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SPML and SAML enhance application security in different ways
Access control is a major application security issue and OASIS standards SPML and SAML provide authentication and authorization benefits. Expert Ramesh Nagappan explains how these standards work. Ask the Expert
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Software assurance and risk management techniques
Software assurance is essential for producing quality software, and risk management plays a big role. Expert Karen N. Johnson explains what these terms mean and how to incorporate them into your testing process. Ask the Expert
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Ajax application security critical, experts warn
While developers increasingly turn to Ajax to create applications, they're not including security controls, leaving those applications open to attack. Ajax experts Billy Hoffman and Bryan Sullivan explain what can be done to increase Ajax application... Article
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Techniques to help prevent software project failure
By doing both prototyping and model-driven development, development groups will meet business needs, deliver projects on time and within budget and prevent project failure. Column
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How poor management skills jeopardize software quality
Software quality suffers when IT managers poorly communicate with their team and make decisions based on their own self-serving interests. Column
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How to create accurate project status reports
Project status reports are supposed to honestly capture a software project's progress. Expert Bas de Baar explains how PMs can instill trust and garner accurate reports. Ask the Expert
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Varying SDLC methodologies among development teams
Software development life cycle (SDLC) methodologies have their own advantages, tools and so forth. Expert David Christiansen explains why development groups should be allowed to embrace a variety of methodologies. Ask the Expert
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Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises -- Chapter 7, The Essence of Agile
Agile software development can be adopted on the enterprise level, and Dean Leffingwell's "Scaling Software Agility" explains how. This free chapter, "The Essence of Agile," describes how agile profoundly changes the SDLC. Tip
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Software metrics and the SDLC
Proper measurement of software metrics is essential to an effective software development life cycle. Expert Bas de Baar explains how to approach software metrics in your SDLC. Ask the Expert
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The struggle to create quality software
Software quality practices have been sacrificed as a way to improve a company's bottom line. But those sacrifices unnecessarily increase the risk to clients. Column