Acute Perception Of How Network Marketing Software Has Changed How We Acquire Leads

Technology has definitely changed how things are done. Everything from paying bills to running a business can now be done via the Internet. When an entrepreneur is looking to build his or her business, he or she needs to understand how network marketing software has changed how we acquire leads. Organization, whether through the Internet or not, is key to the success of any company.

The MLM industry has grown from the 1950s origins with Tupperware parties and Mary Kay Cosmetics leading the way. The original was Amway. They spearheaded the method that has turned this into a multi-billion dollar business model. By obtaining contacts through friends and family, a marketer is able to utilize the network system to grow their business through sales and new marketing recruits.

The old method was to provide a business presentation to anyone who was interested and try to get them to join through both product purchase and starting their own business. For traditional bu sinesses, the yellow pages quickly became a source of revenue as the companies used the targeted ads that were delivered to every home as a way to put the company front and center.

The Internet has given opportunities to expand and grow the company beyond city and regional boundaries. Through technology a company is able to provide products and services on a global level. This growth potential is through the volume of individuals that potentially will view the website with the products displayed. Organizing these contacts is where the hard part comes in.

Through social media, the ability to grab more contacts quickly has become a growing trend in network marketing. The amount of information that had to be collected through the old methods is still required, but with so many potential contacts, the business owner has to be able to organize electronically or he or she will quickly become overwhelmed with the volume.

There is lead generating software that utilizes the Internet to garner contacts that are specifically interested in the products that are being marketed. The leads can come from a business owners own social media accounts or f rom other sites that generate the leads based on interest. This information is then ported into the software for the owner to make daily contacts through email, phone calls, or other means.

When the information makes it to the software, the business owner can track the contacts through email, phone calls, and other methods. As long as the contacts are being made, the software is able to continue to do what is needed to help the owner stay organized. Using this method of organization, a marketer is able to efficiently manage every contact and turn them into great leads.

Since the revolution of information created by the Internet, contacts can be accrued through online venues with ease. The ability to use these contacts happens by organizing the information in a way that is useful. If contacts are interested in email, electronic newsletters, blog postings, or other information distributions the owner must take advantage before the contact lists go stale. Using so ftware to organize the contacts makes it much easier for an owner to know who and when contacts were made.

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Make Things Easier For Yourself – Get Network Marketing Software

Network marketing is fast becoming a popular choice for augmenting one's often meager income. The primary draw for it is the fact that it takes little effort on the daily basis, meaning that it can very easily be run in parallel with conventional work. Simply put, you keep your day job, and have an online marketing business running more or less automatically. As if it was not already easy enough, independent software developers have released network marketing software programs.

Saying that network marketing is easy kind of undervalues just how much work you actually need to put into it. It takes active effort to get it started, the amount of which varies on the business model that you are building the business on. Once set up, if you put only a modicum of work into it then you can expect only small returns. Successful network marketers put real thought, work, and science into it even if it is only an hour or two every day. The most successful network marketers use the software programs written expressly for their purposes to maximum effect.

What kinds of software are there for network marketing though? Aside from web page development tools for marketing websites, and feed skimmers for automatic blog updates, what other computer programs are available for the budding and the veteran network marketers?

Well for those who do their business on popular social networking sites, there are programs that can automatically search for people who may be interested in connecting to you, based on given criteria. There may even be auto-inviters, taking out most of the grunt work for network expansion. The capabilities of such programs are strongly limited by public APIs (Application Programmer Interfaces) released by the social network owners, so a general statement cannot be made about them.

What may prove most useful to network marketers are statistics compilers. These neat little programs can monitor the traffic on your website. Depending on the power of the program you can get anything from just basic visitor counts to visits and percentages for specific sections of your website. When coupled with smart marketing choices and innovative positive changes, you can expect to increase your profits from network marketing.

Network marketing software can make things so much easier (and profitable) for you as a network marketer. If you want to make some serious money from network marketing, then do consider investing in such software programs.

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Network Marketing Software Basics

If you are involved in a complex or even a simple global business then you need to take a look at network marketing software to automate and integrate the systems at your business. But, with so many solutions available, where do you start? Here are a few network marketing software basics for you to consider.

First of all, the main purpose of network marketing software is make your business as automated as possible. It does this by acquiring and passing data along in order for the company to simply communicate better. In one quick peek every person in your company can see what is happening across ever division. Are sales up? Inventory low? All this and more can be acquired with the click of a mouse if you have the right network marketing software in place.

When it comes to organizations with a multi level or affiliate based sales force, network marketing software can quickly calculate profits and losses. Advertising campaigns can be tabulated and valuated easi ly for optimum performance. And, any commissions are calculated automatically and online to provide a fair view to all. In fact, the worst thing a company can do is get a reputation for not paying affiliates fairly. And, with network marketing software the veil of secrecy is removed which creates trust amongst your team.

Good network marketing software should be able to handle affiliate commissions multi levels deep. Some systems offer up to 15 levels of network marketing support and any good software should also calculate rank adjustments on the fly. Most of the time this occurs at a set interval each month or week and for most businesses this is sufficient.

Do you need to coordinate sales in one country and distribution in another? If so, then you need to look for network marketing software that can not only handle complex shipping needs but often local and state tax needs as well. With the new tax rules it is vital that your network marketing software can handle the complex and ever changing regulations.

As you can see, network marketing software can be a powerful addition to your arsenal. And, if you are serious about launching your company around the globe then this tool is a must. While there are many manufacturers out there you must assure that the network marketing so ftware you choose meets your goals not only today but for the future as well. Good luck!

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Network Marketing Software - How To Choose The Right Program

It can be more of a struggle to find the right network marketing software than it is to use the old methods of MLM prospecting. One simple search can leave you absolutely frustrated by the unending number of offers for network marketing software. Almost all the offers make guarantees of wild fortunes by using the software they created that made themselves rich. I must admit that I am quite skeptical of something that promises to create money at the flip of a switch. After all, if it were that simple, wouldn't everybody be doing it?

Network marketing software that is being offered to the MLM community is most often a generic product that can be used for any product or opportunity. The prices can range from around $100 all the way up to $4,000. The more expensive network marketing software that is offered includes all sorts of professionally written scripts, pages, and letters. You simply have to push a couple of buttons and the software runs itself. Sounds too go od to be true doesn't it? Yup, it's too good to be true. And its a waste of money in my opinion.

You might as well go to the store and buy some bananas. Hire a couple of chimpanzees to flip the switches so that you can take that vacation you've always dreamed of. I assure you that your prospects will see right through your generic network marketing software and not get to be exposed to you. You must understand that if you buy fully automatic network marketing software, you are marketing the same exact cookie cutter information that everyone else is that purchased the software. Prospects attach themselves to individuals for a myriad of reasons. The only possible way to be profitable is to be yourself. People just don't like other people who are fake. The best way to be fake at your network marketing business on the internet and repel your prospects is to buy replicated network marketing software.

Now, before you think I'm mad, I believe that the use of c omputer programs is 100% essential to developing a strong MLM business. You need to make your business unique to you and generic programs just don't do that. The greatest success can be achieved by utilizing a combination of programs available on the internet. Most of them are free.

The most important way to figure out what software to use in your MLM business is to align yourself with strong leaders who have gone down this road before. By attaching yourself to successful people, you can learn what combination of software is right for you and your organization.

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Applied Software Project Management Book Review

It’s not often that a software project management book comes along that is practical, easy to read and stacked full of ready to use process scripts. Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene have done just that with recent book Applied Software Project Management.

There are too many books about software project management or software engineering which are dry, overly complex and boring, but this book is not one of them. It was a joy to read because their style of writing is clear without being simplistic and the authors describe things in just the right amount of detail. It seems they understand their audience and set out to write in an extremely helpful and practical way. They have certainly achieved this.

Part one of the book covers tools and techniques that can be applied on projects. Project planning, estimation, scheduling, reviews, requirements, design and programming and testing each have their own chapter. Part two is about using project management effectively and has chapters on understanding change, management and leadership, managing an outsourcing project and process improvement.

A clear thread throughout the book is a description of the typical problems software project teams face – inadequate requirements, managing changes, lack of quality assurance at each stage in a project, endless testing and bug-fixing cycles, tensions and misunderstandings between the software engineers and business users. None of these problems are technical in nature, but are organisational and managerial. Stellman & Greene offer practical advice to solve these problems based upon their experience on similar projects.

Stellman & Greene certainly appear to know a lot about problems that face software teams. As early as the introduction they describe the need to overcome chronic problems and this theme is continued throughout the book. For each problem, there is always at least one proposed solution. For example, they describe a common scenario whereby senior managers do not trust the estimates of the technical team, somehow believing that the technical team are deliberately over-estimating in order to give themselves some slack time. Their proposed solution is to involve these managers in the estimation process so they can see the estimates being made in a transparent and systematic fashion. They then go on to describe in detail how to run a Wideband Delphi estimation session and provide examples of templates and documents that can be used during such sessions. They also provide a valuable process script for teams to follow.

Subsequent chapters cover planning, scheduling, reviews, requirements, design and testing. Whilst most of these chapters cover each topic in reasonable detail, the section on design is lacking in detail and provides no description about what kind of design deliverables might be produced nor any detailed description of what these design deliverables might contain. This is in contrast to the requirements chapter which contains process scripts for requirements elicitation and analysis as well as a detailed description of use cases and software requirements specifications documents.

Another nice aspect to the book is the checklists that appear after dealing with one of the main project management or software engineering topics. Checklists are important quality assurance techniques that the authors rightly point out should be used throughout software projects as a way of catching errors early. For example, if a checklist applied to the software requirements specifications catches the fact that a critical requirement is missing or ambiguous, then the error can be corrected during the analysis stage. The authors explain that by catching and fixing errors early, the cost is small compared with the cost of fixing errors found later in a project. Their emphasis on quality assurance techniques being applied throughout the project with examples of checklists to apply is therefore very practical and useful.

The authors might want to reconsider some of the examples they use. They describe the process of refactoring code in order to make it more maintainable and use an example of some Java code which they gradually refactor over several iterations. At the end of this process they say why refactoring would be applicable in situations where code is spaghetti-like. This is fine, except they use an example of very un-spaghetti-like Java code to refactor. By doing this it looks to me that they fall into a common programmers trap of code beautification where programmers spend time from the schedule iteratively improving code that works just fine in order to write the ‘perfect’ code, class or object. I’ve seen this happen on projects where there simply wasn’t the time in the schedule to allow this, and it certainly didn’t bring any additional business benefits to the stakeholders. However this is a minor gripe.

I would have liked to have seen more pages devoted to risk management. Time and again, not managing risks is cited as a reason why projects fail. The authors do describe risk management in a cursory way, yet the book would benefit from a better description of how and why risk management should be done throughout the project, not just in the early stages of project planning.

One thing I thought the book lacked was a detailed look at iterative methods. The implicit assumption throughout is that the software project should follow the waterfall method. I would disagree. There have been some important alternatives to the waterfall method which have been developed over the last 20 years most notably those based upon iterative approaches. The main downfall with the waterfall approach is it’s assumption that everything about requirements is known at the beginning of a project.

Iterative approaches on the other hand assume that requirements will change during the project either because users gain a better understanding of what they need, or because of changes to the business environment. Based upon this assumption, iterative methods are designed to better manage this changing environment. With waterfall approaches, changes in requirements often require the project to revisit earlier stages with a corresponding increase in costs and effort. The authors spend barely a page on the Rational Unified Process (RUP) and the authors should look more closely into how their practical advice and processes might be used on alternative iterative approaches to the waterfall approach.

Finally, I think the book tried to be too broad by appealing to three different groups of people. Firstly, part one is aimed at those involved in a software team (project managers, analysts, programmers and testers). Part two is aimed at consultants hired to improve project management practices and project managers who need to manage software outsourcing projects. The book would have been better had it focused solely on those involved in the software team.

The penultimate chapter dealing with managing an outsourcing project is dealt with in a cursory way almost as if the authors felt they needed to mention it because outsourcing is such a business priority these days. The final chapter dealing with process improvement is also too short to deal effectively with such a large topic. Separate books dealing solely with these issues would have been more appropriate.

Not withstanding these points, this book is an excellent guide for those people involved in software projects, both project managers and technical team members alike. They will find much they can apply directly on their own projects.

I would recommend this book to anyone who works on a software development team because the book has so much practical advice to help people improve their capability to deliver quality software. Come to think of it, I would also recommend it to senior managers of companies who have a negative view of their own software development teams. Perhaps then senior managers might understand why committing resources to process improvement is one of the best investments they can make.

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I-Phone 5 gossip roundup

In a big change from the previous three events, Apple's 2011 Worldwide Developers Conference didn't reveal new iPhone hardware. Sure, attendees got details of iOS 5 at the June 6 keynote address, but true iPhone fans also left the session without any hint of what a new handset might offer or when it would arrive.

With Apple devices in particular, the rumor mill tends to kick into high gear in the absence of any official announcement. And that's certainly been the case with the iPhone 5. The first gossip started to trickle in even as the iPhone 4 went on sale last year, but as summer has droned on that trickle has become a flood. Some of the rumors contradict each otherone camp suggests a minor update with an iPhone 4S, while another predicts a big update with an iPhone 5but disagreement, after all, often is what the rumor mill is all about. And since conflicting information can be hard to track, we offer this handy timeline of iPhone 5 rumors so far in 2011. W e'll add to it as we go along, and please let us know if we've left any juicy tidbits out.

August 12
iPhone 5 mockups
Apple news and rumor site MacRumors commissioned CiccareseDesign to create mockups of the iPhone 5 based on the original leaked case designs. The renderings show a sleek handset with a 4-inch display and elongated Home button.

Apple prepping iPhone reveal for September 7 event?
According to Japanese Web site Kodawarisan, Apple is planning a media event for September 7 where it will unveil its new iPod lineup and perhaps the iPhone 5. But before you clear all appointments for September 7, another report by AppleNApps says the company will hold a separate event for the occasion, where Apple will not only introduce the iPhone 5 but also a cloud-based iPhone.

August 4
China Telecom to get two new iPhones?
A report by China-based Sohu.com says Apple and China Telecom have reached a "preliminary a greement" to start selling the iPhone before the end of October. And it's not just any iPhone, it's rumored to be the iPhone 5 alongside a "simplified" iPhone 4.

August 3
10 million handsets in September
Taiwian's DigiTimes says that Pegatron will produce 10 million iPhone 5 units. According to an unnamed source, the handsets will ship to Apple in September, which would pave the way for a release any time after that.

August 2
iPhone 5 out for testing
The Guardian (U.K.) reports that wireless carriers have received highly secure boxes containing iPhone 5s that the operators are using to test network compatibility.

August 1
No vacations for you
Gizmodo cites an e-mail allegedly from an AT&T employee, which says that the carrier is denying any vacations requested during the last two weeks of September "due to an event blackout." According to the employee, the only other times vacations were denied in the past were during iPhone release periods.

Or maybe in October
Going the other direction, a story on AllThingsD quotes a source "with knowledge of the plans" who says, "I don't know why AT&T's calling for all hands on deck those weeks, but it's not for an iPhone launch." Instead, the source says that the next iPhone will come in October.

July 28
A white iPhone 4S
In a rather convoluted tale, MacRumors highlighted a forum post from Vietnamese site Tinhte that claims to have a new version of the iPhone 4. Differences between the new version and the current handset are few, but Tinhte says it's a bit faster, it weighs less, and it has a plastic shell instead of glass.

4 million iPhones in September
China Times reports that Apple will produce 4 million new iPhones for release in the second week of September.

July 27
A new case for a new design
U.K. blog Mobile Fun receives new iPhone c ase designs from two manufacturers. They point to a major redesign that includes a larger screen and home button, and a curved back.

July 26
AT&T and Apple get to work
MacRumors reports that Apple is bringing back former employees to work part-time between August 15 and September 15. Though that time period coincides with the back-to-school season, it also falls within the long-rumored early September iPhone release window. Also, according to Boy Genius Report, AT&T is preparing its employees for more foot traffic at its stores in September. A source told the blog that the carrier has asked its managers and employees to finish any current training as soon as possible.

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? iPhone 5: 20 most-wanted features

July 13
Now hiring for an August iPhone After some clever detective work, CNET UK finds a job posting repeated throughout the United Kingdom that asks for "Apple iPhone Sales Specialists" to work in Apple retail stores. The temporary positions would last from mid-August through the end of October and would be for what the recruiter describes as "an exciting project."

July 6
Suppliers get their orders
Anonymous sources tell The Wall Street Journal that Apple has asked suppliers to build 25 million units of its next iPhone by August for a third-quarter launch.

July 5
15 million in September
DigiTimes reports that Apple has placed an order for 15 million iPhone 5s for a September release.

July 1
Both an iPhone 4 and an iPad 3
DigiTimes says that suppliers are gearing up to help Apple produce millions of units of both an iPhone 5 and an iPad 3 for an October release.

June 29
A modest update
BMO Capital analyst Keith Bach man claims in a note to investors that Apple will introduce just an iPhone 4S model in September. The iPhone 4S would include only modest feature upgrades and the design would be unchanged.

June 27
Two new iPhones to come
Deutsche Bank analyst Chris Whitmore predicts that Apple will introduce two iPhones later this year. The first will be a full next-generation handset (most likely an iPhone 5), while the second will be a revamped iPhone 4 (probably called an iPhone 4S) that Apple will target to customers on prepaid cell phone plans.

A third-quarter release
Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty said that Apple will start "aggressively" making the next iPhone in August and launch the handset late in the third quarter of this year. Huberty made the remarks after a trip to Taiwan where she presumably met with Apple suppliers.

June 24
A brighter flash
DigiTimes says the iPhone 5 will have a dual-LED flash.

June 22
Again, in September
Bloomberg reports that the new iPhone will have a faster A5 processor, an 8-megapixel camera, and support for iOS 5. The new handset will sport a design similar to the iPhone 4s and will be released in September to coincide with iOS 5s debut. On a related note, Bloomberg's source also repeats a rumor that Apple is developing a cheaper iPhone for developing countries.

June 21
An iPhone 5 in full September
The Boy Genius Report predicts that Apple will announce the fully revamped iPhone 5 in early August with a release date later in the month. If true, that timing would bend from tradition, given that Apple usually holds an iPod-themed event in September.

A tear drop' design
Photos of a brand-new tapered or "tear drop" design also resurface that day.

May 23
A curved display
DigiTimes suggests that the iPhone 5 will have a curved glass screen like the Samsung Nexu s S' "Contour" design. DigiTimes also says that Apple has bought 200 or 300 glass-cutting machines to be used by glassmakers.

May 19
A global iPhone for Verizon
While speaking at the Reuters Global Technology Summit, Verizon Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo says that Big Red will carry the next iPhone and that it will "operate in as many countries as AT&T's global iPhone." Shammo's comments also suggest that the device won't have LTE.

May 18
An iPhone 4S
DigiTimes chimes in on the iPhone 4S side with a report that Apple will release an upgraded, but not redesigned, handset in September.

May 13
Small changes, but on all carriers
Jefferies & Co. analyst Peter Misek says the next iPhone will show only incremental changes and will lack support for 4G LTE networks. Besides a few cosmetic tweaks, he predicts better cameras, an A5 dual-core processor, and support for HSPA+ networks. Though he says the new device could land at all four major U.S. carriers beginning in September, Misek likens the upgrade to what we saw from the iPhone 3G to the 3GS.

April 19
A5 processor and a bigger camera
Concord Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo predicts that the device will get an A5 processor and a much-improved 8-megapixel rear camera and that it will be released in October or November.

A September release
Reuters follows a different track with a report that Apple will begin production of the phone in July for a September release.

April 13
Suppliers still in the dark
DigiTimes writes that part suppliers in Taiwan still don't know Apple's needs for the handset. What's more, the outlet also says that production of iPhone 4 displays is still going strong.

April 11
Trouble with suppliers
AppleInsider quotes an Avian Securities note to investors, which suggests that production will start in Sep tember. According to the note, the latest information is "consistent with other findings the organization has heard in recent months." What's more, another rumor mentions that Apple is taking its time finding enough parts suppliers.

April 7
A bigger display, part four
A new Apple patent application depicts a screen that's built into the area surrounding the traditional touch screen. This could free up space on the main display, and open up new directions for developers.

March 28
An October release
A Japanese blog reports that because Apple is behind schedule on securing parts, the iPhone 5 launch could be pushed to October. The blog also says the company is deciding whether to change the back of the iPhone from glass to metal.

March 22
NFC, larger display, and a new antenna
China Times claims the iPhone 5 will have a slightly larger screen, a Near Field Communications (NFC) chip, an A5 processor, and a tweaked antenna design to address attenuation. The release date is only set as "later this year."

NFC confirmed
The same day, The New York Times confirms that future iPhones will have an NFC chip.

March 14
No NFC
The Independent says that NFC won't make it into the new phone. Instead, the newspaper says, Apple plans to introduce its own mobile payment system next year.

March 11
A bigger display, part three
Reseller iDealsChina posts a "mold engineering" drawing that vendors use to develop iPhone accessories. The drawing shows a handset with an iPhone 4-like design but with a larger display.

March 9
A5 processor, part two
In a deep dive of the new iOS 4.3 code, Apple developers found signs that Apple may add an A5 dual-core processor in the next iPhone version. That would put the handset on par with the iPad 2s processing power.

March 7
Looking like the iPad
Design is the focus of this rumor, which suggests that Apple will ditch the glass backing on the iPhone 4 for a metal backing, revamp the antenna, and add tapered ends. The end result will be something like the iPad.

February 28
A bigger display, part two
iDealsChina posts a photo of an iPhone 5 front bezel that shows a larger display.

February 15
A5 processor
The A5 chip rumor is raised again when DigiTimes reports that Apple is outsourcing the production of the processor, which will be based on the ARM Cortex A9 design.

February 14
A bigger display
Speculation builds that the new handset will offer a 4-inch, "edge-to-edge" display. The reports suggest that the move would be a direct response to the display design of many Android devices.

Slide-out keyboard
We also hear that the iPhone 5 could offer a slide-out keyboard or that it could just offer longer battery life and a better camera.

January 14
No home button
An anonymous Apple source told the Boy Genius Report that both the iPad 2 and the next-generation iPhone would lose their home buttons in favor of gesture-based commands that would be part of iOS 4.3.

iPhone 5 gossip roundup

In a big commute from the preceding threesome events, Apple's 2011 Worldwide Developers Discussion didn't discover new iPhone instrumentality. Careful, attendees got info of iOS 5 at the June 6 keynote accost, but apodeictic iPhone fans also leftmost the session without any impart of what a new telephone strength furnish or when it would arrive.

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Testing Lead to Preventive Measure

Why testing is important for any product? Everybody knows about it but ignores it intentionally, especially when change is minor. Normally, people assume that for small changes why we should spend so much time on testing. The reason is, we are using so many tools and technologies available in the market without even knowing 20% of its usage and implication. Do we really aware of these tools being passed all the testing hurdles? Do we really understand the limitations? Do we understand internal complexity of it? Do we analyze if it would be fit for our project? Even though, if, it is known to the architect/designer, is this knowledge pass down to the developer level? The answer is NO!!!!!

That is reason why I would suggest having more review & testing time than earlier.

Testing team should be completely different from development team and directly reporting to client. That way, client can ensure correctness and completeness of development. It is a difficult thing to convince service industry, but, client should make themselves aware of these facts.

Software testing is to ensure the business and technical requirement is being met based on the test data and controlled as well as uncontrolled operating conditions.

Software testing is a process of creating test cases based on requirement (both business & technical) and run it under conditions to see the expected results. The result in software testing is either pass or fail. You can compare this to your exams!!!!! It is the examination time for development team.

There various methods that can be used for software product. But, the methods should be chosen based on following criteria: 1. Type of project/product (Development, Maintenance, Support,) 2. Size of the project/product 3. Type of talent in the team Testing is a major contributor in deciding on preventive action to be taken.

Companies normally put good amount of money on quality, six sigma, CMM assessment but one thing that they forget is all these processes will work perfectly when you have strong review & testing team/process. Unless, you understand every possible issue, small or big, there is no way you can prevent it in future.

I remember one incident when we were developing a client based product. This was the time when we were hardcore developers. We have developed it with solid design (using OOPs methodology, those days it was bigger achievement) and used all the robust objects under VC++. The product got developed and I was assigned to do the testing of the product. I did the testing and passed it. However, one of my friends had some doubt on this and sat with me for another round of testing. We have tested this product by running the same application again and again. After testing it 14th time, there is an object in the menu got disappear!! Subsequently, for each cycle of testing objects are getting disappeared

The problem was we release an object which is created by us, however, as per the guideline this object will also get released by compiler as well.

You know, what the preventive measure is for this..Why testing is important for any product? Everybody knows about it but ignores it intentionally, especially when change is minor. Normally, people assume that for small changes why we should spend so much time on testing. The reason is, we are using so many tools and technologies available in the market without even knowing 20% of its usage and implication. Do we really aware of these tools being passed all the testing hurdles? Do we really understand the limitations? Do we understand internal complexity of it? Do we analyze if it would be fit for our project? Even though, if, it is known to the architect/designer, is this knowledge pass down to the developer level? The answer is NO!!!!!

That is reason why I would suggest having more review & testing time than earlier.

Testing team should be completely different from development team and directly reporting to client. That way, client can ensure correctness and completeness of development. It is a difficult thing to convince service industry, but, client should make themselves aware of these facts.

Software testing is to ensure the business and technical requirement is being met based on the test data and controlled as well as uncontrolled operating conditions.

Software testing is a process of creating test cases based on requirement (both business & technical) and run it under conditions to see the expected results. The result in software testing is either pass or fail. You can compare this to your exams!!!!! It is the examination time for development team.

There various methods that can be used for software product. But, the methods should be chosen based on following criteria: 1. Type of project/product (Development, Maintenance, Support,) 2. Size of the project/product 3. Type of talent in the team Testing is a major contributor in deciding on preventive action to be taken.

Companies normally put good amount of money on quality, six sigma, CMM assessment but one thing that they forget is all these processes will work perfectly when you have strong review & testing team/process. Unless, you understand every possible issue, small or big, there is no way you can prevent it in future.

I remember one incident when we were developing a client based product. This was the time when we were hardcore developers. We have developed it with solid design (using OOPs methodology, those days it was bigger achievement) and used all the robust objects under VC++. The product got developed and I was assigned to do the testing of the product. I did the testing and passed it. However, one of my friends had some doubt on this and sat with me for another round of testing. We have tested this product by running the same application again and again. After testing it 14th time, there is an object in the menu got disappear!! Subsequently, for each cycle of testing objects are getting disappeared

The problem was we release an object which is created by us, however, as per the guideline this object will also get released by compiler as well.

You know, what the preventive measure is for this..

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