News from the Field

Approach to agile development (March 31, 2012)
The software development life cycle is like a puzzle: Each piece fits into the other in order to create a complete product.

Recipe for a good test case (March 19, 2012)
I have seen as many variations of test case design as I've seen projects. Naturally, the circumstances of any given project must be taken into consideration when creating test plans, test cases, and the testing infrastructure. In this article, we'll highlight the characteristics that are typical...

Medical Device Manufacturer Gets New Sales and Inventory Tool (January 6, 2012)
As their annual sales continued to grow steadily, this major medical device manufacturer found an urgent need for a sophisticated system to support consisting and configurable pricing, inventory management, workflow approval chains, and business reporting. They turned to WinMill Software. Read ful...

Major International Bank Gets Complex Pricing System (January 6, 2012)
When one the largest international banks needed an online sales system to support their corporate purchasing card division, they called WinMill Software.  With our deep roots in the financial sector, our technical expertise and our agile development approach, WinMill was the perfect fit for an ...

Tips for Automated Testing of New Software Product Releases, Part II (December 24, 2011)
To parameterize or not to parameterize? When designing and building TestComplete automated test scripts, it is a generally accepted best practice that you should replace any static input values with dynamic parameters. For example, if you record a "login" script, you should ensure that the user...

Project Estimating Using PERT (December 5, 2011)
When determining task estimates for a project, fixed values are generally the norm applied to the project plan. A project manager will ask a programmer how long it will take to complete task X and the response will be H hours and this will be added to the plan. A project plan is really an estimat...

Tips for Automated Testing of New Software Product Releases, Part I (December 5, 2011)
TestComplete is a little bit like chess. The basics of test script development with the tool are easy to learn, but there is a certain artistry involved in establishing a test suite that is value-add and maintainable. Here are some tips for building your automated test suites with TestComplete: ...

Maintaining Software Quality After Launch (September 21, 2011)
Launch. After many months, or even years, all of the requirements analysis, design, development, and testing is completed – you pull the trigger, and you launch the new software product. Your staff and your clients login for the first time. You look forward to increased productivity, accuracy, an...

The Value of a Third-Party Project Management Team (January 17, 2011)
As a software development and consulting company, we have continued to see many customers move to buy software instead of build it themselves.

Five Benefits of using the Cloud (January 10, 2011)
It used to be normal for companies to buy hardware for servers, software for operating systems and staff people to support large internal infrastructures.