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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 [...]

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 [...]

Different Flavours of Waterfall and Agile Development

Here’s a quick and simple overview of the main differences between Waterfall Development, Iterative Waterfall Development, Scrum/Agile Development and Lean by Agile101.net Waterfall Development ‘Waterfall Development’ is another name for the more traditional approach to software [...]

Software Checker or Tester

Michael Bolton is one of the well respected and experienced software testing guru around. And he has posted this series of Testing vs Checking articles on his blog. In one of the introductory posts he has [...]