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Open & Community Driven Software Quality

In his blog titled Future Of Testing , Aditya Dada talks of the novel open and community based approach to testing and software quality taken by the Glassfish Quality Team.

Fortify 360 Release Aims At Eliminating Security Vulnerabilities In Software

Fortify 360 is a suite of integrated solutions for identifying, prioritizing and fixing security vulnerabilities in software while managing the business of ensuring application security. The cornerstone of Fortify's recently announced Business Software Assurance framework, Fortify 360 executes on the company's holistic approach to protecting corporate assets and preventing catastrophic data loss by focusing on the most vulnerable area in the enterprise -- the software applications that automate critical business processes.

Test cases for testing website cookies

We will first focus on what exactly cookies are and how they work. It would be easy for you to understand the test cases for testing cookies when you have clear understanding of how cookies work. How are cookies stored on hard drive? And how can we edit cookie settings?

Testers Meet To Formalize Anti-Malware Testing Standards

More than 40 security software technologists and anti-malware testers from around the world recently met in Bilbao, Spain to formalize the charter of the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization, or AMTSO. The formation of AMTSO has been driven by industry- wide concern about the increasing mismatch between what anti-malware technologies actually do, and the testing methodologies used to evaluate them. As anti-malware solutions become more complex, many existing tests are unable to evaluate product effectiveness properly, resulting in product reviews that are sometimes incomplete, inaccurate and misleading.

Squish Automated GUI Testing Tool 3.3

Froglogic GmbH today announced version 3.3 of the leading, cross-platform automated GUI testing tool Squish. Squish supports creating and running automated GUI tests of applications based on a variety of user interface technologies including Trolltech's Qt toolkit, Java AWT/Swing/NetBeans, Java SWT/Eclipse RCP/JFaces, Web/HTML/AJAX and Mac OS X Carbon/Cocoa. Squish is being successfully used in QA departments across the world in companies such as Reuters Financial Software, EADS, Siemens, Synopsys, Xilinx, Trolltech and France Telecom Group.