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<description><![CDATA[Software Testing is the process used to help identify the correctness, completeness, security, and quality of developed computer software. This includes, but is not limited to, the process of executing a program or application with the intent of finding errors. Quality can be objectively quantified and scored via an editorial measurement framework characterizing software viability attributes.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Application Software Testing: A Practical Guide to Improving Software Quality]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper762/</link>
<pubDate>2007-12-10 16:42:11</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This no-nonsense primer covers the benefits and basic principles of good testing, offers practical advice for getting the most out of your testing efforts, and pinpoints several areas where automation will help you achieve the most cost-effective results.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Software Development Survival Guide: 5 Steps from Chaos to Control]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper770/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-30 09:21:15</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This white paper describes five practical steps that you can take to make your development process more predictable and reliable. By following his five steps, Paul maintains that you can build better software more quickly with less cost and less risk.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Making the Case for Software Management]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper771/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-30 09:19:45</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This white paper is packed full of practical advice on how to win management&#39;s support for improving your software management infrastructure.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Leveraging Lifecycle Management for Software and Business Adapt Ability]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper845/</link>
<pubDate>2007-06-27 13:33:20</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In this white paper, you&#39;ll learn how to clearly define business requirements, align them with testing, and evolve development processes to prevent defects. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Business Rules Extracting (BRE) and Legacy to SOA  Auto Re-architecting (L2S) Webcast]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper847/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-16 08:41:52</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Learn the &#39;bottom-up&#39; approach to start Business Rules Extracting, Migrating and Auto Re-architecting your current mission-critical legacy system and their data, into an SOA.&nbsp; This is a &quot;how-to&quot; presentation addressing how to get started and eventually establish an internal L2S Center of Excellence.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Legacy to SOA: What You Need To Know]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper852/</link>
<pubDate>2007-07-19 09:53:30</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Learn the &lsquo;bottom-up&rsquo; approach to start Business Rules Extracting, Migrating and Auto Re-architecting your current mission-critical legacy system and their data, into an SOA. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Streamline the Development and Test Cycle]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper940/</link>
<pubDate>2007-08-23 16:04:56</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This brief examines how application virtualization can compress the development and test cycle, accelerating time-to-market, while reducing risk and complexity.&nbsp; This brief highlights the impact of centralized command and control of application deployment and execution.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Optimizing Manual Testing with HP Business Process Testing Software]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1121/</link>
<pubDate>2007-10-03 11:42:35</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Find out how QA specialist with Raymond James Financial, Michael Warner, has used HP Business Process Testing software to help his team optimize their testing and provided them with the flexibility to do manual or automated testing as needed.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Load Testing 2.0 for Web 2.0: Simplifying Performance Validation for Rich Internet Applications]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1140/</link>
<pubDate>2008-07-21 12:10:01</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Before Ajax or other RIA technologies can be ready for prime time in your business, you need to verify that they can deliver enterprise-scale performance. This white paper helps uncover the many unknowns around stress testing Web 2.0 applications.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Reducing Risk Through Requirements-Driven Quality Management: An End-to-End Approach]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1141/</link>
<pubDate>2008-08-12 14:40:02</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Learn how to trace requirements from definition to release give IT and business managers real data to support decisions.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SOA Test Methodology]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1216/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) promises significant benefits to today&#39;s organizations. Successfully delivering SOA benefits, especially Business Agility and Component Reuse, will be dependant on the Test Approach that your organization adopts to implement your SOA.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[HP LoadRunner Software — Tips and Tricks For Configuration, Scripting and Execution]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1322/</link>
<pubDate>2008-01-14 09:23:56</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This guide provides tips and tricks for HP LoadRunner software configuration, scripting, and execution. It is a conglomerate of lessons learned by HP LoadRunner power user Opral Wisham, including unique code as well as code collected from other testers. This guide is intended to help testers just learning to use HP LoadRunner, as well as to provide new best practices for those who have used HP LoadRunner for many years.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[HP Quality Center Demo]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1331/</link>
<pubDate>2007-10-03 11:37:25</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[HP Quality Center is designed to address the wide-ranging challenges that today&rsquo;s quality assurance (QA) professionals face. By leveraging consistent, repeatable and standardized processes, it helps your QA teams turn quality into a competitive advantage.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The 5 Essentials of Effective Software Development Metrics]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1398/</link>
<pubDate>2008-06-20 14:40:34</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Software development projects have a long and storied history of failure. In fact, 82% of projects today run late, while errors cost 80% of the average project budget to fix (The Standish Group). Certainly no other business process today is allowed to endure this sort of failure. But software development is often left to chance, despite the significant cost and importance of the process.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Making Software Development Metrics Work]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1400/</link>
<pubDate>2008-06-20 14:40:09</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you have a software development metrics program? Does it work? SD Times, 6th Sense Analytics and Rally Software Development Corp. participate in this recorded Roundtable Discussion focused on developing a metrics program that gives you the information you need to make informed decisions regarding your software development efforts.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How To Make Your .NET Application Perform]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1503/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This short white paper discusses the common pitfalls and performance problems .NET developers come across when creating applications. The paper also presents several ways of getting around these issues, so that developers can make their .NET applications perform the way they should.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Primer on Outsourced Software Testing]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1573/</link>
<pubDate>2007-11-13 11:30:03</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This guide/primer serve as an introductory how-to guide on outsourced software testing for business heads as well as software project managers. It first places testing within the content of total product life cycle and then describes the sequential stages within testing program, and how these stages can run parallel with the other development stages. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Software Testing Basics: 10 Steps to Building Software Test Automation That Works]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1583/</link>
<pubDate>2008-04-16 11:45:31</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Take a journey into the exciting world of Quality Assurance Software Test Automation. This paper will allow you to define where you are today, focus on where you would like to take your organization, and build a plan to get there. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Test Your Enterprise SOA Apps Before Rollout]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1602/</link>
<pubDate>2008-01-24 14:19:23</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[How SAP uses Shunra VE to keep production problems at bay with pre-production testing on the virtual WAN.&nbsp; These testing approaches and methodologies&nbsp; reached far beyond conventional application testing and have become the preferred approach to ensure success. SAP does it, so should you!]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Domain Focused Independent Testing]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1629/</link>
<pubDate>2007-12-04 09:10:13</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This white paper acts as a tool, for CEO&#39;s and Business and IT heads, helps reduce application deployment risks and costs. This paper attempts to establish how outsourcing test services to an independent domain-focused specialist company can substantially mitigate deployment risks. Business users are assured of receiving reliably better quality application well within cost and time budgets.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[HP Customer Perspective: Best Practices for Implementing HP Quality Center Software]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1696/</link>
<pubDate>2008-07-21 12:08:57</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This white paper offers a structured approach to planning and implementing HP Quality Center software, an integrated,web-based suite of tools and best practices for automated software quality testing. It also offers practical advice, based on my own experiences as a QA architect for a Fortune 500 company, for each phase of implementation.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Security at the Next Level: Are Your Web Applications Vulnerable?]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1697/</link>
<pubDate>2008-01-14 09:24:55</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Are your Web applications vulnerable? What techniques are hackers using to exploit Web-based applications and how can you protect your site? Unfortunately, most security products available today cannot adequately examine the applications that reside on your Web server! Yet these applications often provide backend access to confidential data!]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Save Hundreds of Hours a Month in Software Development Time]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1827/</link>
<pubDate>2008-02-19 15:22:01</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Accurate communication is the key to the success of the bug tracking process. This communication takes the form of timely information flow between customers, QA and Development. Reducing the time spent on tasks that communicate bug information saves money.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Keep Software Fixes On Course with Elementool Bug Tracking]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1828/</link>
<pubDate>2008-02-19 15:21:53</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Here&rsquo;s a test: Can you list all the issues your software team is working on now? Can you sort them by severity, priority, features affected, and other criteria such as whether the issue is a bug, customer request, or product enhancement? Can you show the histories of all related comments and actions? Can you distribute this information easily to concerned individuals &mdash; showing only the information relevant to them?]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Streamlining Your Software Development Processes within VS.NET 2005]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1829/</link>
<pubDate>2008-02-19 15:22:10</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Elementool, a leading provider of web-based project management tools for developers, including bug, defect, time-tracking and help desk tools, has announced the release of a bug tracking add-in tool for developers using the Visual Studio.NET 2005 platform. It is available free to Elementool&rsquo;s community of project management solution subscribers.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Beginner Tips for Using Bug Tracking Software]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1830/</link>
<pubDate>2008-02-19 15:21:44</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Being the new person on a bug tracking team can be very intimidating. The other team members are likely very set in the process and know exactly what they are doing. They are used to working as a team and they understand what is expected of them. Being new, though, does not mean that a person can not fit in on the bug tracking team. All a person needs to do is learn a few beginner tips to using bug tracking software.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Aternity Streamlines Software Testing and Deployment with VMware]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1872/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Aternity, Inc. is the leader in Frontline Performance Intelligence for Global 1000 enterprises. Two of the biggest challenges Aternity faces as a software developer are: 1) testing its software in different IT environments; and 2) deploying its software at customer sites.&nbsp; Fortunately, VMware software was able to address both these challenges.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Testing Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Applications and Services]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper2036/</link>
<pubDate>2008-07-21 12:10:25</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[HP offers the only comprehensive solution available for testing SOA services and interfaces, managing quality and enabling performance throughout the lifecycle of services and composite applications.&nbsp; With HP Quality Center and HP Performance Center, IT can integrate testing with the SOA ecosystem to test services throughout their lifecycles and enable shared services to be continuously used by composite applications. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[HP Customer Perspective: How IT Quality Managers Respond to SOA Change]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper3195/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Find out how one customer, Dr. Ferhan Kilical, test manager at Northrop Grumman Mission Systems, addressed the challenges she faced when applying traditional test tools and processes to SOA. ]]></description>
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