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- (Quality Assurance) A department, procedure or program within an organization that is involved in testing hardware and/or software. QA ensures that all products and systems perform as originally...
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- Security expert discusses a possible future for PCI-DSS... it's grim
- Security expert discusses a possible future for PCI-DSS... it's grimSource code reviewsSource code reviews. As suggested they should not have to be applied to all software, but how do you decide what software requires what type of review and (I know you hate this) QA.If you are going to QA...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-15
- Quality assurance for SOA requires a different mindset
- Quality assurance for SOA requires a different mindsetSOA or ESB - the lines are blurredWhile I agree that SOA does require a different mindset to QA, I don’t necessarily agree it's more complex than or as dismal as this article suggest. It's just different - and if done right,...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-09
- Quality assurance for SOA requires a different mindset
- Forget QA as you knew it -- as it seems to do with everything else, SOA upsets the apple cart. Quality assurance assures more trust in SOA -- and SOAs need trust SOA has a lot of moving parts, so more traditional QA processes...
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- QA failure in Yahoo unlimited email
- QA failure in Yahoo unlimited emailAre they using Zimbra...for this service?RE: QA failure in Yahoo unlimited emailI already ran into this issue with Yahoo mail except we were unable to send or receive messages instead it crashing. I just created a folder called archive and moved a large number of...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-21
- QA failure in Yahoo unlimited email
- Â Yahoo's unlimited storage email service fails under certain conditions that prevent users from accessing their mail. Most likely, poor testing is to blame. According to The Wall Street Journal, when users leave too many messages directly in their inbox, login becomes impossible: ...
- Blog posts 2008-03-21
- NetworkSmart (exe)
- Application teams, quality assurance groups, developers and IT organizations rely on NetworkSmart to quickly identify and resolve performance problems found in their mission-critical applications. This easy to use software is designed to help companies reduce application downtime and increase the efficiency of applications running on the network.Product Features:Determine if issues...
- Software downloads 2008-02-07
- Rainbow Analyst Personal (zip)
- Rainbow Analyst Personal is a quality assurance tool, intended to help you in developing your own Excel models and in checking models developed by others. Also the Analyst can speed up the process of checking models developed by others, and highlight errors or problems that might otherwise have been missed....
- Software downloads 2008-01-18
- FireFox 3 beta 2 scheduled for availability Dec. 21
- Firefox 3 beta 2 is now scheduled to be available to the public on December 21, Mozilla developers say. The browser code is now in the quality assurance phase and will enjoy its first round of scrutiny during a test day being held on December 14. If...
- Blog posts 2007-12-13
- Engineering Services Provider Increases Output of Software Development Group
- Although global engineering firm CH2M HILL followed the Microsoft Solutions Framework development methodology, it lacked a comprehensive tool set to support its strategy for application lifecycle management, resulting in inconsistent planning and reporting, and lengthy software development and Quality Assurance (QA) cycles. The company addressed these needs by supporting its...
- Case studies 2007-11-01
- ClinTools (exe)
- ClinTools is a statistical suite of evidence-based decision making tools. It augments traditional statistical software by conducting specialized analyses that are required for evidence-based practice, whether that be in the health system, education system, or any other area that requires quality assurance practices. These include effect size, meta-analysis, odds ratio,...
- Software downloads 2007-10-24
- HP Customer Perspectives: How QA Can Prevent Hackers
- The presenter of this webcast discusses about how QA professionals can play a more critical role in the application security process. In this webcast, the attendee will learn understanding the application security lifecycle, how QA can prevent hackers from exploiting application defects, what to look for in an application security...
- Webcasts 2007-09-11
- Study: Good SOA testing needs a lot of sign-offs
- Last month, I talked about Aberdeen Group's latest survey that contrasted the SOA practices of "best-in-class" companies versus those of the "laggards." In that survey, it was found that the top companies were seeing greater payback and customer satisfaction as a result of their efforts because they were "enterprise-aware." ...
- Blog posts 2007-09-06
- "Users will curse you"
- "Users will curse you"Why is this news?While there are some decent suggestions for improving the dev process this shouldn't come as news to anyone. Every other industry has strict guidelines for quality control. Look at the Mattel/China debacle and you see that every industry needs quality guidelines. Shipping crap is...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-24
- "Users will curse you"
- Good management is the antithesis of project failure. And nowhere is this more true than in testing and software quality assurance. If your software doesn't work as advertised, your implementation will fail and users will curse you. Although this equation may seem obvious, I can't begin to describe the failures...
- Blog posts 2007-08-24
- Managed Testing Service for a Stock Exchange Trading Platform
- The company is one of the leading stock exchanges in the USA. As the most diversified financial marketplace, the company's advanced centralized specialist system offers trading in a basket of products which includes equities, Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and derivative products (options and other complex financial instruments). Due to regulatory...
- Case studies 2007-07-12
- Build quality assurance and enterprise integration into every development project
- "Feature complete" is not the same as "production ready." Whether it's in Java, .NET, or Ruby on Rails, getting your application ready to ship or your Web site ready to launch is only half the battle. Did you design your system to survive a sudden rush of visitors...
- Book chapters 2007-05-31
- Web-Based Data Quality Assurance Reports at the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center (NACC)
- A series of approximately 60 tables and reports has been developed for monitoring the quality of data submitted to the Uniform Data Set (UDS) of the National Alzheimers Coordinating Center (NACC). Twenty-nine Alzheimers Disease Centers (ADCs), funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), submit data collected on standardized forms...
- White papers 2007-05-14
- A Lifecycle Approach to Software Quality - Venturing Beyond the QA Imperative
- This paper outlines a holistic approach to optimizing software quality across the application lifecycle with BMC AppSight. Several case study examples are included to demonstrate how innovative companies have leveraged problem resolution technologies to reduce development & testing costs significantly, and promote quality throughout the application lifecycle.
- White papers 2007-05-07
- QALogger (exe)
- A must for any QA specialist. Logs all activity performed by a QA specialist to determine what the caused the defect. QALogger tracks keys, mouse activity, screen shots, and other information describing exactly what was performed by the QA person. Never again forget how a bug was reproduced. Let QALogger...
- Software downloads 2007-02-27
- Linux Distribution Testing and Quality Assurance: Current Developments of the EDOS Project and Open Questions
- This paper describes the developments done within the EDOS project regarding Linux distribution testing and quality assurance process. It will also point out remaining open questions that could be subjects for further research and which could bring significant advances for Linux distribution developers. As the number of testing units (the...
- White papers 2007-02-12
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