time and on budget. And if that’s not useful material, what is?
Better Software
This is the publishing arm of the Software Quality Engineering group, the team that brings you the StickyMinds.com website. The content in BS is not “BS.” This magazine contains uniformly good, vendor-neutral, practical tips you can use every day from well-known experts in software quality.
CIO Insight
Looks very important on your desktop.
Computerworld
A software generalist website, good for background information and editorials.
eBizQ
Rich site full of interviews, blogs and articles that covers all aspects of enterprise software, from development and testing, to virtualization and how to efficiently manage IT.
Fast Company
Always entertaining and gives you new ideas as well as the current "hype" in business technology as well as other motivational things.
FutureFeeder
This is just a really cool site of new technology you won't regret visiting often.
Harvard Business Review
Looks even more important on your desktop.
InfoWorld
A short but always useful weekly for IT and software pros. Great reviews of software too.
IT Toolbox
We’re not sure what the point of this is, other than the fact that they buy up any IT related term on Google, and you can follow the link here to pick up the sponsored papers/links.
Java Developers’ Journal (JDJ)
SYS-CON remains a definitive source of techniques for Java programmers, among many other technology-specific publications.
Line56
Emerged in the boom and still has useful information for any technology executive or learner.
Loosely Coupled
One of the long-time leading aggregators of useful comment and content on SOA development and integration trends. Worth visiting often.
Methods & Tools
Free e-newsletter providing practical knowledge for software development professionals.
SD Times
The tabloid that is a good read for keeping up on new developments in the software development field.
SearchSoftwareQuality
Rich in original content and current events, this site offers extensive libraries of whitepapers on testing and more.
SearchSOA
Another good news and analysis site from TechTarget, with a good balance of method and solution-oriented material. iTKO is frequently quoted/interviewed in here.
SOA World
Good news and commentary oriented site about the state of service-based architecture - look for iTKO columns and interviews on here, and also recommend visiting.
Software Test & Performance
A good methodology-oriented magazine for software testers, leaning slightly toward the technical side. Don't be surprised if iTKO makes an occasional appearance here. If you are a software quality maven, we highly recommend getting a subscription.
Stickyminds.com
This quality-only website has a wealth of good information. Published by SQE – Software Quality Engineering, this industry group publishes Better Software magazine and hosts several quality events and training seminars across the country.
UseIt.com
Jacob Nielsen’s online journal of usability tips for software design contains many ease-of-use techniques that software vendors could learn from. Including ourselves. And including useit.com.
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