1. Improves your software testing
Focus on the service/product.
June 12th 2014

2. Changes in software testing
Increased expectations of quality aspects
Increasing system complexity
Increasing competition
Outdated test tools
Need for experts
Quality assurance accounts for up to 80% of development budget

3. Ways forward?
Five simple ways to cover most requirement processes (RR)
Inspection is better than TDD – but costly
Kanban is better than Scrum (50% less lead time, 10% less errors)

4. Ways forward…
Exploratory testing is in many cases better than traditional testing
Test design is secondary to the tester itself
Simple models are nearly equally efficient in predicting errors as advanced models

5. Other results…
Agile methods are not preferred for organizations not ready for it
What is the optimal size for a test group?
Measurement of information density provides good predictions regarding errors
Concepts from information theory (NCD) are applicable in categorizing test cases

6. Examples

7. To empower skills and competence
Software testing in higher education
Certifications (ISTQB etc.)
Other educations and courses
..a need to customize education

8. Barriers to rapid process innovation
..a 20 year gap
The gap for new knowledge to span

9. Increasing complexity and demands of safety, security and reliability is met with..
..having more testers?
The gap for new knowledge to span

10. Speed up innovation capabilities
To provide research to industry in much faster manners than today
Work closer to industry in rapid projects
To statistically quantify improvement procedures – not depend on qualitative assumptions!
Involve people with mandate to change

11. The gap for new knowledge to span

12. Explanea A bridge from academy to the industry
Distilling academic knowledge according to unique industry situations
Focused to pragmatic use – not abundant theory
The Explanea model is applicable to other disciplines of engineering
The gap for new knowledge to span

13. In the Explanea model we believe..
..in having skilled researchers working closer to the industry
..infusing state of art knowledge into our clients’ organizations by engaging key test people, creating intrapreneurial abilities for sustainable process renewal
The gap for new knowledge to span

14. The Explanea way of working
Short and rapid course formats customized to the unique situation of the client’s (Small Private Online Course – SPOC)
Focused projects (SIP)
Co-development in small cross-company groups
Measurement of project impact and further implementation of new knowledge and solutions into the client’s organization
Long-term innovation support
The gap for new knowledge to span

15. Project plan
Currently evaluating first round beta customers (Ericsson, Danfoss, ABB)
In preparation of a new project phase in Sept/Oct
Vision to scale up during 2015
The gap for new knowledge to span

16. Business partners
University partners

17. Improves your software testing
June 11th 2014