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		<title>Software Testing Industry Benchmarks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne-Marie Charrett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a bit of a discussion on &#8220;industry norms&#8221; on the yahoo based software testing group run by James Bach and Cem Kaner. It&#8217;s about the problems with trying to compare your company&#8217;s software testing against industry norms.
One of the comments made by James Bach was:
&#8220;But, nobody is studying industry norms except grad students [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How low do you go?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 05:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne-Marie Charrett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A survey* sponsored by the Australian Computer Society, found the following percentage allocation for software testing:
5% allocate more than  40% of the initial development budget to testing
25% allocate between 10 -19% of the initial development budget to testing
25% allocate between 20 &#8211; 29% of the initial development budget to testing
14% allocate between 30 &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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