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The New Era and Project FOCUS

The New Era and Project FOCUS

Lot has changed in last 2 years for me, specially I completed 3 decades of my life and moved into my 30s. Recently also delivered a major project for my employer – called project FOCUS. It [...]

It’s official – We’re doing Exploratory Testing with Session Based Test Management

It’s official – We’re doing Exploratory Testing with Session Based Test Management

With increasing use of agile methodology, reducing budgets and ever chaning requirements I personally reckon ET (exploratory testing) is now more often required. We all do ET. Sometimes the deadlines are so tight that we have [...]

Clickjacking

Clickjacking is a malicious technique of tricking Web users into revealing confidential information or taking control of their computer while clicking on seemingly innocuous Web pages. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickjacking) Here is a simple example where [...]

Session Based Test Management with Confluence WIKI

Just a couple of quick notes: We are looking at integrating SBTM (Session Based Test Management) set of scripts to Confluence wiki. One of our experts in Enterprise Architecture team has already had some win with [...]

Phishing Example #2

One more quick example of a phishing email. As per the tip in my previous post: checkout the domain name. It is actually replaced by an IP address [...]

How Safe is that Link in Your Email?

OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) recently released OWASP Top 10 – 2010 rc1, their new Top Ten List of website vulnerabilities. At number eight (8) there is a new entry – A8 – UnvalidatedRedirects and [...]

The New QA Process

There have been numerous debates on the topic of Testing v/s Quality Assurance (QA). Like: QA has bigger scope than testing, testing is more effective, QA helps find issues earlier, etc. As per my understanding the [...]

Self-Discipline in Exploratory Testing

Self-Discipline in Exploratory Testing

I am a big fan of Exploratory Testing and I certainly agree with the author (of the following post) that it requires lot of self-discipline. Whether it is while planning, testing, analyzing or logging issues. The [...]

Quick Tip on When to Automate Testing

Earlier today jut exchanged few messages with Michael Bolton over Twitter. Here is a quick tip from him on when to automate the testing for a ‘broken link’. [...]

Direct Cost of Test Driven Development

Haven’t really had a first-hand experience of Test Driven Development, though have come across some real promoters of it. The two most common push back that I hear from developers or their managers for not being [...]