With vital data being transmitted and stored in web applications, there is a dire need for explicit security testing. Apart from maintaining the privacy of important data, security testing also involves tackling authorization and authentication issues.



As a tester, it is the most exciting form of testing. There are many interesting tools and techniques to reveal the vulnerabilities of a web application. But as fun as it may sound, it has a very serious side to it. With the use of the… Continue

New Open Source Testing Tools are emerging that will deploy, manage and test the latest Cloud Computing Software applications.



With its dynamic scalablity, flexibility and virtualized resources are provided as a service, Cloud Computing is seen as the dawn of a new era for application services and has received its fair share of plaudits. With Google Documents, Flickr, Buzzword and Zoho as… Continue

The launch party held at 336 H Chitepo was a great success

With the announcing of the launch of its web browser, called Chrome, Google has effectively started a whole new browser war.



Chrome is an open source application.



I was slightly disappointed by this news because I was really excited by Google's collaboration with Firefox. Now they are competing- although I understand they will still be collaborating in some other areas.



The trouble, I think, with Google owning a browser is that it effectively makes them "own" a… Continue

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