Labels:text | screenshot | font | document | menu | number OCR: Taking Test Seriously ( At Last) Testing, long considered an afterthought (if it was ever thought of at all), looks as if it comes into its own in just about every sector. Now let's hope that the respondents' acknowledgements of the importance of testing to so many areas of development effort is matched by actual test programs. Development/Integration Testing Efforts Y2K remediation efforts 7.7 5.3 HTML-based Internet/intranet sys. 200 5.8 6.8 Java applet-based Internet/ 4.6 intranet sys. DARM 6.3 Multi-tier C/S sys 5.9 7.2 Two-tier "fat client" C/S apps - EBM 5.6 5.4 Component development efforts 4.9 6.4 Application package solutions 5.8 PASADA 6.3 Corba/COM-based distributed sys. 4.1 5.5 Internet/intranet, transactional sys. 5.2 E-commerce sys. 4.1 5.5 Application integration efforts 7.2 Relative Importance Please rate the relative importance of testing for your organization for each of the fol- lowing types of sajminare developmentintegration efforts on a stale of 1-10. What do you believe that rating will be in 2 years? (1 not important, 10 very important)