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Basics of Web Security Testing (AppLabs) |
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Exposing systems to the internet increases the risk
that security weaknesses in those systems will be
leveraged to compromise the system or the underlying
data. This white paper provides basics of Web Security
Testing proving information to examine the actual
business risks this brings, understand the basic
difficulties in implementing "secure systems",
and adequately test internet applications for security,
as well as functionality and load performance, before
they are exposed to the net. |
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| Load
Testing SOAs which Utilize Web Services- How to
Leverage Existing Tools when Testing Service-Oriented
Architectures Based on Web (AppLabs) |
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web services operate across HTTP connections, any
protocol-level load testing tool that you already
have available should be capable of load testing
web services as well as end-user web sites. Thsi
white paper provides details on Load Testing SOAP
based web services that are directly implemented
using the web's HTTP protocol. |
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Usability
and Its Assessment & Evaluation - Introductory
Note
by Arunkumar
Khannur |
| Usability
rules the Web. Simply stated, if the customer can’t
find a product, then he or she will not buy it.
The Web is the ultimate customer-empowering environment.
He or she who clicks the mouse gets to decide everything.
It is so easy to go elsewhere; all the competitors
in the world are but a mouse click away. - JAKOB
NIELSEN (2000A) |
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| Article
on Successfully Implementing Testing in your Organization
by Srinivasan
Desikan |
The
ultimate goal of every organization is to prevent
the defects in the product (eradicate them before
they take form), by good processes, rather than
finding and fixing them. The testing should be
reduced dramatically to “qualify a product”,
with less focus on finding defects and more focus
on “defect prevention”. This objective
should always remain in the minds of test engineers
and test managers for building an effective test
organization.
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Article
on Test Methodology for an Effective Regression
Testing
by Srinivasan
Desikan |
There
are several definitions and perspectives exist in
the industry. The purpose of this article is to
bring the best breed of those definitions and methodologies
based on the personal experience of an author in
software product companies.
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Article on Scalability/ Performance Testing
of Server Software
by Srinivasan
Desikan |
The
article is intended to discuss the concepts of performance
and scalability testing with respect to four resources
CPU, disk, memory and network. The four resources
are related to each other and we need to completely
understand their relationship to implement the strategy
for scalability and performance testing.
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Article
on BASEL
II Impact on IT Systems & Testing for
Compliance
(AppLabs) |
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white paper gives an overview of the impact
of the BASEL II accord on IT systems for international
and national banks and illustrates the approach
that needs to be taken to ensure the systems
are tested for compliance. |
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on Faster
Payments Service Impact on IT Systems and
Testing for Compliance (AppLabs)
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| This
white paper describes the Faster Payments
Service (FPS) and the impact it will have
on IT systems, and illustrates the approach
that needs to be taken to ensuring that the
organization can participate successfully
in the scheme. |
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| Article
on MiFID
(the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive)
(AppLabs) |
| MiFID
(the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive)
comes into effect on 1st November 2007. MiFID
replaces the existing Investment Services
Directive (ISD) and is intended to create
a more open, competitive and transparent market
for financial services across the European
Union. Existing restrictive practices, such
as limiting trade in some countries to national
exchanges or bourses, will be outlawed. |
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| Article
on PCI
DSS Compliance An Overview (AppLabs)
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growth of online services to facilitate ease
of use for customers to purchase goods has
grown exponentially over recent years. In
order to make this process easier, customers
generally pay for the services or goods by
credit or debit card. However, improved efficiency
and convenience for the consumer mean crime
has also become easier and more convenient.
Criminals have become more skillful having
discovered that there is a significant amount
of money to be acquired with very little risk
and as such, credit card fraud and identity
theft have become much more common place in
recent years. Network infrastructures that
are utilized commercially necessitate absolute
security due to the sensitive personal information
which they contain. Every company that accepts
credit card payments, processes credit card
transactions, stores credit card data, or
in any other way touches personal or sensitive
data associated with credit |
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Article
on Thinking
hats that make Software Testing effective
b y Anuj Magazine |
"ABB:
Reduced multinational project meetings from
30 days to 2 days."
"MobiFon-Connex: Average speed to answer
a customer phone call went down from 225
seconds to 40 seconds."
These are results that are nothing short
of a miracle. These are the numbers which
are indeed an epitome of improvement by
all standards. This immediately brings a
question to our minds, "How is this
possible?" How much resources these
organizations would have put in to get there?
The answer to this lies in Edward de Bono's
brainchild on thinking performance, "Six
Thinking Hats". Yes, these results
are a testimonial on the extent of success
that can be achieved by "just"
optimizing one's thinking. Aren't the results
astonishing?
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