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After the confusion around not publishing Michael Bolton’s comment in response to my earlier post was sorted out, Michael has replied (thanks Michael!) with an elaborate post: All Testing is (not) Confirmatory, providing reasoning in favor of his concept of “Testing versus Checking”. Meanwhile, I had a discussion with Pradeep Soundararajan on the comment episode
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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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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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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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