Effective efforts defined: A white paper on Agile projects [white paper/QA/agile]

(Per copy)

Requirements management increases the value delivered by critical business projects, aligning information systems with business needs. Yet, requirements management is typically viewed as complex, costly and difficult to implement. Thus, most IT departments limit its use to complex system development projects, limiting an organization’s ability to delivery fast-paced, agile software development projects.

This white paper discusses how to effectively implement requirements management for fast paced software development. Discover how to obtain a valuable return from software projects with comprehensive, agile requirements management. Learn how requirements management can deliver four major interdependent benefits, including:

• Reducing the cost and duration of application development projects
• Increasing the IS value for the business
• Mitigating the IT risks for the business
• Improving IT governance in fast-paced development projects

Link: White Paper: The Benefits of Requirements Management in the Context of Fast Paced Development Projects

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Mobile QA tools (for free) [wireless/protocol analysis]

For some of you out there, and you know who you are…you have that cool job testing wireless platforms. Well here’s a free tool for those who need to monitor network packets, then you can use WireShark.

Very useful for tracking functional test executions, as well as load monitoring during performance tests.

Link:Wireshark