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| 13 May 2008 |
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Finding & prioritizing Web application vulnerabilities
(Dark Reading)
Web application flaws are rapidly becoming the most serious threat to your data. Do you know how to identify them and which ones to fix first? |
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Conscientious 'uncertification'
(James Bach's Blog)
James Bach is thinking about creating badges that say "Conscientiously Uncertified" for those who "want to resist the dumbing down of testing by cynical consultants promoting bogus... |
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Software testing: Surveying the terrain
(StickyMinds.com)
Bug logs and testing dashboards are great reports for testers, but sometimes these reports simply fall short of communicating key information, to stakeholders, such as why testing ... |
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Elastic Path uses distributed agile, outsourcing to stay on top
(Agile Journal)
Elastic Path found that doing distributed Agile with an outsourcing partner can be a great shot in the arm to a project's resource pool and it can provide true team scalability, pu... |
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Product aims to fix security flaws during app creation
(SD Times)
Parasoft is making it easier for developers to spot and fix security vulnerabilities that aren't usually caught until after the application is built. |
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| 12 May 2008 |
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Book Review: Just Enough Requirements Management
EXCLUSIVE!
Alan M. Davis's Just Enough Requirements Management strikes at the heart of the problem of eliciting software requirements and helps to bridge the gap between development and busin... |
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Shining a light on application performance in virtual environments
EXCLUSIVE!
Using Quest Software's Foglight, the BECU credit union successfully monitors and manages its applications, as well as servers, in virtualized environments. |
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| 08 May 2008 |
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McAfee, Yahoo partner on Web security feature
(eWeek)
The companies are launching a beta program for the security feature SearchScan. This feature alerts users about sites with spam, spyware, adware and other malicious software. |
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Opera releases Web debugging tool
(Reg Developer)
Browser maker Opera has released an early version of a tool to help developers debug Web pages. "Opera Dragonfly" aims to assist developers in making the experience of surfing the ... |
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A short history of my ISEB Software Testing Certification involvement
(Evil Tester)
Software tester Alan Richardson has written a damning blog post about his experiences taking, contributing to and grading a popular testing certification exam. |
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Are there weaknesses with Collective Code Ownership?
(Info Q)
Many in the Agile community have been practicing Collective Code Ownership for a few years now and have discovered some of its faults -- such as decreased accountability and hiding... |
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Crimeware double threat menaces Internet
(Help Net Security)
The APWG announced that its January survey shows a new record high in the number of unique keylogger crimeware variants detected -- while the number of crimeware-spreading URLs ros... |
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| 07 May 2008 |
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Dynamic analysis tool from Coverity looks at concurrency defects
EXCLUSIVE!
Concurrent programs loom as a major developer and tester challenge as multicore processors grow in use. A dynamic analysis tool for Java from Coverity may automatically detect mult... |
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| 06 May 2008 |
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What makes a good project manager?
(O'Reilly)
In an effort to win a copy of Scott Berkun's book Making Things Happen, people offer their thoughts on what makes a good project manager. Qualities held high include managing, not ... |
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The future of quality lies in productivity
(SD Times)
Sometimes the steps managers take to up the quality of software development actually hamper the process. Parasoft's Adam Kolawa offers some suggestions to get real quality out the ... |
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Handling software maintenance the agile way
(Agile Software Development Blog)
In agile development, it can be helpful to have a maintenance sub-team or a single maintenance person. |
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Rails performance analysis with New Relic
(InfoQ)
New Relic offers Rails performance monitoring and profiling as Software as a Service (SaaS). Lew Cirne of New Relic explains how the technology works. |
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Collaborative, rich application development catching on with businesses
(SD Times)
According to an Evans Data survey, close to 40% of developers coding Web 2.0 applications said they are writing for enterprise users. And a majority shows an interest in using agil... |
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BMC tool helps resolve problems in Java and .NET applications
With BMC Software's Application Problem Resolution 7.0, testers can find and resolve problems in both .NET and Java EE applications. |
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