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• SoLoMo apps: How to test them

  SoLoMo apps are on the move, location-aware, and they interact with social networks. That's forcing test managers to devise new QA strategies.  Continue Reading

• Ten steps to better application security testing strategies

  Address app testing strategy concerns at each stage of the application lifecycle and learn about tools and techniques to boost security.  Continue Reading

• Secure Code: Why buffer overflows still matter

  To secure code, software pros test for buffer overflows -- even though these flaws occur only in nonmemory-managed languages such as C and C++.  Continue Reading

• A five-step plan to capturing better application requirements

  Defining software application requirements at a project's outset is still an issue. Learn how to build better application requirements.  Continue Reading

• Health care applications: How to determine what to test

  Risk analysis for health care software apps helps clarify which functional areas are most important to test. Catching critical defects can save lives.  Continue Reading

• Cloud ALM: How to plan your project

  Advice for cloud ALM projects: make sure that your test sandboxes cannot access production databases or other resources.  Continue Reading

• Finding more defects with Agile exploratory testing

  Agile exploratory testing can help teams discover more defects, allowing everyone on the team to explore all the ways a customer can use the application.  Continue Reading

• Agile techniques: Test quadrants and automation volcanoes

  Agile techniques including test quadrants and the test automation volcano help teams organize their testing efforts and establish priorities.  Continue Reading

• Beyond DevOps: WebOps reduces cloud deployment risk

  WebOps goes beyond deployment and manages the business activity of the application, ensuring proper infrastructure capacity for that process.  Continue Reading

• How to measure test progress: Every picture tells a story

  Seeing the big picture when it comes managing the progress of your software tests may require putting together all the little picture pieces.  Continue Reading

• Creating an effective Agile cross-functional team

  Putting together the cross-functional team described by Agile best practices offers great benefits at the cost of great change.  Continue Reading

• Enterprise software development collaboration with CALM and CDEs

  Committing to software development collaboration tools and techniques helps distributed teams consistently deliver quality enterprise applications.  Continue Reading

• Mobile app security advice: Err on the side of protection

  Apps running on mobile devices demand a high level of security. Experts offer advice and techniques on implementing mobile app security effectively.  Continue Reading

• Acceptance test-driven development explained

  Acceptance test driven development brings developers, testers and business together to sort out bugs before coding starts, according to a new book.  Continue Reading

• Modernizing ALM and development for virtual resources and the cloud

  Organizations are seeking ways to modernize their development and ALM planning and processes for virtual resources and the cloud environment.  Continue Reading