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100+ Open Source/Free Security Tools

Posted by Jay Philips On 6 October 2009 28 Commented

Security testing is a process to determine that an IS (Information System) protects data and maintains functionality as intended.
The six concepts that need to be covered by security testing are: confidentiality, integrity, authentication, authorization, availability, and non-repudiation.
Confidentiality: A security measure which protects against the disclosure of information to parties other than the intended recipient(s). Often [...]

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15+ Open Source Test Management Tools

Posted by Jay Philips On 10 September 2009 26 Commented

Test Management tools are very important to any test team. Test teams use these tools to help capture requirements, design test cases, map test cases to requirements, test execution reports and much more. Companies may use one to many tools for this, which range from very expensive to open source. My advice would [...]

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100+ Open Source/Free Functional Testing Tools

Posted by Jay Philips On 4 August 2009 21 Commented

It is very important to make sure that your application functions as expected. There may be times that you add one little piece of code and all of a sudden other parts of the application no longer works. You may not have time/capacity to manually go back and regression test all the pieces [...]

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List of Helpful Sites for Xcelsius

Posted by Jay Philips On 12 May 2009 11 Commented

Xcelsius allows you to create interactive dashboards for your personal use or your organization. You can create the dashboards from Microsoft Excel or a live data source, and export your dashboard to a another format – Microsoft Office, Flash (SWF) files, Adobe PDF, and Adobe Air.
The dashboard I am currently working on uses Excel for [...]

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Recommended: Error Search and Collaboration Site

Posted by Jay Philips On 10 November 2008 No Commented

How many times have you searched for hours on an error but couldn’t find an answer. I stumbled upon a very cool site called bug.gd today that I thought I’d share with everyone else.
The site’s goal is “No one should ever have to solve an error that someone else already solved”. I think that is [...]

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Did you know?

Posted by Jay Philips On 7 November 2008 No Commented

Amazing facts about our period of history. This is a video from SonyBMG Rome 2008, very cool information.

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