Ross Collard - Prospecting for Bugs ( 377 MB, 61:46 min ) Google TechTalks April 28, 2006 video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5423188099670429665
ABSTRACT Testers' ability to identify, assess and prioritize risk is critical to having the right test focus. Objective, quantitative methods for risk assessment generally do not work well. And s ubjective, intuitive methods for risk assessment are derived as much or more from emotion and psychology rather than "logic". A possible new breakthrough is "prospect theory", which won the Nobel Prize in 2004 in Economics. This theory identifies the circumstances under which people are likely to overestimate or underestimate probabilities. It also shows how attitudes about risk affect behavior. The purpose of this presentation is to examine how we can use this work to improve our test effectiveness. I am confident you will find these ideas are applicable to your work, and can provide quick, tangible pay-off for your investment of an hour to hear this presentation.
Ross Collard is with Collard & Company, a Manhattan-based consulting firm which specializes in software quality. A Google search on his name reveals about 100 citations in this area. He has computer science degrees from Caltech and Stanford, and has taught for UC Berkeley and Harvard.
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