Testing White Papers

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the ways in which an educational testing and research organization uses the cloud to leverage on-demand capacity for improved workload management while supporting the price points and computing power needed to pursue global opportunities.

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 | Published: 23 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: InfoSphere Optim Test Data Management Solution for SAP Applications creates targeted, right-sized development, testing and training environments, reducing the time, expense and manual effort. This solution brief provides an overview of the product.

Posted: 29 Jun 2011 | Published: 29 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper discussed the origins of the solution and examines its key features which provide compelling benefits such as improving time-to-market by up to 30% and reducing testing costs by 40%.

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 | Published: 09 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: InfoSphere Optim Test Data Management Solution for SAP Applications creates targeted, right-sized development, testing and training environments, reducing the time, expense and manual effort. This solution brief provides an overview of the product.

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 | Published: 06 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: Basis path testing, also known as Structured Testing, is the primary code-based testing strategy recommended by McCabe Software and supported by McCabe IQ. The main idea behind this testing is that decision outcomes within a software function should be tested independently. This article provides an overview of the benefits of basis path testing.

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 | Published: 15 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Agitator helps you debug your code while you write it - a benefit that no other existing Java Testing tool can claim. Agitator can also be extremely beneficial when run on legacy code - even code that has been reviewed by other developers and deemed to be “sufficient” and “properly written.” Learn how Agitar can be your own personal code reviewer.

Posted: 10 Mar 2011 | Published: 10 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper provides guidelines to help you take advantage of the strategic opportunities IPv6 will bring, while avoiding loss of business, marketing challenges, increased SPAM activity and other potential problems.

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 | Published: 01 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: The Plantronics UC Toolkit, Deployment FAQ provides insight to typical questions IT organizations must consider regarding the physical deployment of UC audio devices. “What are key things I should consider during deployment? What and how should I communicate to users? How do I best prepare my IT organization?” are key topics covered in this FAQ.

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 | Published: 10 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the differences between JBoss Community projects and JBoss Enterprise Middleware products. It explains how JBoss Enterprise Middleware delivers the benefits of open source software, combined with the additional testing, certification, and maintenance releases necessary for reliable long-term enterprise production use.

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 | Published: 27 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: The paper discusses how path coverage is better than branch or statement coverage in testing to uncover security vulnerabilities, including showing how several CWE vulnerabilities could be undetected by branch coverage but detected by path coverage. Download this paper and find out how Cyclomatic Path Analysis can uncover these vulnerabilities.

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 | Published: 10 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Cloud computing can help you organize and streamline your test environment. The business model of cloud computing facilitates better use of existing resources, allowing you to do more with fewer resources. As a result, you can achieve a highly simplified and so much more.

Posted: 20 Oct 2010 | Published: 19 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: Automated testing will shorten your development cycles, avoid cumbersome repetitive tasks and help improve software quality but how do you get started? The best practices discussed in this white paper help ensure results and a successful foundation for improving your software quality.

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 | Published: 14 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper recommends best practices for efficient, lightweight peer code review that have been proven to be effective via scientific study and extensive field experience. Use the techniques discussed in this paper to ensure your code reviews improve your code and make the most of your developers' time.

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 | Published: 14 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: Software development teams are always looking for an edge to produce features more quickly while retaining a high level of software quality. This document describes best practices for uniting both automated and manual test efforts to improve your software releases and obtain the highest quality releases in the shortest amount of time.

Posted: 14 Sep 2010 | Published: 14 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: Apposite's Linktropy WAN emulators simulate bandwidth, latency, jitter, loss, congestion, and other important link impairments to test applications in the lab and under a spectrum of real-world conditions. Through an intuitive, browser-based graphical interface, you can still install the Linktropy WAN emulator and begin testing within minutes.

Posted: 09 Sep 2010 | Published: 09 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization is becoming a standard IT practice. It is becoming more popular among ArcGIS customers as well. ESRI uses virtualization technologies for the development, QA and certification processes of ArcGIS Server. This paper provides an overview of virtualization and addresses some common questions regarding ArcGIS Server and virtualization.

Posted: 14 Apr 2010 | Published: 01 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: In this paper, various configurations of Exchange Server 2007 are tested in physical and virtual environments to evaluate the performance scalability and to understand the sizing requirements for Exchange Server 2007 in a virtualized environment.

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the testing challenges presented by Web services, and introduces best practices to ensure SOA application quality through the use of Oracle’s award-winning Web service testing solution, Oracle Application Testing Suite.

Posted: 10 Sep 2009 | Published: 12 Jun 2008

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains why and how to apply static analysis tools in the context of a policy-based security process that not only prevents security vulnerabilities, but also focuses on SDLC productivity.

Posted: 01 Apr 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper provides answers to basic questions relating to the management of outsourced development and maintenance. What is the metrics approach to managing sub-contractors? What is the quality of the code expected to be that has been developed by the sub-contractor? Read on for the answers to these and other important considerations.

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 | Published: 13 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper introduces coverage analysis as an important direction in the management of software testing. Specifically, this paper covers test assessment and improvement using McCabe IQ coverage analysis in the areas of functional testing, incremental testing, and unit level testing.

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 | Published: 13 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: In this Tolly Group competitive performance evaluation, learn how Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0.3 consistently delivered faster response time than competing products tested.

Posted: 10 Mar 2009 | Published: 10 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: The combination of high performance and efficiency make the PowerEdge R900 an excellent Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization server.

Posted: 11 Dec 2008 | Published: 11 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: This Dell High Availability Solutions Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V introduces different options to implement HA for Hyper-V environments.

Posted: 11 Dec 2008 | Published: 11 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper will discuss the various kinds of information technology requirements, their importance, the different requirement types, the concept of requirements engineering and the process for gathering requirements.

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 10 Dec 2008