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Automated Software Testing

The book "Automated Software Testing" published by Addison Wesley addresses the challenge for today's software professionals, who are faced with real schedule deadlines, and need to introduce, manage and perform automated testing on a project. The book, authored by local area residents Elfriede Dustin and Jeff Rashka, addresses the introduction, management and performance of automated testing. ISBN 0-201-43287-0  

 
The Art of Software Security Testing

The book "The Art of Software Security Testing" published by Symantec Press, Fall 2006 can now be preordered here on amazon.com. The book's authors are Chris Wysopal, Lucas Nelson, Elfriede Dustin and Dino Dai Zovi. Symantec has reported that attackers are moving away from large, multiple purpose attacks against traditional security devices such as firewalls and routers.  At Symantec 69% of the vulnerabilities reported in the last half of 2005 were in web applications.  This book addresses the Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDL). This book’s objective is to teach the engineers who build and test software that in order to protect their customers they must perform security testing throughout the development process.  Unless security is addressed throughout the development lifecycle, software will inevitably have security issues that can lead to the theft of financial information, the loss of data and performance, and the compromise of personal data.  ISBN: 0-321-30486-1

 

Also coming soon, downloadable security testing code snippets and other material. Watch here at amazon.com for more security discussions, soon.


Quality Web Systems

The book “Quality Web Systems” addresses the key success factors of quality web systems to include: functionality, ease of use, compatibility with a variety of browsers, security, and system performance and scalability. The book is published by Addison Wesley and authored by local area residents Elfriede Dustin and Jeff Rashka. The book offers a guide to performing test execution using several leading automated test tools. Also provided is a detailed comparison of tools offered by vendors such as Mercury, Rational, Segue, Compuware and Empirix. ISBN 0-201-71936-3

Effective Software Testing

The book "Effective Software Testing: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your Testing" (Addison Wesley) provides experienced-based practices and key concepts that can be used by an organization to implement a successful and efficient testing program. The book, authored by local area residents Elfriede Dustin and Jeff Rashka, provides a distilled collection of techniques and discussions that can be directly applied by software personnel to improve their products, and to avoid making costly mistakes and oversights. ISBN 0-201-79429-2

Testing SAP R/3

Jose Fajardo, Elfriede Dustin

 
Testing SAP R/3

The book "Testing SAP R/3: A Manager's Step-by-Step Guide" (Wiley, April, 2007) shows how to implement a disciplined, efficient, and proven approach for testing SAP R/3 correctly from the beginning of the SAP implementation through post-production support. The book also shows SAP professionals how to efficiently provide testing coverage for all SAP objects before they are moved into a production environment. ISBN 0470055731

The book can be pre-ordered here
Best Laid Plans: The People Problem

Worst Practices that can make a project go awry. While best practices have to be adopted to each project and may be the key to project success, sometimes the worst practices are implemented instead. This first article of a three part series takes a look at how people can doom a project: When the Best Laid Plans Go Awry: The People Problem (Part I)
Contact: Elfriede_Dustin[at]verizon.net

Best Laid Plans: The Schedule Problem

Part II of the series on worst practices explores scheduling issues and how they can be managed so that a realistic deadline can be met. Best Laid Plans: The Schedule Problem (Part II)
Contact: Elfriede_Dustin[at]verizon.net

Best Laid Plans: Undo Process and Budget Mistakes

Ineffective processes can undermine any project. In the final part of this series I will discuss how you can help eliminate process and budget mistakes Best Laid Plans: Process and Budget (Part III) - Final part of series
Contact: Elfriede_Dustin[at]verizon.net

Blend Functions for a smoother Process

In todays responsive, short-staffed, and quick turn-around environments, QA teams have to combine the expertise of developers, testers and users. Here is a look at how to blend those functions successfully: Blend Functions for a Smoother Process
Contact: Elfriede_Dustin[at]verizon.net

Choosing and Managing the Ideal Test Team by Lloyd Roden

People are the most important asset of any company: Do we agree with this statement? The majority of us would answer yes, the main exception would be if we owned a fully automated robotics company! It is the people that make the company what it is. People are important - we therefore need to invest time in people as well as tasks related issues. See this article on Choosing and Managing the Ideal Test Team for more detail
Contact: contact@methodsandtools

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Evaluating a Testers Effectiveness

Test managers are responsible for monitoring the testing program and the people who carry it out. But with all that testing entails, evaluating a tester’s performance is often a complicated task. This article provides some specifics you can use to assess the effectiveness of a tester.. Evaluating a Testers Effectiveness
Contact: Elfriede_Dustin[at]verizon.net

Groovy in Action

Groovy in Action Groovy in Action - EARLY ACCESS EDITION
Contact: http://www.manning.com/koenig/

Introduction of Automated Test to a Project

Automated Software Testing is not a silver bullet, but only an additional tool to add to our testers tool box. - See Introduction Automated Test to a Project for more detail
Contact: Elfriede_Dustin[at]verizon.net

Lessons in Test Automation

I have worked on many projects at various companies where automated testing tools were introduced to a test program lifecycle for the first time. In reviewing these projects, I accumulated a list of Automated Testing Lessons Learned, taken from actual experiences and test engineer feedback. Lessons in Test Automation
Contact: Elfriede_Dustin[at]verizon.net

No Fluff Just Stuff 2006 Anthology

Take 13 of the worlds best trainers and speakers and ask them to write a chapter on something they care passionately about. The result? A book on software development unlike any other. No Fluff Just Stuff
Contact: http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/nfjs06/index.html

Orthogonally Speaking

Is your testing effort facing an impossibly wide choice of test parameters? Shooting in the dark can yield hit-and-miss results -- and that is just not very effective. When your testing effort faces an impossibly wide choice of test parameters, the Orthogonal Array Testing System technique can be a very useful method for deriving a suitable set of test cases. See Orthogonally Speaking for more detail
Contact: Elfriede_Dustin[at]verizon.net

Risk Based Testing, Strategies for Prioritizing Tests

Often all other activities before test execution are delayed. This means testing has to be done under severe pressure. It is out of question to quit the job, nor to delay delivery or to test badly. The real answer is a prioritization strategy in order to do the best possible job with limited resources. See Risk Based Testing, Strategies for Prioritizing Tests for a solution to this dilemma
Contact: contact@methodsandtools

Teamwork Tackles the Quality Goal

Can Testers and Developers play nicely together? The Case for the Integrated Testing Team. Teamwork tackles the quality goal
Contact: Elfriede_Dustin[at]verizon.net

The Automated Testing Life-Cycle Methodology (ATLM)

The Automated Testing Life-cycle Methodology (ATLM) summarized in this article The Automated Testing Life-cycle Methodology is described in detail in our book Automated Software Testing and has been adopted by various companies throughout the world.
Contact: Elfriede_Dustin[at]verizon.net

The Secure Software Development Lifecycle - SSDL

The Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDL): In traditional software development, security testing is often an afterthought. Yet, is not possible to test security into software. The earlier a defect is uncovered, the cheaper it is to fix. What can you do? Adopt the SSDL techniques enumerated here. The Secure Software Development Lifecycle
Contact: ElfDustin[at]aol.com

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