“More than machinery, we need humanity.” Charlie Chaplin. What does a quote from a 1940s movie starring Charlie Chaplin have to do with testing and well performing testing centres of excellence (TCE)? More than one would think according to Archie Roboostoff. In fact, some would say it forms the core of some of the best [...]

A new website focused on demonstrating real-world embedded software testing activities has been launched by Vector Software. The company, a provider of dynamic software test tools for embedded systems, says  the new website aids development organisations in evaluating test tools for embedded software applications by demonstrating how to test complex code samples. www.prweb.com//releases/2011/10/prweb8888216.htm

iTrinegy has announced that it has entered a reseller partnership with Spirent Communications to offer enhanced enterprise and cloud environment testing. iTrinegy’s Enterprise grade network emulation technology has been combined with Spirent Communications’ networks and applications performance testing solution, to crteate what the companies say is a first class networked application testing offering. As a [...]

A leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, has announced the deployment of its second Cloud Testlab, a turnkey cloud hosting test environment enabling service providers and system integrators to test and develop cloud services at high speed and with best-in-class performance guarantees. The Interxion Testlab deployment is a collaboration between Interxion, Flexiant, [...]

Fuzzing and security testing are to become part of education of IT professionals in Germany according to Finnish security testing specialist Codenomicon. The company and Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences have announced a cooperation agreement to help educate German IT professionals. Codenomicon’s Defensics software will be available for students in Security management programme in FH [...]

Seven UK business software companies have unified under a new senior management team and a single brand to form a supplier that they says is dedicated to meeting the requirements of mid-sized organisations. Calyx Software, Gyrosoft, Trinity Computer Services, and divisions of MentecPlus, Touchstone Group, Sys-Care, and Avant-Garde have been integrated through acquisition into a [...]

When the media announced back in 2008 that the centre for nuclear research CERN was conducting a series of ground-breaking experiments involving particle accelerator technology, the public accordingly went into a paranoid frenzy. While all doomsday theories have since been discredited by scientists worldwide, it recently emerged that CERN has in fact employed the services [...]

Gorilla Logic, has released FoneMonkey for Android, its latest open source automated testing tool for mobile applications. The new Android testing capabilities complement the popular FoneMonkey for iOS (iPhone and iPad) automated testing tool and extends Gorilla Logic’s comprehensive open source automated testing solution set by bringing Android developers and QA testers the same recording/playback [...]

A survey commissioned by Sogeti, targeting engaged UK test and QA professionals reveals strong belief in increasing popularity of automated testing and emerging technologies, despite 69 percent claiming their management won’t fully understand or support software testing initiatives A survey asking 78 London-based influential software testers and QA professionals for their views on the key [...]

Firstly I would like to introduce you to our special new section – which we hope to repeat on an annual basis – 20 Leading Testing Providers. In this special section we have gathered together twenty of the top providers of products, tools and services to the testing industry in a handy alphabetical reference section. [...]