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Paco Hope Presents Security Testing for Muggles at STARWEST 2014 Paco Hope, principal consultant for Cigital, presented the last keynote of STARWEST 2014: “Softwarts: Security Testing for Muggles.” He exposed some testing fallacies, gave four principles for security testing, and detailed some charms every good testing wizard should have in his spell book. |
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Testing Smart Meters for Dummies A smart meter records consumption of electric energy and communicates that information daily to the utility company for monitoring and billing. Given the architecture, about half of the device maintenance effort is testing. Though the process is unique, the same basic testing imperatives apply. |
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Building Discoverability into Our Daily Information Consumption If we look at keywords essential to information processing, searchability and discoverability are critical. Any piece of information an organization has access to needs to become searchable and discoverable to the relevant end-users when they need it. This is presenting new business opportunities. |
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ISO 29119: The Redundancy in the Documentation Document When it comes to ISO 29119, the new international standard for software testing, there is a great deal of secrecy around it. Matt Heusser has the papers published so far, so he explains and shares his thoughts about Section 5—a document that is basically a collection of documents and definitions. |
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Automation and Ethics: The Human Side of Technology Automation technology is becoming more prevalent, and while it brings convenience, it also introduces some moral quandaries. Someone has to decide what the devices will do when things go wrong. What are the ethical responsibilities of software developers and testers working on these projects? |
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Successful Performance Testing Begins at Requirements Discovering performance issues in early builds allows more time to correct the design. By including critical performance-related features and elements earlier, we can take advantage of the incremental nature of the development process to avoid creating engineering in potential performance issues. |
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Automation: Testing or Checking? Interactive exploratory testing and organized automated testing seem to be on opposing ends of a spectrum, but much of that depends on how you apply them. Automated tests don't have to be shallow and boring. You can still explore, learn, and create good tests. Read on for more from Hans Buwalda. |
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The Benefits of Public Speaking for Testers If you're a tester and you've been avoiding public speaking opportunities because you don't think it applies to your work, you don't know what you would talk about, or you're just nervous to present in front of people, you should change your mind. Public speaking has several benefits for testers. |
