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Just a quick note to share a useful resource with you. Just came across a good article “25 common programming errors” for software programmers and software testers. Basically this is more useful for programmers but I think software testers can get insight on how developers can unknowingly leave bugs in software programs.

Each bug listed in this resource can lead to serious software vulnerabilities if not fixed. The top 25 security bugs list will help programmers to avoid some common but serious coding mistakes. For software testers list will be useful as a security testing checklist for Internet as well as for testing desktop application.

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The year 2008 was very productive for software testing help in terms of new subscribers and site traffic. We covered many interesting and (I hope) helpful articles in this year.

Here is the recap of some popular posts from year 2008. I know it’s very difficult to select few posts to show here. Still these are some most popular posts, in random order, you can enjoy. Don’t forget to bookmark this page

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Novice testers have many questions about software testing and the actual work that they are going to perform.  As novice testers, you should be aware of certain facts in the software testing profession.  The tips below will certainly help to advance you in your software-testing career.  These ‘testing truths’ are applicable to and helpful for experienced testing professionals as well.  Apply each and every testing truth mentioned below in your career and you will never regret what you do.

Know Your Application
Don’t start testing without understanding the requirements.  If you test without knowledge of the requirements, you will not be able to determine if a program is functioning as designed and you will not be able to tell if required functionality is missing.  Clear knowledge of requirements, before starting testing, is a must for any tester.

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This is a white paper written by ‘Huw Price‘. With over 20 years experience, Huw Price has been the lead technical architect for several US and European software companies. His new venture Grid-tools is specialized in test data management techniques. Thank you Jessica for providing this white paper for our readers.

How to improve testing by maximizing code coverage - A practical approach.

Article Summary:

As a white box tester your first goal should be maximizing code coverage!

Increasing code coverage is the route to improved testing. Code coverage is always a critical testing path and creating good test data for maximum code coverage is another difficult task.

Testers need to balance the need for complete coverage with only limited time to test. The key challenge here is to be more efficient and more effective.

Should 100% code coverage be the testing goal?

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I wish all testers read these software testing good practices. Read all points carefully and try to implement them in your day-to-day testing activities. This is what I expect from this article. If you don’t understand any testing practice, ask for more clarification in comments below. After all you will learn all these testing practices by experience. But then why not to learn all these things before making any mistake?

Here are some of the best testing practices I learned by experience:

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This is a guest article by: Inder P Singh

These days a number of web sites are deployed in multiple languages. As companies perform more and more business in other countries, the number of such global multi-lingual web applications will continue to increase.

Testing web sites supporting multiple languages has its own fair share of challenges. In this article, I will share seven tips with you that will enable you to test the multi-lingual browser-based applications in a complete way:

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