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Load Testing for Web 2.0: Simplifying Performance Validation for Rich Internet Applications by Hewlett-Packard Company
potential to overwhelm your servers. This paper examines a set of sophisticated tools for load testing your new high -powered apps. Although rich next-generation applications such as Ajax...
Test Management Tools and Techniques by Hewlett-Packard Company
test management and provides practical ways to help you implement an organized and structured testing process. It also discusses the benefits of HP Quality Center software. While the growing...
Implement Changes Faster While Minimizing Risks by Oracle Corporation
Principal Analyst at Forrester Research discuss pitfalls and best practices for application testing in database environments. For many organizations, successful change implementation means...
Best Practices for Provisioning Databases for Test and Development by Informatica, formerly Applimation
Best practices and new technologies available for provisioning databases for test and development environments are outlined in this white paper. Using this as a...
Application Quality Lifecycle: Security, Functional and Performance Testing by Hewlett-Packard Company
potential security defects.

The benefits of function- performance- and security -testing within a single development process reach across all levels of an organization. For...
Best Practices for Provisioning Test and Development Systems in an SAP Environment by Informatica, formerly Applimation
Often, two or more non-production systems are required for each production system to facilitate testing, development, training and other support purposes.

This white paper discusses best practices...
Managing Software Quality as a Strategic Business Asset by IBM
Management thought leadership whitepaper series and its first paper titled, "When am I done testing?" Listen to IBM Rational Quality Management evangelist and thought leader, Mike...
Rational Quality Manager in 3 Minutes by IBM
Rational Quality Manager helps you collaborate, automate and govern your software delivery process. Learn in 3 minutes how IBM Rational Quality Manager software...
Automated testing ROI: fact or fiction? A customer's perspective: What real QA organizations have found by Hewlett-Packard Company
The white paper explores the fundamentals of automated software testing, explains how such an endeavor is actually an investment for a company, and details how a company...
Automating Virtual Lab Infrastructure and IT Service Delivery with Microsoft and Surgient by Microsoft and Surgient
lab infrastructure and automate the VM lifecycle. Learn how to drive accelerated, high-quality testing and delivery of IT services while reducing operating expenses and increasing business...
Faster Application Development via Improved Database Change Management by Embarcadero Technologies, Inc.
Embarcadero® Change Manager™ puts the power of change tracking, schema comparison, software-generated synchronization scripts, and flexible reporting into...
Performance Center of Excellence by Hewlett-Packard Company
become more crucial. Organizations building centers of excellence (CoE) around performance testing find that the CoE centralizes resources and utilizes the full capabilities of today's robust...
Why Choose Intel Server Products? by Intel Corporation
products are designed and built to meet real-world demands. Extensive design and validation testing ensures that when customers get Intel server products, these products deliver. Quality and...
Making SharePoint Deployments Run 5X Better by Citrix
Free Performance Report - "Making SharePoint Deployments Run 5X Better" -- includes tested, quantifiable data that shows how Citrix® NetScaler® helps run...
Seven Ways ITIL Can Help You in an Economic Downturn by BMC Software, Inc
that can enable the business and your IT organization to cope with the effects of economic stress. ITIL can help you to deliver higher-performing technology services that help your business to...
Strategies for Deploying Blade Servers in Existing Data Centers by APC
power used per rack and heat generated per rack—into an existing data center is guaranteed to stress existing power and cooling systems. To use blade servers, the power and cooling infrastructure...
Application Complexity Spurs Growth in Performance Validation Market by Hewlett-Packard Company
white paper and learn how performance validation solutions evolved from application load testing to currently include enterprise load testing and application performance lifecycle...
DataDirect XML Converters Allow Health Care Payers and Providers to Comply with X12 EDI Standards by DataDirect Technologies
their own 834-to-XML converter which would expensive and require extensive quality assurance testing to ensure correctness...
Making Quality a Deliverable in Eclipse-Based Java Development by Instantiations
the organization is CodePro AnalytiX™, a powerful suite of automated software quality and testing tools for defect detection, repair and reporting. CodePro AnalytiX has helped thousands of...
HP LoadRunner Software Tips and Tricks for Configuration Scripting and Execution by Hewlett-Packard Company
new users and seasoned professionals learn new ways to design and implement successful load testing initiatives using HP LoadRunner. This guide provides tips and tricks for HP LoadRunner...
Test Driven Development with YUI Test by The Ajax Experience
TDD practices, including the use of assertions, organizing test suites and test cases, and testing JavaScript-specific features (such as XHR and DOM events). Learn how to apply the fundamental...
Ajax Testing Tool Review by The Ajax Experience
This session covers when to test, what to test, how to test Ajax components. Automatic testing with various tools, including YUI Test, OpenQA Selenium and TIBCO Test Automation Kit,...
Managing Requirements, Tests and Defects with HP Quality Center by Hewlett-Packard Company
for Quality Center software drives a more effective and efficient global application testing process and supports high levels of communication and collaboration among distributed...
Software Quality Resources
Soak testing and performance testing terms by Mike Kelly
What is soak testing? How is it different from regular stress testing? Is it just more intense?

There are a lot of performance testing terms out there. It often seems like performance testers have three different terms to... More...

Jun 23, 2008
Testing software for performance and stress
You are not done testing unless you understand the performance characteristics of your application and the manner in which your product deforms under stress. Michael Hunter... More...
Jul 27, 2007
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Real World Web Security Problems and Solutions - input validation By Kevin Beaver, CISSP
flaws that can only be uncovered (at least realistically) by testing them with reliable Web vulnerability scanning tools. The fix is to code the application to only... More...
Jun 19, 2009
10 steps to acing web app security assessments By Kevin Beaver
and finish on schedule to boot.

Whether you'll be doing the testing on your own or hiring an outside expert, you must diligently plan things out and get all the right... More...

Jun 15, 2009
Three software regression testing steps can perfect defect fixes By John Overbaugh
we've historically had issues with regression testing or, as we call it, retesting of defect fixes. This is an issue which plagues many software... More...
Jun 10, 2009