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Jeff Patton shares several innovative ideas he's seen in practice lately that have helped an entire team own up to the quality of their software... More...
Your software can be hit by three different types of bugs -- each requiring different fixes and each having different costs... More...
Nov 20, 2008
Amazon announced CloudFront Beta, a cloud Content Delivery Network (CDN), that can offer low-latency and high-speed content transfer all over the globe... More...
Nov 20, 2008
We're overdue for a major step forward in functional testing tools. Here's a look at what some software testing experts say is next in test automation... More...
Feb 19, 2007
Cenzic Inc. announced the next phase of its "No Web Site Left Behind" initiative with programs designed to help universities teach secure coding to their students in the computer science curriculum and... More...
Feb 14, 2007
Though Microsoft has made leaps in security over the years, even more challenges lie ahead as additional devices go online, company executives said Tuesday... More...
Feb 7, 2007
CodeGear, the developer tools unit of Borland Software, has announced new tools to enable the rapid development of PHP applications, as well as a new rapid application development environment for Windows... More...
Feb 21, 2007
Stefan Esser, founder of the Hardened-PHP Project and the PHP Security Response Team (which he recently left), discusses how the PHP Security Response Team works, why he resigned from it, what features he plans to... More...
Feb 7, 2007
Many organizations still use sheer manpower to find defects in software instead of employing methodologies to measure effectiveness... More...
Feb 16, 2007
The launch of Microsoft Office 2007 is likely to turn malicious hackers' attention to other desktop applications, experts have warned... More...
Feb 13, 2007
Doing SOA without adequate testing is a prescription for disaster, writes John Michelsen, founder of iTKO Inc. and chief architect of its LISA testing product. "When you have a shared set of services being... More...
Feb 22, 2007
After federalizing its global IT operations, the global healthcare giant is cutting costs and improving service through its "Process Excellence" methodology... More...
Feb 22, 2007
Every day in March Stefan Esser will post information about one or more vulnerabilities in PHP. The recently released PHP 5.2.1 fixes some of the bugs he'll cover, but he says information about the bugs in the... More...
Feb 27, 2007
Virtualized software development will help you increase the quality, performance and reliability of end product, according to this writer... More...
Feb 22, 2007
The debate over Agile certification rages on, with a recent entry in the Agile Chronicles taking aim specifically at Scrum certification... More...
Feb 20, 2007
Distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS), where targets are deluged with requests for information, will be made a criminal offence in Sweden beginning June 1... More...
Feb 21, 2007
The HTTP Data Integrity Validator (HDIV) project is an Apache-licensed version of Struts that adds data obfuscation in an attempt to hide data values from prying eyes. It sits on top of Struts and is API-compatible... More...
Feb 1, 2007
Two security classes in .NET, HMACSHA512 and HMACSHA384, have a bug. It isn't an earth-shattering bug, but it does produce results that are inconsistent with the standard... More...
Feb 20, 2007
The vast majority of insider IT sabotage is carried out by employees -- or ex-employees -- who have already showed signs of concerning behavior such as tardiness, truancy, arguing with colleagues, and poor job... More...
Feb 7, 2007
What is called quality assurance is more like quality control in most companies. Quality assurance involves the proactive activities that can actually assure that we will build better quality than we have in... More...
Feb 22, 2007
Chris Sullo, author of Nikto -- the popular open source Web application security scanner -- talks about features in Nikto and future plans for the tool... More...
Feb 14, 2007
Acunetix, a leading vendor of Web application security solutions, today revealed that on average 70% of Web sites are at serious and immediate risk of being hacked... More...
Feb 14, 2007
Watchfire has released AppScan Enterprise 5, a new vulnerability scanning and reporting tool aimed at finding application security flaws early in the development life cycle... More...
Feb 21, 2007
It's important to find low-hanging vulnerabilities and quickly repair them. It's not so easy, however, with Web applications because automated scanners often don't catch them... More...
Feb 26, 2007
In her follow-up column, Elisabeth Hendrickson, founder and president of Quality Tree Software, offers a list of features she would like to see in a test tool. Those include various graphical representations... More...
Feb 21, 2007
Software Testing White papers
Software testing: why it needs a new professionalism by ComputerWeekly.com
We believe that Testing is at a key juncture in its development as a Profession. The demonstrable consequences of this approach are now very clear  - hidden...
Automated testing ROI: fact or fiction? A customer's perspective: What real QA organizations have found by Hewlett-Packard Company
the fundamentals of automated software testing, explains how such an endeavor is actually an investment for a company, and details how a company can get a return on their investment.

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Test Environment Access Constraints: The Impact on Testing and Quality by Parasoft Corporation
Parasoft survey, development and testing teams seem to lack the resources required to complete their expected level of testing when it comes to their applications...
MODERNIZE YOUR MANUAL TESTING WITH HP SPRINTER by Hewlett-Packard Company
Manual testing still accounts for about 75% of all functional testing. However, innovation hasn’t come into play yet and manual testers find...

Uplift Quality with Requirements Driven Testing

 by Micro Focus
learn why requirements driven testing (RDT) is so important, what potential areas of the software development life cycle are addressed by RDT, the benefits, and the...