TestPlant has announced an offer to any UK public sector organisations or businesses with government contracts. The first licence of its eggPlant robotic software testing tool can be acquired at no cost in its first year of use by any new customer whose funding comes from central or local government. According to the company, the [...]

Roke Manor Research has been appointed by CESG, the Information Assurance arm of GCHQ, as the UK’s only High Assurance Internet Protocol Encryptor (HAIPE) Conformance Test Facility. All UK developed encryption devices utilising the HAIPE protocols must now be Conformance Tested by Roke before they can be approved as being “HAIPE compliant” by CESG. To [...]

Quality reports are crucial if you want to know how you are doing. Inés Smith, QA director at a major bank assesses the benefits of some reporting tools and what they can deliver in the software arena. Reporting has always been a standard and perhaps the most salient requirement for any business. In recent years [...]

Yogesh Singh and Ruchika Malhotra of the University School of Information Technology in Delhi give us a snapshot of the rapidly emerging Indian testing industry. The presence of Indian software industry is very significant and important in the world. Its professionals have shown their effectiveness and leadership in software development with a special focus on [...]

A survey of IT security professionals has discovered that 83 percent consider commercial applications, the ones you buy off the shelf, to be riddled with code flaws and vulnerabilities. 56 percent believe these flaws could allow hackers to exploit these software vulnerabilities; as a result, security professionals are making heavy investments in penetration and code [...]

The findings of the 2010-11 World Quality Report, an in-depth study of enterprise application quality assurance and emerging trends in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), reveals that the majority of companies (60 percent) around the world are hosting up to 50 percent of their applications in a cloud environment. Along with an increase in applications deployed [...]

iTrinegy has launched an enhanced HTTP media monitoring module for its AppQoS networked application monitoring technology, enabling organisations to identify which users are watching streaming media over their network – an activity that could be illegal if no TV licence is obtained for viewing at the premises! The AppQoS product range now offers deep packet [...]

Original Software has announced the launch of Qualify which it says was designed from the ground up to answer the growing need for QA to be less siloed. The company says Qualify has brought effective Quality Management right into the heart of the software delivery process and comes off the back of a survey which [...]

Stephen Bashada, vice-president of Teamcenter Applications at Siemens PLM Software has opened SQS’s new test automation factory at SQS India’s company headquarters in Pune in May. Siemens PLM Software is the new test automation factory’s first client. “As the market leader for independent software testing, SQS has offered its customers test automation services for business [...]

People in the UK owe £55bn in hidden debts, according to a survey. Nearly a third of people (31 percent) hide the true extent of debt from family members, according to the research by OnePoll for the Post Office. The problems of financial debt are only too well known – but what about the technical [...]