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Testing for the Five Most Dangerous Security Vulnerabilities[presentation]

Today, secure applications are vital for every organization. Security attacks seem to come from every corner of the globe. If your applications are breached, your organization could lose millions.

Joe Basirico, Security Innovation LLC
Ruby And WATIR: Your New Test Automation Tools[presentation]

Ready to start writing your own test scripts? Not sure of what tools to use? Kalen Howell discovered Ruby, a powerful scripting language that is easy to learn. Using Ruby led Kalen to WATIR, an open source tool written in Ruby.

Kalen Howell, LexisNexis
Implementing a Final Regression Test Process[presentation]

After applications move into production, it is vital that subsequent additions or modifications are thoroughly tested and that the entire system is re-tested to ensure that it still functions after these changes.

Jeff Tatelman, Avaya
Quantifying the Value of Your Testing to Management[presentation]

Congratulations, you're a true testing expert. You know all there is to know about test planning, design, execution and reporting, performance tests, usability tests, regression tests, agile, SCRUM, and all the rest. But it’s still

Arya Barirani, Mercury
Software Disasters and Lessons Learned[presentation]

Software defects come in many forms--from those that cause a brief inconvenience to those that cause fatalities.

Patricia McQuaid, Cal Poly State University
Security Testing: From Threat to Attack to Fix[presentation]

Based on his years of experience in security testing, Julian Harty believes that most system stakeholders don't understand-or even recognize-the need for security testing. Perhaps they will pay an external consultant to perform an

Julian Harty, Google, Inc.
STARWEST 2006: Positioning your Test Automation Team as a Product[presentation]

Test automation teams are typically created with the expectation of facilitating faster testing and higher product quality. To achieve these goals, the test

Satya Mantena, Nielsen Media Research
Back to the Beginning: Testing Principles Revisited[presentation]

In 1976, Glenford Myers listed a set of testing principles in his book Software Reliability. Computing has changed dramatically since those days! iPods have more computing power than the Apollo spacecraft. Testing has even been

Erik Petersen, Emprove
The Nine "Forgettings"[presentation]

People forget things. Simple things like keys, passwords, and the names of friends long ago. People forget more important things like passports, anniversaries, and backing up data. But Lee Copeland is concerned with things

Lee Copeland, Software Quality Engineering
Relating PMBOK Practices to Agile Practices--Part 4 of 4[article]

The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) outlines the specific actions required for proper quality management. In the conclusion of Michele Sliger's four-part column, she determines how compliance with the PMBOK practices correspond to activities that an agile team might perform.

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Agile06 - Jeff Nielsen - The Psychology of Build Times[article]
Podcast

In this podcast, Jeff Nielsen and Bob Payne discuss previous presentations that the two have given, and Jeff's more recent session on the psychology of build times that he gave at Agile 2006. We invite you to listen in to their conversation about a variety of subjects.

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Agile06 - Bob Martin - Fitness, New Book and the Conference[article]
Podcast

Bob Payne and Bob Martin sit down for another great conversation on all things agile during this podcast recorded at Agile 2006.

Bob Payne's picture Bob Payne
Agile06 - Michael Spayd - Cogility and Agile Transformation[article]
Podcast

Michael Spayd and Bob Payne sit down to discuss Michael's years of work, and his wide variety of experiences working on agile projects. We invite you to listen to this podcast to learn more about agile's applications on projects of all shapes and sizes.

Bob Payne's picture Bob Payne
More Stress, Less Distress[magazine]

An overwhelmingly harsh test will expose dramatic vulnerabilities, but stress testing requires sensitivity to the unexpected. In this article, Michael Bolton directs readers out of the automated-testing comfort zone and toward better methods of spotting unanticipated problems.

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Transitioning to Agility - Sanjiv Augustine, Thad Sheer, Bob Payne, and Cliff Berg[article]
Podcast

This podcast offers the unique opportunity to hear an entire group of agile experts all sitting down to discuss everything agile, especially the challenges of those transitioning to agile for the very first time. Sanjiv Augustine, Thad Sheer, Bob Payne, and Cliff Berg are all featured in this session.

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