Software Quality Assurance Reports

EGUIDE: A botched content update released by CrowdStrike in July 2024 led to a massive IT outage affecting about 8.5 million Windows systems worldwide. In this e-guide, learn more about how the outage occurred, its impact on organisations around the globe, and what you can do to mitigate the risks of similar incidents in future.

Posted: 04 Aug 2024 | Published: 05 Aug 2024

EZINE: In this week's Computer Weekly, we analyse the lessons from the global IT outage caused by the blue screen bug in CrowdStrike security software. We talk to the data chief of Barilla, the €4bn pasta maker, about the benefits of asking, "So what?" And we find out how Finland is taking a lead on quantum computing. Read the issue now.

Posted: 26 Jul 2024 | Published: 30 Jul 2024

RESEARCH CONTENT: We analysed 426 log files provided by the Philippines' Commission on Elections to objectively recreate what transpired during the 2016 elections. These log files were used to gauge the integrity of the Philippine AES using an AES Trust Model developed by this research.

Posted: 13 Apr 2022 | Published: 13 Apr 2022

EZINE: In this week's Computer Weekly, we reveal our annual list of the 50 most influential people in UK IT, and talk to this year's winner, NHS Digital CEO Sarah Wilkinson, about an unprecedented year of challenges. Also, we examine the best software patching strategies and see how the pandemic has affected women in tech. Read the issue now.

Posted: 15 Mar 2021 | Published: 02 Mar 2021

EZINE: This Computer Weekly buyer's guide looks at how to take an Agile approach to mobile app development. Discover how to gain a competitive edge by accelerating mobile development, turning mobile users' expectations to your advantage, and building unique, differentiated mobile experiences.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 21 Mar 2017

ESSENTIAL GUIDE: In this guide, we look at how distributed systems have evolved to support more agile software development.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 27 Sep 2016

WEBCAST: This new webcast series for Quality Management and Testing Professionals, will explore the extensive new capabilities required to keep pace with today's dynamic applications environment.

Posted: 13 Aug 2009 | Premiered: Aug 13, 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper presents a set of agile meeting and facilitation checklists that offer an easy framework to help guide software development teams through the various agile cycles. Read on to learn about the Agile Development Rhythms and start using the checklists presented herein to help get through the various agile cycles.

Posted: 24 Jul 2009 | Published: 24 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, we'll outline the many benefits of an integrated approach to requirements and quality management, as well as offer best practices for effective requirements-driven testing.

Posted: 22 Jun 2009 | Published: 22 Jun 2009

EZINE: This first issue of SearchSoftwareQuality.com's Software Testing E-zine covers two new technology areas - virtualization and rich Internet applications (RIAs) - that are changing software testing approaches and presenting new challenges.

Posted: 16 Mar 2009 | Published: 16 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines the challenges that impede teams as they try to collect, analyze, and evaluate ideas to define the best solution requirements. The paper also provides information on the four critical areas to defining great requirements and how IBM Rational® solutions help teams address these areas.

Posted: 16 Mar 2009 | Published: 13 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: Analyst report which includes new or expanded discussion of Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration, Rational Requirements Manager, Quality Manager, Insight, and IBM Software Delivery Services for Cloud and Rational Asset Manager.

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 | Published: 13 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper talks about why it's important to take a proactive approach to improving overall code quality using static and dynamic analysis. It then shows how IBM Rational Software Analyzer and IBM Rational PurifyPlus software can be used together to reduce the number of defects in your company's code.

Posted: 13 Mar 2009 | Published: 13 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: As the application lifecycle evolves, components that drive efficiency and quality become more crucial. Organizations building centers of excellence (CoE) around performance testing find that the CoE centralizes resources and utilizes the full capabilities of today's robust automation products. Read on to learn more about the benefits of CoE.

Posted: 27 Feb 2009 | Published: 27 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains a structured way to manage requirements and how risk-based requirements and quality management are inseparable from the larger process of managing the planning, test and release of a software system.

Posted: 29 Dec 2008 | Published: 23 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, you will gain insight into five myths commonly associated with agile development. Explore what agile development is in reality, what it is not, and the true benefits of transitioning to agile methods in your organization.

Posted: 15 Oct 2008 | Published: 26 Sep 2008

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper describes how BMC Software's Infrastructure Management Group transformed their development organization using agile development practices management applications from Rally Software Development.

Posted: 14 Aug 2008 | Published: 14 Aug 2008

WHITE PAPER: This paper will review the most common pitfalls that software developers face when creating multi-threaded applications. Discover how static analysis techniques can be used to eliminate concurrency defects earlier in the lifecycle.

Posted: 05 Mar 2008 | Published: 03 Mar 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper will provide a brief overview of the history of static analysis and explain how the use of SAT in static analysis is enabling developers to improve the quality and security of their code.

Posted: 05 Mar 2008 | Published: 03 Mar 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses how static source code analysis can be used to find critical defects and security vulnerabilities in C/C++ and Java source code.

Posted: 05 Mar 2008 | Published: 03 Mar 2008

WHITE PAPER: Can you list all the issues your software team is working on? Can you sort them by severity, priority, features affected, and other criteria? Can you show the histories of all related actions? This article details how Elementool Bug Tracking can help.

Posted: 28 Jan 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper details the results of a Forrester survey which explores the inefficiencies that exist in common approaches to application problem resolution.

Posted: 06 Dec 2007 | Published: 01 Nov 2007

TRIAL SOFTWARE: This IT download provides a project management tool known as Atlassian JIRA which is designed to improve the functionality and flexibility of legacy systems.

Posted: 27 Sep 2007 | Premiered: 26 Sep 2007

TRIAL SOFTWARE: This IT download provides software known as Atlassian Bamboo which utilizes continuous integration to automate the process of building, integrating and testing software code, providing managers with greater insight into the development process.

Posted: 27 Sep 2007 | Premiered: 26 Sep 2007

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains the basic concepts behind relational modeling, how it applies to databases and how it is implemented using UML.

Posted: 20 Jun 2007 | Published: 01 Jan 2003