News May 24th, 2013

More sponsors for TESTA

The organisers of the TESTA software testing awards have announced that following the recent news that eggPlant is to sponsor the ‘Best Mobile Project’ award, TechExcel and Sogeti have also confirmed their positions as sponsors. TechExcel, a leading provider of collaborative issue management software for various disciplines including software development and IT service will be sponsoring the Best Agile Project award, while Sogeti the UK’s leading provider of software testing services (Ovum, 2011) will be sponsoring the Testing Team of the Year award. The European Software Testing Awards (TESTA), is Europe’s premier platform designed to recognise and celebrate innovation in the software testing and quality.........

Apple 1 computer goes under the hammer

Tomorrow (May 25) collectors and Apple-aficionados will have the chance to buy one of the six surviving Apple I computers still in working order. Last November the same Auction Team, Breker of Cologne, Germany, made inte[...]

Two new judges and two new sponsors for TESTA

We are pleased to announce that Tom Clark and Brindusa Axon have joined the panel of judges for the TESTA European Software Testing Awards, and in other good news, two new sponsors, Capita and TestPlant, have come on boa[...]

50% increase in number of business apps moving to mobile

CIOs say it takes an average of five months to deliver new versions of mobile applications for existing mobile device updates, confirming they cannot keep up with device vendors releasing updates every couple of months. [...]

Speakers announced for Agile on the Beach

This year’s Agile on the Beach will see speakers such as Dan North, hailed as the originator of Behaviour-Driven Development, Seb Rose, who has worked for many well-known companies, such as Amazon and IBM and Steve Fre[...]

Making the case for testing

Understanding the tester’s role in the cost of poor quality is crucial according to Karen Thomas, head of Test Practice at Barclaycard Professional Services & Development. Is it time to convince project managers ab[...]

App gold rush puts quality under pressure

New research in to software component vulnerability has shown that the drive to produce new apps is putting pressure on developers, leaving them little time for security measures to protects the apps’ integrity. “Son[...]

FCA investigates RBS IT Fiasco.

The Financial Conduct Authority is investigating last year’s technology failures at the Royal Bank of Scotland, according to the new regulator on Tuesday. The FCA said it had started a major investigation into the [...]

Open source quality report

Coverity has published its 2012 Scan Report into open source software defects. The report began as the largest public-private sector research project in the world focused on open source software quality and security. Ini[...]

TESTA Awards site goes live

A brand new web site dedicated to The European Software Testing Awards (TESTA), the independent awards programme designed to celebrate and promote excellence, best practice and innovation in the software testing and QA c[...]