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In Michael Bolton’s post on Testing vs Checking and the follow-up comments, he splits testing into exploratory testing and confirmatory testing (he’d rather call the latter as checking). I wasn’t convinced with this split-up and studied all his posts on this subject. I initially thought to leave a comment on his post but found it suitable
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I co-authored an article with Durvesh Raut on WinDbg (Windows Debugger) for the Q3’2010 edition of Security Acts magazine. The article is an introduction to using WinDbg for user mode and kernel mode debugging and crash dump analysis on the Windows platform. Introduction (from the published article) Security testing has become an important part of
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Design Patterns in Python is a free online book written by Rahul Verma and Chetan Giridhar on the subject of employing design patterns in the world of object-oriented programming using Python. The book is written in a way to keep the discussion and the related examples simple. This is done to provide a text so
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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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Recently I have seen a lot of advertisements for HDFC’s 40% faster ATMs on television and posters. As a performance tester, I was interested in knowing more. I am an HDFC customer, so I observed these advertisements predominantly displayed at the Bank’s ATMs. The other day while going for office, I saw a big hoarding mentioning
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My article on File Fuzzing, which deals with software testing via corruption of file contents, has been published in the Feb’10 edition of Security Acts magazine. The magazine is a free download available from the Security Acts website after a small registration process. Rahul Verma
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I am going to present a tutorial session on the subject of fuzzing at QAI’s STC2009 on Nov 23 at Bangalore. Details of the tutorial can be found at the following link: FUZZING – Ensuring Software Security through Automated Data Corruption Rahul Verma
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My article on File Fuzzing, which deals with software testing via corruption of file contents, has been chosen to be published as a series of two articles in the Indian Testing Board’s iTest newsletter. Part 1 is available in the Sep issue @ http://istqb.in/newsletter/ITB_NL0909.pdf Rahul Verma
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Since its publication in the beginning of this year, the book “Fuzzing for Software Security Testing and Quality Assurance” by Ari Takanen, Jared DeMott and Charlie Miller has been on my wishlist. Why wouldn’t it be! It’s the first fuzzing book which mentions right there in the title that fuzzing is meant for software testers,
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A Ghazal is a form of Urdu poetry, which follows certain strict rules. I used to practise this while being an engineering student and in the initial years of my career. Later I got too busy with my job and never had a look at it. I usually use a lot of shers (couplets from
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Rahul Verma: My Petty Bits 