Sep 1, 2005 | Leadership, Process, Team Management, Testing, Training
Will Process Improvement Save the Day? Probably Not. You Need If you’ve been asked to start or grow a testing team, you’re probably wondering, “Where do I start?” Since test teams today are expected to find more bugs in less time, in increasingly complex environments...
May 1, 2005 | Automation, Mobile, Performance, Testing, Tools
The Choices This Year Look A Lot Like Last Year’s Winners, With LoadRunner Again Leading the Pack In 2006, you voted Mercury Interactive as your favorite supplier of testing tools, lavishing high praise on LoadRunner, QuickTest Professional and TestDirector for...
May 1, 2005 | Process, QA, Testing
Soon after we made the offer on our new house, we asked to get back inside with a tape measure. We wanted to plan where to put furniture, to ease decisions on move-in day; would the bookcases fit along that wall? Naturally, there were several measurements that we...
May 1, 2005 | Performance, Testing
When You’re Out to Fix Bottlenecks, Be Sure You’re Able to Distinguish Them From System Failures and Slow Spots So you found an odd pattern in your scatter chart that appears to be a bottleneck. What do you do now? How do you gather enough information to...
Dec 1, 2004 | Security Testing, Testing, User Acceptance
Web applications are vulnerable right through the front door —by hackers who subvert data entry fields, hijack URLs and grab the file system. Here’s how to stop ’em. Enterprise software faces a wide variety of threats and security risks. But none of these threats is...