Happy Holidays!

We'd like to take a moment to thank all of our readers for your support in 2009. We'll be back with new posts on the world of testing beginning January 4th, 2010.

Wishing you all a safe holiday and happy New Year from everyone here at Testlabs.com.

Testing on Agile Projects

Do agile projects become the brunt of cubicle Dilbert jokes? Scott Ambler confronts Scott Adams.

University Of Utah Mac Managers Share Their DeployStudio Experience

DeployStudio University! Mac Managers from the University of Utah share their DeployStudio secrets on iTunes

Technology Advisory: FireFox 3.5.6 Released

Mozilla has released Firefox 3.5.6, which fixes the following issues:

• Several security issues.
• Fixed several stability issues.

The update can be downloaded at Mozilla’s site.

You may also be interested in the Firefox 3.5.5 release notes for a list of changes in the previous version.

Using Sauce OnDemand To Run Automated Cross-Browser Tests In The Cloud

Update:  What has the original creator of Selenium (Jason Huggins) been cooking up lately? Hint: it has to do with Sauce.

Automated Testing Institute

While doing some article research this week I came across a website on automated testing called the Automated Testing Institute. Here's a synopsis of the content:

Selenium 2.0 and Beyond!

For those of you that are fans of Selenium, you'll probably want to hear what Simon Stewart (Google) and Jason Huggins (Sauce Labs) have to say about Selenium 2.0 and beyond.

Using The National Vulnerability Database During Security Testing

The National Vulnerability Database (NVD) is a comprehensive cyber security vulnerability database

Add These Website Performance Test Tools To Your Toolkit

I've listed some performance testing resource links that are worth looking at if you do any sort of website performance testing.

Tips and Techniques for Using Apache JMeter for Load Testing

Apache JMeter is a great tool for load testing and we use it for LAN-based products as well as web sites and hosted services. And lately we've used it in conjunction with Amazon's Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) service. Along the way, we've collected a number of tips and techniques that are sometime difficult to find in the documentation.

Vint Cerf - The Internet Today

In today's video, Vint Cerf, often referred to as "the Father of the Internet", gives a lecture at Singularity University (www.singularityu.org) that first provides a history of the internet,

Open Web Application Security Project Top 10 Risks For 2010 Is Available

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Top Ten has been a great source of information for security testing over the years that we've used it at Recommended Test Labs. They last published their list in 2007 (and 2004 before that).  As stated at their web site:

Browser War Links - We May Not Know Where We're Headed, But We're Making Good Time

Update: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes's article "XP's usage share down, Win 7, Firefox & IE8 up" describes a change afoot for OS and browser market share that's worth considering for compatibility test planning.

Using DeployStudio For Imaging and Restoring OS X Setups for Testing

Update: DeployStudio is very popular in schools. I found some very detailed documents on how one administrator setup DeployStudio in a K-12 school environment.