Security Testing

  • While testing, one of the useful ways to get more ideas for testing as well as breaking free of constraints that prevent you from exercising some test ideas is the GOLD heuristic – Go One Layer Down. The concept is simple, although from one implementation to another the ground work required might vary. There are

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  • Thanks to my practice of looking into comment SPAM archived by wordpress Akismet plugin, I am able to find quite interesting SPAM comments. I found an interesting one today: The above happens to be a genuine comment on my blog by Ajay Balamurugadas, a friend from the Bangalore testing community. So, instead of generating some

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  • Testers are often caught into the trap of analyzing just the GUI interface and not looking beyond it. It is helpful many a times to go beyond the black box view and explore a little further. This is typically a grey area between black box and white box, wherein a tester tries to understand the application

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  • Getting SPAMed!

    SPAM is not a new word for any one with an email account. Over the past few days, I have been trying to dig a little deeper into the world of SPAM. I have written a small article on my findings. It can be found in the Testing Perspective Wiki on the Testing Concepts page

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