What Medieval Castles Can Teach You About Web Security
Ancient castles weren’t just guarded by stone walls; they had multiple layers of defense. Here’s how to apply castle architecture to your own software design by securing your systems on multiple...
View ArticleTrends in Software Testing: A Report from the CAST 2012 Conference
Professional software testing is evolving, just as are other software development endeavors. Matt Heusser learned about the coming trends that will affect your career, from philosophical approaches to...
View ArticleSoftware Quality Lessons from STPCon 2013
Over the next few years, software testing techniques will need to rapidly to evolve as testers try to keep up with the ever-changing demands coming from throughout the software industry. Matt Heusser...
View ArticleUnderstanding Why Peer Review Isn’t Just About The Code
You’ve likely heard about the mess at healthcare.gov, and probably know that the website had both functional bugs (mostly from systems that couldn’t integrate) as well as performance bugs at go-live....
View ArticleSecure Your API…Like A Castle
Share It’s been three years since I compared medieval security to web security, and a few things have happened. Mobile and wireless have evolved as the dominant platforms, while the life between...
View ArticleMy Love/Hate Relationship With APIs
ShareTen years ago I was a programmer working at an insurance company. The hard IT work of an insurance company is claims processing – taking in new members, getting claims, figuring out how they...
View ArticleDon’t Fool Yourself: Load Testing APIs and Scale
A typical web application uses a combination of local code and external services. Not only is adding a Twitter feed to your application’s interface cheap and easy, but using Facebook or Google for...
View ArticleThe Role of Testing in API Performance
Let’s consider a list of testing services: Functional Testing Automated Testing Security Testing Web Performance Testing API Performance Testing API Functional Testing Mobile Testing These sorts of...
View ArticleHow to Identify Performance Bottlenecks in Your Source Code
In software we like to talk about new and shiny — the latest JavaScript library, the newest browser extension. These things take increasing amounts of memory, of disk space, and bandwidth, but that...
View ArticleGetting Real About Memory Leaks
Modern programming languages tend to separate the programmer from memory management; Java programmers don’t have to deal with pointers; they just declare variables and let the built-in garbage...
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