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| 30 Oct 2009 | SearchSoftwareQuality.com |
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Welcome to the inaugural edition
of SearchSoftwareQuality.com's
Software Testing Ezine. Throughout
2009, our ezine's writers—all software
testing experts—will deliver tactical
how-to and in-depth trend and
strategy articles on key issues including
regression testing, service component
architecture, mobile application
testing, exploratory testing, SOA,
agile development, virtualization,
cloud computing and test management.
This first issue covers two new
technology areas—virtualization and
rich Internet applications (RIAs)—
that are changing software testing
approaches and presenting new
challenges. Our writers, Colleen Frye
and Kevin Beaver, each bring over 20
years of software industry experience
to play in their analysis of these
issues.
Industry veteran Colleen Frye opens
the e-zine with a report called "Virtual
test labs make most of cloud." The
insights and technology updates in
this article are timely, as the day when
most test and development labs are
virtualized is not far off. Already, 44%
of software developers are testing in
virtual environments and using virtualization
technologies as part of their
application development process,
according to a recent SearchSoftwareQuality .com survey.
Frye explains how virtualization
reduces test labs' hardware costs,
increases server utilization rates, simplifies
systems configuration, speeds
setup and teardown of test configurations
and more. Users of cloud-based
development services can even
bypass many traditional software
configuration tasks.
In "Testing RIAs for security holes,"
information security expert Kevin
Beaver makes it clear that newWeb
2.0 and Ajax technologies haven't
erasedWeb 1.0 security shortcomings.
Sure, he writes, "there are many
things to exploit with rich Internet
applications," but he adds that he's
had few security problems with them
and explains why. Check out his advice
on plugging security holes using automated
scanning tools and when to
use manual analysis on RIAs.
Download Software Testing: New software testing technologies bring new challenges, Vol. 1.
Download Software Testing: Testing strategies for complex environments: Agile, SOA, Vol. 2.
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