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DemoCharge 2005 1.1.1.9 (Windows)

Create Flash, Java, animated GIF, and executable demos for inclusion in animated e-mails, documents, and help files. Replace static screenshots with GIF animations recorded by capturing your desktop. DemoCharge allows you to capture screen activity to create animated demos and content for the Web, e-mails, tutorials, presentations, training materials, product...

Tags: GIF, Software Testing, Microsoft Windows, YesSoftware, DemoCharge

Software downloads 2009-07-27

"New Software Testing Quadrant" - A Tool to Help Choose the Right Testing Partner

With globalization sweeping through the financial services industry at an unprecedented rate, companies in the finance sector are especially impacted due to deluge of legislative initiatives designed to protect consumers, reduce financial risk, minimize operational risk and preserve company integrity. The expanded complexity and distribution of today's systems brings a...

Tags: Software, Financial, Software Testing, Tool, Thinksoft Global Services, Globalization, Financial Accounting, Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Personal Finance, Strategy, Management, Finance, Software/Web Development

White papers 2009-07-01

Automated Software Testing Enables Both Faster Cycles, and Higher Quality Applications

Major Defense Contractor wanted to ensure software applications meet client quality, functionality requirements. Major Defense Contractor leveraged automated testing and test management tools. This resulted in end-to-end management of requirements, defects and test processes and defect alerts e-mailed automatically to developers. There were fast test setup, ability to schedule and...

Tags: Software, Hewlett-Packard Co., Software Testing, Defense Contractor, Aerospace & Defense, Tools & Techniques, Manufacturing, Management

Case studies 2009-03-01

Testuff 1.2 (Windows)

Testuff is a hosted software test management service. Testuff's most exciting feature is its ability to record the tested application and attach the resulting video to the defect reports. It is a fully featured test management suite that includes test creation and organization, iteration planning, test execution, and automatic defect...

Tags: Software Testing, Microsoft Windows, Testuff

Software downloads 2008-12-21

A Foray Into Cloud-Based Software Testing

Modern Software Development entails many challenges e.g. rapidly changing business scenario, rising complexity, shorter time to market, ensuring agility without compromising on the quality. Agile methodology for Modern Software Development includes many practices such as automated source code analysis for reviewing the architecture / design / code review, frequent build...

Tags: Software, Software Testing, Patni Computer Systems Inc., Software Development, Tools & Techniques, Development Tools, Software/Web Development, Management

White papers 2008-11-24

Why You Should Outsource Your Software Testing

Market research studies show that 40% of unplanned application downtime is caused by application failures or "Bugs"; 40% by application errors and only 20% by hardware, environmental factors or disasters. Therefore, 80% of unplanned downtime can be alleviated by improvement of IT processes, pre-deployment testing and complete operations training. But...

Tags: Software, Software Testing, Outsource, Outsourcing Factory, Managed Hosting, Outsourcing, Tools & Techniques, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management

White papers 2008-11-12

Software Tester Upgrades Environment for Enhanced Performance and Service

Beijing Software Testing & QA Center BSTQC runs a render farm that uses high-performance computing to help customers produce animation and special effects. The organization upgraded its render farm from the first generation of Windows HPC to Windows HPC Server 2008, which helped increased performance by 15 percent and improved...

Tags: Performance, Environment, Software Testing, Monitoring, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Performance Management, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Case studies 2008-11-01

Software Testing With Visual Studio Team System

Adequate testing of software projects is critical to ensuring high quality. The attendee of this learn how the Microsoft Visual Studio Team System product family can be used to test the distributed application from end-to-end, through all stages of the application lifecycle, starting with the earliest development and reaching into...

Tags: Software, Microsoft Visual Studio, Team, Software Testing, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Development Tools, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Webcasts 2008-10-18

Stop brain-dead software testing!

Stop brain-dead software testing!re: Stop brain-dead software testingin reality, its not usually software testing that's the problem. it's the project stakeholders who don't plan enough time to do adequate testing. it's the programmers who go way over their time estimates. it's the program managers or similar role...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, software testing, software

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

Stop brain-dead software testing!

Lousy software testing damages many IT projects. When testing doesn't uncover obvious problems that prevent software from operating as users expect, then failed projects are inevitable. by Michael Krigsman

Tags: Software, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Software Testing, Failure, Erik Hollnagel, Tools & Techniques, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-10-03

Software Testing 1 (Windows)

During the software development process, errors are inevitably introduced and some of them are even amplified as a project progresses. To detect these errors so that they can be removed, we need to test the software. The success of testing depends on the test cases used. Considering that most software...

Tags: Software, Software Testing, Microsoft Windows, Edistalearning, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2008-07-10

Future of Software Testing

Change is a given and one can be sure that it will come in larger amounts and at increasing pace. No industry, least of all software engineering, is immune from change and therefore none is immune from risk. The changes in software development will require software testing to develop in...

Tags: Software, Software Testing, AppLabs, Tools & Techniques, Management

White papers 2008-07-07

Vienna 2 2.0 (Windows)

Vienna Desktop Edition 2.0 contains numerous features to assist you with your software testing projects. V2 can be utilized for Test Management, User Acceptance Testing, Training, Requirements Management, Defect Management and more. V2 can be integrated with automation testing applications and also provides some ground breaking innovations: Automatically Generate...

Tags: Software Testing, Microsoft Windows, NMQA, Vienna Desktop Edition 2.0

Software downloads 2008-07-04

Software Testing: Good Practice Vs. Bad Practice

The importance of 'Best Practice' is echoed throughout the IT industry. However, is implementing best practice always the best solution for organization's needs? This paper looks at the benefits best practice can bring to test process and will also appraise the case for adopting 'Good Practice' as a more pragmatic...

Tags: Software, Software Testing, Best Practice, AppLabs

White papers 2008-05-02

Identity Patrol 2 (Windows)

Identity Patrol was originally developed as an advanced tool to protect your online identity from any attempt to access your personal information. Our users quickly realized that although the program was engineered to protect against identity theft, the process of which it accomplished this made it an extremely powerful anti-spyware...

Tags: System Monitoring, Software Testing, Microsoft Windows, Identity, Patrol Software, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security

Software downloads 2008-03-28

A Laboratory Exercise in Testing Database Applications

For years one has been involved in teaching several Software Engineering courses, including a module of software testing. However, due to the time assignments, software testing includes only the main concepts along with black-box and white-box techniques. Exercises carried out by the students include the design of tests form a...

Tags: Software, Database, Software Testing, Student, Tools & Techniques, Management

White papers 2008-01-01

Effective Software Testing: An Approach to Better Products

The cost of fixing a software defect is cheaper if the defect is detected in the phase in which it was introduced. Yet in many projects of strategic importance, this testing is only an after thought. Traditionally, testing is associated only with the end product. And, in many IT organizations,...

Tags: Software, Software Testing, Jupitermedia Corp., Tools & Techniques, Management

White papers 2007-12-26

Software Testing 3.0: The Continuing Evolution of Software Testing

This paper traces the evolution of software testing through its first two phases, and then presents the current state-of-the-practice: Software Testing 3.0, an independent and strategic approach to software quality. The paper concludes with a discussion for senior executives on how and why software testing can finally...

Tags: Software, Software Testing

White papers 2007-12-19

OpenSTA 1.4.4 (Windows)

OpenSTA is a distributed software testing architecture designed around CORBA, it was originally developed to be commercial software by CYRANO. The current toolset has the capability of performing scripted HTTP and HTTPS heavy load tests with performance measurements from Win32 platforms. However, the architectural design means it could be capable...

Tags: Software Testing, Microsoft Windows, Daniel Sutcliffe, OpenSTA, Corba, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2007-11-04

The Great Software Testing Swindle

The vast majority of tools available use scripting language which is fundamentally limiting, requiring specialist technical skills which can be difficult to find and expensive to hire. For someone who had bought a house that had only a coal fire in the lounge, he or she would immediately install central...

Tags: Software, Software Testing, Original Software

White papers 2007-10-01