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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

Aspects of Software Quality Assurance in Open Source Software Projects: Two Case Studies From Apache Project

Open Source Software OSS solutions provide mission critical services to industry and government organizations. This paper provides a preliminary exploration to improve ones understanding of software quality practices in different types of OSS projects. The paper proposes a framework of QA in an OSS project, elicit OSS stakeholder value propositions...

Tags: Software, Software Quality Assurance, QA, Open-source Software, Apache Software Foundation, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Management

White papers 2007-06-08

The Business of Software Quality: Virtusa's Innovative Software Quality Assurance Approach

The software industry has witnessed a dramatic rise in the impact and effectiveness of software quality assurance recently. From its day of infancy, when a handful of software pioneers explored the first applications of quality assurance, to the development of software, software quality assurance has become integrated into all phases...

Tags: Software, Software Quality Assurance, Virtusa, Tools & Techniques, Management

White papers 2007-04-13

Software Quality Assurance of Management Processes Using Core Measures

Software Quality Assurance SQA without measures is like a jet with no fuel. Everyone is ready to go but not much happens. This paper deals with the SQA activities to ensure the right fuel is available to reach the destination, namely high quality. There are three processes, common to both...

Tags: Software, Software Quality Assurance, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations

White papers 2001-09-19

Additional Resources

vTask Studio (formerly VistaTask) 7.71 (Windows)

vTask Studio gives you the opportunity to control every aspect of your computer, such as the keyboard, mouse and Web actions, without needing to write any programming code. vTask Studio is useful in many different scenarios, such as software quality assurance testing, IT administration jobs, repetitive data entry, program installations,...

Tags: Vista Software, vTask Studio, Internet, Microsoft Windows, Keyboards, Mice, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2009-11-17

Rumor: Apple to awaken dormant FM tuner in iPhone

I bet there will be an activation feeApple beat its M$ mentor when it comes to ripping cult members off.More BS from AppleWhat a scam they have running. Create a product with all kinds of disabled features, and then slowly enable them later one by one in lieu of real...

Tags: rationale, Apple Inc., car, Apple iPhone, FM Tuner

Discussion threads 2009-10-14

FlexiServer 1.66 (Windows)

FlexiServer is a solution to create a flexible work environment with automatic employee time attendance logging. In addition to tracking staff hours, the software features tools for quality assurance monitoring and reporting, and works perfectly with home or remote based staff. FlexiServer is the modern replacement for a staff hours...

Tags: Hour, Monitoring, Microsoft Windows, Computer, NCH Software, FlexiServer, Productivity

Software downloads 2009-10-08

Annual cost of IT failure: $6.2 trillion

I'm not buying their claims.. It looks like they're declaring all IT activities as a failure which is patently ridiculous.. The companies I support rarely experience a failure. I do the product evaluations up front and determine if a product is worthy of purchase and deployment. I use...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, software, CPU, information technology, IT Failure

Discussion threads 2009-09-30

Who is the 90-day Windows 7 Enterprise trial aimed at exactly?

I don't understand you blog? You don't think there are not many businesses and organizations out there in the SMB market, for example, that fall into a large group that could benefit from trying windows 7 out? Are you saying buying a copy would be better? I don't get...

Tags: Adrian, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-09-02

Developer calls for Apple to eliminate App Store review process

Joe Hewitt, a software developer best known for his work on Facebook for iPhone and early Firefox, has a radical proposal about how to fix the App Store: eliminate App Store review process completely. While I agree with the spirit of Hewitt's argument, it will never happen....

Tags: Developer, Apple Inc., App, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-08-25

DOJ gives blessing to Oracle-Sun, awaiting EC approval

Yeah but...Sure wish they'd fire McNealy & Schwartz, then it would make it all worthwhile.Michael Murdock, CEOWell I never liked Oracle anyway......good way for Oracle to shoot itself in the foot. :)Did you know that large snakes can misjudge prey and try to eat something too big? Then they literally...

Tags: Linux, Processors, UNIX, Operating systems, Microsoft development tools, U.S. Department of Justice, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-08-20

Read the fine print in Microsoft's new application platform license

Read the fine print in Microsoft's new application platform licenseAs it should be...You need to pay to play with these fine products. If a company is so short-sighted that they let their APA run out, they deserve to be stripped of all products covered under said APA. Microsoft is slaving...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Operational accounting, new application platform, Microsoft Corp., fine print, application platform, APA

Discussion threads 2009-07-16

Does free antivirus offer a false feeling of security?

Earlier this month, Symantec's product manager David Hall dismissed free security software as equal alternative to the paid versions, and also described  Microsoft's free "Microsoft Security Essentials" as "a stripped down version of the OneCare product Microsoft pulled from retail shelves". Needless to  say that such statements...

Tags: Antivirus, Antivirus Scanner, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-07-14

Borland Agile Testing Survey Results 2009 - Update

The driver for this paper was to understand in greater detail the needs of Quality Assurance QA organizations in Agile software delivery projects. Borland is managing its own Agile transformation and has discovered challenges that appear to be consistent with other enterprises who have embarked on a company - wide...

Tags: Borland Software Corp., Survey, Agile Software, Marketing Research, Marketing

White papers 2009-07-01

Microsoft sets pointless 25-PC upgrade limit for Windows 7

Microsoft sets pointless 25-PC upgrade limit for Windows 7Come on Adrian: Yet again another W7 limitation?Well that is what it looks like. There's the word right at the top of the page in the title of this story even.Can't wiggle out of this one Windows Folks.Of course, I will...

Tags: KMS, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-06-29

Microsoft study debunks profitability of the underground economy

Cybercrime, what cybercrime and millions of dollars in profits?! A newly released paper presented by Cormac Herley and Dinei Florencio at this year's  Workshop on the Economics of Information Security 2009 entitled "Nobody Sells Gold for the Price of Silver: Dishonesty, Uncertainty and the Underground Economy" debunks...

Tags: Web, Credit Card, Seller, Malware, Microsoft Corp., Cybercriminal, Economy, Cybercrime-as-a-Service, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Sales Channel, Viruses And Worms, Financial Services, Security, Sales, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-06-05

Coating Excellence International - Manuafacturer Gains Real-Time Production Data, Reduces Licensing Costs by 15 Percent

Coating Excellence International CEI manufactures high-quality, flexible-packaging products using environmentally friendly practices. To continue to enhance its quality and efficiency, CEI needed to provide its shop-floor operators and business decision makers with real-time production metrics and analysis tools in a solution that was quick to deploy and easy to manage...

Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Corp., Coating Excellence International, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Management, Software, Data Management

White papers 2009-05-21

Enter Argentina as a nearshore destination...

Enter Argentina as a nearshore destination...Very good articleEven though Argentina can't compete in size with India or other traditional outsourcing destination, it can compete in quality and most importantly in convenience.My company Belatrix Software Factory (www.belatrixsf.com) has been competing succesfuly for the last 8 years from Mendoza, Argentina and offering...

Tags: Enter Argentina

Discussion threads 2009-05-06

Enabling Security in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

New security vulnerabilities are found almost daily. When they are, the affected software must be retrofitted with an appropriate patch while companies fend off the wrath of customers. Applications have become the most fertile ground for attackers to ply their trade - seeking out the seemingly innocuous features and utilities...

Tags: Software, Cenzic Inc., Software Development, Development Tools, Security, Tools & Techniques, Software/Web Development, Management

White papers 2009-05-01

Books: Entering the Age of Glosses

Here's the key to thinking about the future of writing, something straight out of the manuscript era: the humble gloss or "scholia," for those who prefer the Latin. They are the notes, in margins, footnotes at the bottom of a page (the standard starting around 1700) and later in the...

Tags: Movie, Audible Inc., Cryptography, Books, Copy, Kindle, Master File, Page Number, E-books, Digital Security, Security, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-04-27