“Why We Make Mistakes” in Test Automation

August 29, 2011

Test automation in general, and specifically scripted automation, is an essential component of any software testing effort. Advocating the appropriate use of automation in testing has been a major focus of mine since I started software testing over eight years ago. Recently, I have been reading the book “Why We Make Mistakes” by Joseph T. [...]

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App Store/App Market Challenges – Quality and Quantity of Apps – Part 1

August 25, 2011

Millions of apps, billions of downloads, thousands of mobile devices, hundreds of app stores/app markets/app shops (or whatever you may want to call them )– Everyone is talking about only the numbers. Of course, quantity is important, but what about the quality? Until now, the app stores’ focus has been on lowering the barriers to [...]

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Vulnerability Assessment III

August 25, 2011

Goal of Vulnerability Assessment Goal of network vulnerability assessment is to verify whether all deployed applications / special purpose servers are working normally without any major vulnerability/flaws or not. If we look at basic network structure we have some Antivirus , HIPS (Host based intruder prevention system), NIDS (Network based intruder detection system), NIPS(Network based [...]

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The Million Dollar Bug: Discover it before it discovers you!

August 24, 2011

Every CEO, CIO, QA manager, designer and developer wants to build a perfect software application; a robust application that performs under all circumstances and all times. Absolutely no lapse in quality is tolerated by end-users or by other stake holders. In most cases, the buck stops at Quality Assurance manager’s desk. QA leaders need to [...]

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Vulnerability Assessment – ||

August 11, 2011

In previous blog post we understood about what is vulnerability and what is exploit. In this blog post we will look at why any organization should go for vulnerability assessment? And what is the major difference between Penetration Testing and Vulnerability assessment. We will take a look at ISO 27001 requirement for vulnerability assessment. Why [...]

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Vulnerability Assessment – Part I

August 10, 2011

This series blog post is going to give you some details regarding vulnerability, what is vulnerability assessment, why vulnerability assessment. It will not give you in depth idea about the vulnerability assessment but it will give you basic understating about the above mentioned topics. In computer terms vulnerability means weakness. This weakness may be due [...]

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What can engineering teams learn from successful sports teams?

August 8, 2011

While sports and engineering seem to inhabit two different worlds,there is something that engineering teams can learn from successful sports teams who not only succeed in getting to the top but stay on top for a long time and establish new standards while staying on top. Strategize off the field/Execute on the field Teams always [...]

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Performance Monitoring of ASP.Net Application – Part 2 : Tools

August 8, 2011

Preface: I hope you may have enjoyed the first part of this series “Performance Monitoring of ASP.Net Application”. Now as we have got basic information about the performance monitoring of the ASP.Net application using performance counters, you may have found the problamatic areas of application and now it is time to dig more into the application [...]

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WordPress Security

August 3, 2011

WordPress Security: Any CMS like WordPress can be affected by two major factors when it is in public or protected environment. Environmental Issues (Hosting Environment) Configuration Issues (Plugins, Modules) Environmental Issues: 1.       Threat: Fuzzing attack Countermeasure: Implement IPS Attackers try to attack on any server using fuzzing. Fuzzing will increase number of user request on [...]

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Web Application Security and Guidelines

August 3, 2011

The e-commerce applications seem to be very secure from network, but  if application core or platform itself is vulnerable, then anyone can easily hack or compromise them. Let us take an example of e-commerce portal. There are 3 ways to access this portal: User can just visit the website (Surf) User can visit and make [...]

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