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Continuous delivery in ALM: Opportunities, challenges
Continuous delivery is the automation of the software build-test-deployment of software cycles; sometimes it allows for completing the cycle multiple times a day.
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Preventing security attacks using the ESAPI
Security expert John Overbaugh explores solutions and strategies that are relatively easy to implement and that prevent some of the most common attacks in part two of this two-part article.
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Three phases of an anonymous attack methodology
Security expert John Overbaugh examines three of Anonymous’ most common techniques for attacking websites and how they are carried out.
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Contextual inquiry techniques in requirements gathering
Software consultant Nari Kannan writes about typical problems with requirements gathering and provides an outline of contextual inquiry techniques.
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Security testing for unvalidated redirects and forwards
Security expert John Overbaugh gives security testers the information they need in order to ensure the Web application code that they’re responsible for is protected.
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Requirements management collaboration with ALM tools
Software consultant Nari Kannan writes about features needed in software tools for requirements management and provides brief summaries of software tools available, both commercial and open source.
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Agile ALM: Automation tools for the lifecycle
Software Consultant Nari Kannan offers CIOs insights about the different categories of ALM automation tools and identifies commercially available and open source options in each category.
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Enhance mobile application performance
Learn how to ensure robust end-to-end testing of mobile applications and their superior performance.
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Using Software as a Service for source code control
Though all development shops will be using source code control (SCC), hosting the repository in the cloud is now an option that should be carefully considered.
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Designing and implementing ALM quality dashboards
Software consultant Nari Kannan writes about how CIOs and senior managers can best design, implement and use an ALM quality dashboard.
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Four ways to reduce software testing costs
Matt Heusser, lead editor of "How to Reduce the Cost of Software Testing," shares a few of his favorite tips on how to reduce testing costs without sacrificing quality.
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Agile development provides ALM transparency
Agile expert Lisa Crispin describes Agile processes that will keep your managers and team informed throughout the application lifecycle.
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Dogfooding: Why CIOs should test their own mobile apps
Using your own application or “eating your own dog food,” shows confidence in your product. Nari Kannan shares insights on why CIOs or senior managers should test mobile apps.
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Agile ALM: What’s the ROI of automation?
Senior managers and decision makers will learn about the different types of automation and how they can make an informed decision when looking for a tool set to best yield a positive ROI.
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Technical debt: What is it and why should CIOs care?
CIOs and senior managers will hear from three industry experts who explain what technical debt is, why it occurs and what leaders can do now to address this business risk.
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Software troubleshooting: Managing opportunity costs
Senior managers will want to understand and consider “opportunity costs” that result when a crisis occurs. Consultant Catherine Powell explains that by taking opportunity costs into account, the co...
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Automating cloud computing services
Software consultant Nari Kannan offers decision makers information about challenges in automating the configuration, rollout and management of cloud computing services and discusses popular solutio...
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Building software security testing skills for managers
Security expert John Overbaugh describes how managers can foster the professional growth of employees by helping them get the training they need to become skilled security testers.
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Social media tools aid in collaboration
CIOs and managers will learn how new generation social tools are providing features necessary to collaborate internally and externally with customers and stakeholders.
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What are CIOs thinking? Learning from social media
A recent report from Logicalis revealed the top ten buzzwords used in social media by CIOs. Learn how the data from that report was gathered and what trends were found.
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Software testers: Get a professional development plan
STAREAST 2013 participants offer advice to software testers on setting up their company's professional development plan.
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Tips for database testing from the cloud
What is database testing and how is it important to your application and the company? Get tips to effectively test when data is hosted in the cloud.
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Software development best practice: Threat modeling
Early in the software development cycle ask, Who might attack the application? How would they do it? What are they after? This is threat modeling.
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Making multi-team Agile management work
Amy Reichert explores the Agile management challenge of leading more than one team at the same time and offers advice on making it work.