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		<title>Software testing spends to hit Euro 100bn by 2014</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Software testing has become one of the fastest-growing areas of corporate IT expenditure, and major changes are taking place in the commercial and delivery models, tool sets and skills requirements as the sector reaches a new level of maturity. Software testing has emerged as one of the fastest-growing areas of the IT market, according to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sales increases across Western Europe show PCs are a necessity not a luxury</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PC shipments in Western Europe totalled 15.6 million units in the second quarter of 2010, a 19.6 percent increase on the same period in 2009, according to a new report from Gartner. According to Gartner research director Ranjit Atwal, “Western Europe showed continued growth in the second quarter, recovering from the slowdown seen in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.testmagazine.co.uk/2010/08/sales-increases-across-western-europe-show-pcs-are-a-necessity-not-a-luxury/</link>
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		<title>iPad will remain dominant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apple will stake out a dominant position in the tablet market in the coming years, according to a report from research firm iSuppli. The report states that the Apple tablet could claim as much as three quarters of all tablet sales this year and continue to carry the top spot in the market into 2012. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t miss out on ISEB certification deadline!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SQS is advising testing professionals, currently working through ISEB’s Software Testing Practitioner accreditation, to sign up to final courses before the scheme ends in early 2011. The recommendation follows the announcement that the BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, has signed an agreement with the UK Testing Board (UKTB), resulting in ISTQB Advanced becoming their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.testmagazine.co.uk/2010/08/don%e2%80%99t-miss-out-on-iseb-certification-deadline/</link>
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		<title>AppLabs acquires testing tools developer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[AppLabs has announced that it has acquired the award-winning web-based test design tools developer ValueMinds. Commenting on the acquisition, Sashi Reddi, founder and chairman of AppLabs said, “We are delighted to make this significant acquisition at a time when our customers are looking to us to provide thought leadership in the testing space. This is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.testmagazine.co.uk/2010/08/applabs-acquires-testing-tools-developer/</link>
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		<title>Usability testing that overcomes time and resource challenges</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Userlytics Corporation has unveiled its remote usability testing service which it says is the first online usability testing service that provides the rapid results, and comprehensive reporting that is required to make important development decisions in fast-paced development teams. “Userlytics combines the power of online testing with the convenience of an immediately available panel of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.testmagazine.co.uk/2010/08/usability-testing-that-overcomes-time-and-resource-challenges/</link>
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		<title>Automated testing and test management solutions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Micro Focus has launched SilkTest 2010 and SilkCentral Test Manager 2010, its latest software quality products that it says are designed to proactively drive quality improvements across the entire software development life cycle. Organisations using Continuous Quality Assurance can improve software delivery time to market and eliminate defects at every stage of development, maximising the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.testmagazine.co.uk/2010/08/automated-testing-and-test-management-solutions/</link>
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		<title>World Cup exit spurs IT job searches</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since England’s exit from the World Cup, there has been a 23 percent increase in employment searches online, according to Experian Hitwise, a leading global online competitive intelligence service. And, it seems the IT community has played its part in this trend. Reinforcing the Hitwise statistic, the UK’s largest IT jobs site, The IT Job [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.testmagazine.co.uk/2010/08/world-cup-exit-spurs-it-job-searches/</link>
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		<title>Key testing trends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A survey from Sogeti and Capgemini of 30,000 IT professionals has identified cloud-based and agile testing as the key trends in enterprise application quality assurance. ‘The World quality Report 2010-2011’ which surveyed more than 30,000 CxOs, IT directors and QA managers from across the globe highlights that the current focus in testing initiatives is that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.testmagazine.co.uk/2010/08/key-testing-trends/</link>
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		<title>Peak demand load testing from the cloud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Micro Focus has announced the availability of SilkPerformer CloudBurst, a peak demand load testing capability based on its Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS) technology. According to MicroFocus, CloudBurst extends its load and performance testing solution SilkPerformer out to the cloud. With CloudBurst, SilkPerformer enables testing organisations to manage large load tests that emulate hundreds of thousands [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.testmagazine.co.uk/2010/08/peak-demand-load-testing-from-the-cloud/</link>
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