Posts Tagged: testing

Want to do usability testing on your federal website but don’t have funds or staff?

You could win a free usability test through GSA’s First Fridays Product Testing Program.“Win a Free Website Usability Test” Video Contest Details at go.usa.gov/n3e – Enter now till February 29Submit a video (two minutes or less) addressing why your governmentwebsite or web application is a good candidate for a free usability test. We want toRead… Read more »

Volunteers needed to test gov website May 18 – no experience needed! At all!

GSA’s First Friday’s Usability Testing program is looking for 3 participants to help us test a government website on May 18 for one hour in the morning at our DC office. Help us improve user experience for the American public! Please email [email protected] for more information or to volunteer. Thanks so much 🙂 Sincerely, Jon

Tips To Choose The Web Application Security Testing Tool

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 toRead… Read more »

Social Media Simulation and Training Environments – Internet Media Testing

All well-known systems engineering methodologies and enterprise system development programs leverage testing environments. Testing environments can be built and operated for very different purposes, ranging from prototyping and simulation, to pre-production load testing and usability or “Section 508 Accessibility” checks. Specialized SOA testing frameworks are sometimes required, for difficult infrastructure integration challenges. Most major systemsRead… Read more »

A Comprehensive Test Strategy for Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8

I published an article at ClearType Press – take a look and please share your thoughts in the discussion: A Comprehensive Test Strategy for Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 http://cleartypemedia.com/press/2009/10/test-strategy-for-ie6-ie7-ie8/ In this article, I’ll show you how to install multiple, legitimate versions of IE to speed up testing by taking advantage of two no-costRead… Read more »

Open Source Software Testing Tools to Test Cloud Computing Applications

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. WithRead… Read more »