Who Is on the Test Team?

As with all other software professions, the software testing profession has entry level skills, intermediate-level skills, and advanced skills. A good test team has a mix of skill levels represented by its members. This enables the more experienced testers to be responsible for the test planning, scheduling, and analysis of test results. The intermediate-level testers … Read more

The Four Primary Objectives of Testing

Testing can be applied to a wide range of development projects in a large number of industries. In contrast to the diversity of testing opportunities, there is a common underpinning of objectives. The primary motivation for testing all business development projects is the same: to reduce the risk of unplanned development expense or, worse, the … Read more

THE IMPORTANCE OF SOFTWARE TESTING

Software Testing: Testing Across the Entire Lifecycle provides the fundamental concepts and approaches to software testing. The topic is important for two reasons. First, according to US Government surveys there has been an estimated $59.5B in business losses since 2000 due to poor quality software. Second, based on the authors’ inability to fi nd experienced … Read more

IT Security Tools from Microsoft

Windows 10. Windows 10 is Microsoft’s most secure operating system yet.  Enterprise Mobility + Security.  Azure Active Directory Identity Protection.  Windows Information Protection.  Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) . Office 365 Data Loss Prevention.  Office 365 Advanced Security Management.  

Free Windows Tools

Toolwiz Time Freeze. Toolwiz Time Freeze is a system sandbox that puts your computer in a deep-freeze state – any changes you or any software make to your system is discarded after reboot.  Comodo Firewall.  Malwarebytes.  Wise Folder Hider.  Free Opener. WPS Office.  WordExpander.  doPDF.  

Google features

FIND THE BEST AND CHEAPEST FLIGHTS. There are a slew of travel sites including CheapTickets, Expedia, Hotwire, Kayak, Orbitz, Priceline, and Travelocity that help you book flights, hotels and vacations.  BUILD STUFF WITH LEGOS.  KEEP TRACK OF TIME.  TRANSLATE LANGUAGES.  COUNT CALORIES.  EXPLORE THE SKY.  USE GOOGLE LIKE A PRO.  

‘To think that technology alone will get us out of this hole is to live in cloud cuckoo land’: Mike Berners-Lee

When ‘There is No Planet B’ first hit our bookshops, this companion to saving the planet became an instant classic. We talk to its author, Mike Berners-Lee.  “Humans have quite suddenly become the biggest thing to affect the ecosystem,” says Mike Berners-Lee. What this new-found influence over the health of the planet means, says the … Read more