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Volunteer While You Sleep: Computing for Clean Water What happens when thousands of volunteers join together to donate their unused computing power for humanitarian research? Hopefully, through the Computing for Clean Water project, access to clean water is closer to reality for nearly one billion people around the world. |
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Testing Nonfunctional Requirements in an Agile Lifecycle As organizations embrace agile, requirements become a challenge because they must be considered and validated in each (short) sprint. Ideally, nonfunctional requirements should be a continuous focus throughout the project. Here are some ways to better address NFRs in an agile development lifecycle. |
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New Biometric Security with 3D Fingerprint Scans Researchers at the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center are working on a security solution that’s similar to medical ultrasound imaging. The technology is a tiny ultrasonic fingerprint sensor that can measure a 3D image of your finger’s surface, along with a shallow layer of tissue underneath. |
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How Testing Is Changing for the DevOps World The role of software testing and quality assurance is becoming increasingly important in a DevOps setup. This position has undergone a lot of change in the testing practices used, tools leveraged, and the shift in skill set and mindset of practitioners, and testers have a lot to learn from DevOps. |
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Are You Choosing the Right Testing Tools? A tester’s productivity and efficiency increasingly is being driven by the set of smart tools used over the course of the testing effort. While all the available options are exciting, the challenge lies in how to go about choosing the right test tools. Commercial or open source? General or niche? |
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The Competition for Sports Management Systems Management software has been around for many years, but sports is a somewhat newer discipline where management systems can be used to boost productivity and enhance a team’s overall efficiency. Bharathan Venkateswaran looks at the competitive world and future of sports managements systems. |
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Virtual Clinics: Which Attributes Determine Success? Growth in areas such as big data, cloud, and mobile computing have aided new trends in health care, and one area that has grown significantly is virtual clinics. Rajini Padmanaban looks at the future of virtual clinics and the attributes that can determine their success. |
