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Video Whitepaper: Rapid Bottleneck Identification: A better way to do load testing: Watch the free, on-demand video whitepaper to learn how to easily launch a critical Web application. Ensuring good application performance is crucial, but time is short. How can you optimally test the application and still meet your deadlines? Rapid bottleneck identification RBI is a new testing methodology that allows quality...; Tags: Oracle Corp., QA, On-demand, Web Application, Video, Rapid Bottleneck Identification, Cloud Computing, Managed Hosting, Corporate Communications, Performance Management, Marketing, Human Resources, Workforce Management; Webcasts 2009-10-01
Winning the quality war: HP customers offer case studies on managing application performance: Quality early in application development sounds nice, but actually making it happen brings significant cost savings, repeatable quality assurance processes, higher user satisfaction, and shorter development cycles. The results reward developers, end users, and IT operators alike. by Dana Gardner; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., QA, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2009-06-19
Meridian Knowledge Solutions, LLC Streamlines Application Testing and Reduces Product Complaints: Meridian Knowledge Solutions wanted to redefine the responsibilities and accountability of quality assurance, particularly with the Meridian Global LMS product and meet customer needs to deploy applications faster, at lower cost and risk, and with higher quality of service. The challenge was to keep up with constant code changes, requirement...; Tags: Oracle Corp., QA; Case studies 2009-04-01
QA Wizard Pro 2009 (Windows): QA Wizard Pro completely automates the functional and regression testing of Web, Windows, and Java applications, helping quality assurance teams increase test coverage and deliver high quality solutions faster. Built on a flexible architecture that is easily extended to support new technologies and frameworks, Seapine Software's QA Wizard Pro can...; Tags: QA, Java, Microsoft Windows, Seapine Software; Software downloads 2009-03-31
Software Quality Assurance for the Insurance Industry: As part of their competitiveness strategy, the Client needed to reduce IT services costs while improving the overall quality of their applications, minimize the failures in production that hampered their brokers and agencies operations, as well as find a way to assure that all new applications did not have quality...; Tags: Software, Software Quality Assurance, QA, Information Technology, Insurance, Softtek, Strategy, Management; Case studies 2009-02-26

Why Outsource Testing?: Corporations around the globe are under pressure to survive in a harsh economic environment. Outsourcing has become main stream for many industries and particularly in the area of software development. When economic times are difficult, reducing cost while increasing quality is a value equation that cannot be ignored. For organizations...; Tags: QA, Outsource, Outsourcing, Managed Hosting, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management; White papers 2009-02-03
New Tool Boosts HP QA Management: Sevak Markarian, QA Section Manager for HP, recalls a time when quality assurance was a lot simpler. QA professionals were in charge of testing only. Development projects were more siloed and less complex. They wanted to implement effective QA project management to ensure real-time visibility into project status, more effective...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., QA, Tool, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, It Operations, It service Management, Management; Case studies 2009-01-01
The Application Quality Dilemma: Why Testing Alone Doesn't Guarantee Quality: Although many companies today are striving toward better quality, they still find it tough to size up their testing efforts. While testing tools allow executing more tests and finding more problems, research has shown that companies that consistently applied a formal QA methodology reported double the improvement in application quality...; Tags: QA, Compuware Corp.; Webcasts 2009-01-01
Requirements-Driven Testing: The Journey From Business Needs to Test and User Acceptance: Requirements-Driven Testing RDT is a sure-fire way to improve project outcomes. With nearly two-thirds of IT projects failing, the pressure is on to strengthen the connection between requirements and the QA and test processes. With an RDT approach, one can improve the quality of the requirements, involve QA earlier in...; Tags: QA; Webcasts 2009-01-01
Successful Agile with HP Quality Center - Market leading software for Quality Assurance: Agile software development is quickly becoming the preferred way to build mission-critical software systems. However, if it is not implemented properly customers can run the risk of increasing costs and loss of quality instead of making teams more effective. There are frequently challenges among stakeholders, problems...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., QA, HP Quality Center, HP Quality Center Suite, Software Development, Team Management, Tools & Techniques, Development Tools, Middleware, Software/Web Development, Management, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2009-01-01
Tough Love with openSUSE 11.1: openSUSE 11.1 is packed full of features, but a lack of QA and user acceptance testing in this release may cause Linux newbies to seek out other distributions, such as Ubuntu Ibex. I wanted to love openSUSE 11.1. I really did. ...; Tags: Ubuntu, Release, QA, Server, openSUSE 11.1, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-12-18
Phishers apply quality assurance, start validating credit card numbers: Phishers apply quality assurance, start validating credit card numbersVery old newsThe "Paypal Omega Watch Dispute" phishing campaign of early 2006 used a number of user input validation techniques, including the Luhn algorithm.Use cancelled "valid" card numbersI sometimes will attempt to poison the phishing stuff using old card numbers I used...; Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, Sales channel, Viruses and worms, phishing, credit card, credit card number, QA; Discussion threads 2008-10-31
Phishers apply quality assurance, start validating credit card numbers: With the exact number of end users interacting with phishing emails by submitting bogus data still unknown, phishers are on the other hand continuing to apply basic quality assurance processes ensuring that they will be collecting only validated credit card details, and limiting the opportunity for researchers and end users...; Tags: QA, Credit Card, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-10-30
My Awesome IT Job: Vice President of Security, SuccessFactors: Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from an IT pro that loves their work. ...; Tags: Security, QA, SuccessFactors Inc., Information Technology, Strategy, Management, Deb Perelman; Blog posts 2008-09-26
White Paper: Moving Up the QA Maturity Ladder: Inefficient QA practices lead to increased defects, lower customer satisfaction, inefficient schedules, lower employee morale and many other ills that affect bottom line numbers by increasing costs. In the white paper titled "Moving Up the QA Maturity Ladder," MDI Group outlines ways organizations can use the three-phase QA Maturity Assessment...; Tags: QA; White papers 2008-09-08
VMware blames stray code for 'time bomb' hiccup: VMware blames stray code for 'time bomb' hiccupWell..I wonder how much money this cost them? I was almost about to buy hosting using that, but decided against it. Thank God, I hate legal battles.RE: VMware blames stray code for 'time bomb' hiccupSerious mistake! Fire your entire QA team.RE: VMware blames...; Tags: VMware Inc., QA; Discussion threads 2008-08-13
Making Mobile Application Testing Easier: Getting on the Inside Track in QA Management Tools: This white paper describes the landscape of mobile application QA, focusing on the management tools used by mobile software companies, publishers and aggregators. Its target audience includes QA staff responsible for specifying, implementing and monitoring testing programs and executives responsible for the cost-effectiveness of the workforce. The white paper explores...; Tags: Mobile, QA, Mobile Application, Tool; White papers 2008-08-05
Oracle Insurance Policy Administration System Quality Assurance Testing Methodology: Quality Assurance QA testing involves assessing the operation of a system or application under controlled conditions normal and abnormal and evaluating the results. QA testing intentionally attempts to make things go wrong to determine if the system is operating according to product design and development specifications and user expectations. The...; Tags: Oracle Corp., QA, Insurance, Oracle Insurance Policy Administration System; White papers 2008-08-01
SOA Software, iTKO team up to offer SOA lifecycle management and QA: I took a briefing recently on LISA and was really impressed with the approach and value. It's worth a look if you're not familiar with iTKO. by Dana Gardner; Tags: Team, SOA Software Inc., QA, Lifecycle Management, iTKO, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-06-14
QA File Fix 1.2 (Windows): Undelete files and recover data from damaged disks and corrupted partitions in a just few easy steps. Simply pick a disk from the list, and QA File Fix will do the recovery completely automatically. The innovative recovery algorithms scan the entire surface of the hard drive in order to locate...; Tags: QA, Microsoft Windows, QA Software; Software downloads 2008-05-25