During system test, it's usually very hard to gauge progress. Most teams are still using the percent complete (how much have you tested) to report progress. While that's easy, that usually does not tell you correctly where you are. Today I am starting to use the

So questison of the day over lunch is my standard: what would you do if you are rich. Most people said they have specific things they will do, like travel the world, ski, ride bike. Me? I will probably be funding other people's dreams. I think it will

After day 1, we are doing great. 3 concurrent threads of work was going on in the room. We were getting the database ready, regression testing the code, and migrating data. Remember, J-RAT's entry criteria is that System Testing is done. So we need to make sure the

So there you go. I'm starting to Blog about the J-RAT process. Two days ago we started our new J-RAT process. Putting 10 people in one room (2 developers, 1 DBA, 3 Testers, 2 BAs and 1 accountant, 1 Architect) and start intensive, business centric testing.