You don’t just have to test the app, says Professor Mike Holcombe of the University of Sheffield, you have to test how it fits into the whole system and how users will interact with it… The hand-over went well with the client very much liking the app, especially the interface. The app went live a few [...]

Lattice Semiconductor has announced release 6.1 of its PAC-Designer(R) mixed signal design software, with updated support for Lattice’s Platform Manager(TM), Power Manager II and ispClock(TM) devices. Users designing with Platform Manager devices will now have access to the Lattice Diamond(R) 1.3 software design environment, which has also been announced. This integration of the PAC-Designer 6.1 [...]

Zoltes, a provider in software only testing solutions for Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Voice and Video Technologies, has released a new version of Zoltes Test Fabric (ZTF) with IO benchmarking capabilities for VMware virtualization environments. ZTF is a cost effective, software only solution that provides an IO benchmarking framework for VMware virtualization environments leveraging its flexibility, [...]

Embedded and mobile software supplier Wind River, has announced that Renesas Electronics Corporation, a supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, has selected Wind River Framework for Automated Software Testing (FAST) to test Renesas Electronics’ Cortex-A9-based system-on-chip (SoC) platform for Android-based smartphones and consumer products. Wind River FAST for Android is a fully automated software testing solution [...]

Well, you are an interesting lot. When I took on the TEST editor’s chair, I carried no preconceptions except an awareness of the high editorial standards to which Matt Bailey had led you to become accustomed. Further than that, in editing this issue, I find not only are you an interesting lot but also your [...]

What responsibilities, asks Angelina Samaroo, do testers have for ethics in the systems they test?

Santosh Kumar, JasleenKaur Bhatia, Arupratan Santra, Venkata Durgempudi of Infosys explain how network performance testing aids WAN acceleration 

He’s not being nosey but Dave Whalen has a few suggestions  

Reality in software testing and project management, says Milan Sengupta, Senior Software QA/Testing consultant, is important if results are to match expectations.

Focusing on certification, in the view of Rob Lambert, Creative Director at The Software Testing Club, may be blinding testers to real learning opportunities