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- QA
- 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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- QA Wizard Pro (exe)
- QA Wizard Pro automates the functional and regression testing of Web and Windows applications, helping your QA team test more of an application in less time. An automated testing tool is only useful if it can test the technologies you use to develop applications. Some automated testing tools exclusively test...
- Tags: Automated Testing, QA, Seapine Software, QA Wizard Pro, Automated Testing Tool
- Software downloads 2008-07-10
- QA File Fix (exe)
- 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, QA Software
- Software downloads 2008-06-24
- 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 Disk Repair (exe)
- QA Disk Repair offers an easy way to recover files and documents from corrupted partitions and damaged hard disks, even if they are inaccessible or do not appear as a drive letter in Windows. Has algorithms for locating and recovering damaged files and repairing corrupted disks and partitions are combined...
- Tags: QA, QA Software, QA Disk Repair
- Software downloads 2008-05-23
- 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...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, QA, software, PCI-DSS, security
- 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,...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, Service Orientation, SOA, Enterprise Service Bus, QA, SOA Principles, messaging
- 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...
- Tags: Asset, QA, SOA, Wayne, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- 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...
- Tags: E-mail providers, QA failure, Yahoo Unlimited, QA, Yahoo! Inc., e-mail
- 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: ...
- Tags: QA, Yahoo! Inc., E-mail, Storage, Online Communications, Hardware, Michael Krigsman
- 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...
- Tags: Application, Performance, QA, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- 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....
- Tags: QA, Analyst
- 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...
- Tags: Developer, Mozilla Firefox, QA, Beta, Web Browsers, Internet, Paula Rooney
- 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...
- Tags: Software, Strategy, QA, Microsoft Corp., Application Lifecycle Management, Software Development, Tools & Techniques, Development Tools, Software/Web Development, Management
- 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,...
- Tags: QA, Decision-making, Health Care, ClinTools, Tools & Techniques, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
- 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...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., QA, Hacker, Application Security, 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." ...
- Tags: Laggard, Aberdeen Group Inc., QA, SOA, Automation, Joe McKendrick
- 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...
- Tags: Professional development, QA, development cycle, software
- 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...
- Tags: Software, Team, QA, Management, Michael Krigsman
- 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...
- Tags: Financial, QA, Stock, Software Development, Financial Accounting, Software/Web Development, Finance
- 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...
- Tags: Web, QA, Enterprise Integration, Ruby On Rails, Enterprise Software, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software
- Book chapters 2007-05-31
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