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How to Put Together A “Dream Team”
Twenty years ago, I was a contractor at Lotus Development when they ramped up a huge new database product code-named No Comment (it didn’t ship, but that’s another story). The QA manager found herself with 27 people who didn’t know one another, who had no idea of each...
Running The Database Race
11/1/2005 How to Get Your Relational Database Up to Speed Right Out of the Gate The overall speed of an application will often depend on how fast the database runs. Most mission-critical business applications have at their core a relational database that maintains key...
What’s in The Future for Test Automation?
Most of the functions of today’s vehicles are controlled by a computer. When your car needs an annual inspection or has a problem, your mechanic plugs in a diagnostic unit and obtains all manner of useful information on its inner workings. Now, why is it that a car...
Techniques for Building Super Testers
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...
The 2007 Testers Choice Awards
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...
Defect Tracking
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...
How To Identify The Usual Performance Suspects
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 refute the...
Code Grabbers: Testing for GUI Security
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...