quality

Anyone used ConQAT with a VB.NET code base

To quote from the ConQAT - Continuous Quality Assessment Toolkit website Long-lived software systems are subject to gradual quality decay if no counter measures are taken. Continuous quality control counters this decay through an orchestrated application of constructive and analytic quality assurance techniques. The Conti...

android imageview scrolling to display full high quality image

hi friends... i am working on displaying an image and placing an icon on top of it... clicking the icon will show an enlarged version of the image... though putting the imageview holding the image in a LinearLayout scales the image to the width of the dialog, the problem is that i need to display the image in a dialog but the image is ...

Quality Testing Data

Does anyone have recommendations for testing data quality. Imagine you have staged data in one format and executed a process to transfer it to a more relationship normalized format in another database. I would like to create a bunch of tests that could be executed to verify data quality. Does anyone have recommendations as far as tool...

Videos - should I include them in my app?

Hey guys, Thanks to you, I got my working hours calculator on the App Store. :) Now for my next one - I want to make an app that includes video of my series of tutorials. However, I want to know whether it's good form to include the videos directly inside the app or not? If I do, the app size would be something in the region of 80mb as ...

php imagecopyresampled poor quality

I have a php script which saves the original image, then resizes it - one thumbnail and one larger image for web viewing. This works well except with some images the quality is terrible. It seems to be saved with a very low colour pallet. You can see the result at http://kalpaitch.com/index.php?filter=white - click on the first thumbnail...

[Java] How to measure robustness?

I am working on a thesis about meassuring quality of a product. The product in this case is a website. I have identified several quality attributes and meassurement techniques. One quality attribute is "Robustness". I want to meassure that somehow, but I can't find any useful information how to do this in an objective manner. Is there...

How To Serve High Quality Youtube Videos On iPhone Over 3G Connection?

As you might already know, when you embed a YouTube video in iPhone app, YouTube will serve good quality video if you are on wifi connection and very poor quality if you are on 3g. How to force YouTube serve good quality at all times? ...

Quality Problem when resizing images using C# Graphics Class

I am resizing an small images (eg 20x25) to larger images (eg 150x170). My problem is not about quality, which as expected is has some blurring. My problem is that a border is that a light colour border is being created on the right hand side and bottom of the image. Is there a way that this can be removed? My code is the following: us...

Make sure all changes are commented

As part of QA activities I need to make sure that all changes between the last tagged code and the proposed code are commented (At least have references to an issue ID). Is there a way of doing this instead of manually looking at diffs? Does anyone has a trick under his/her sleeve? I want to avoid making Code Review obseervations for ...

How can I determine the quality of service in WCF?

I want to determine the following QoS Attribute of my service: Response Time Reliability Availability I will be creating an application that will select a service based on the mentioned attribute. ...

ActionScript 3 Read JPEG quality

I am developing image uploader for Flash 10. Is there a way to read jpeg quality of the browsed images. ...

How can I check out the picture quality in program using c#?

I want to check out whether the photograph is suitable for print or not using my application.How can I do that?I don't know much about photo quality?Is the resolution of every photograph is same or not? ...

Is there a Checkstyle-like tool to monitor XHTML (or XML) pages?

Hello, I am working on a project where we have many JSF pages - using the XHTML format. We monitor the quality of our code using Sonar (and thus Checkstyle, PMD, FindBugs...). This works great for the Java part of our application. Now, I want to have a tool (ideally something that could then be linked to Sonar by writing my own plugin)...

Hierarchical models of software quality

Can anyone help me listing the Hierarchical models of software quality? Please can anyone say me Is it just McCall and Bohem model or many other hierarchical models exists? ...

Excel Interop's get_printquality method - what the heck?

I'm using C# and the Office 2007 Excel Interop library. I'm needing to adjust the print quality of every page on each worksheet in an Excel file using the Interop API. The following is my current code for doing this. This is happening within a foreach loop over every Worksheet in the Workbook. // Attempt to force the printer to...

High quality software examples

One of the best ways to learn about programming is reading high quality code/projects from great engineers. Which open-source projects do you think is worth looking at? I mean, that code that you can print and sit under a tree with a glass of wine and enjoy reading. If you can, also specify if the software is great to look at because it...

Attaching Files to QC defect by Java code from local machine

Hi All, When we open a defect in QC generally we need to attach the logs of the server i want to Make an application such that It will take files(logs from all the relevant server) and stores in our local machine and then we can rar those files and directly attach it to QC defect mentioned by person opening defect Now my question is how...

Algorithm Analysis tool for java

I am looking for an algorithm analysis tool for java that can calculate Big 0 of a function. Ideal I would like to make it part of my build process, along side of my other code metrics tool. Even after searching on google I am unable to find any opensource of commercial tool. Any suggestion would be welcome Thanks ...

Good hosted sites to manage quality testing?

Basically, I would like to manage quality testing with an issue management system focused on quality testing? I can't use the typical issue management system such as Lighthouse, FogBugz because each test is written as a ticket and 20 to 30 tickets need to be duplicated (w/ no history) every time we start a quality cycle. Do any (hosted) ...

What industries develop the highest quality software? Lowest quality? Why?

From your experience, of those industries that develop custom software for internal use such as financial services companies, which ones produce higher quality software measured in defect rates and, more qualitatively, ease of maintenance over the long term? What contributes the most to this achievement of higher quality? Is it due to ...