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Kill more bugs! Add randomization to your web testing

TechBeacon Testing

In his book Software Testing Techniques , Boris Beizer describes the Pesticide Paradox. In the context of software testing, it says that no matter what testing method you choose, you will still miss subtler "pests," or software bugs.

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Desktop Application Monitoring – Are you Doing it Right?

Apica

Legacy applications tend to be the driver for businesses to achieve revenue goals. Despite having the standard legacy challenges like Read More. The post Desktop Application Monitoring – Are you Doing it Right? appeared first on Apica.

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Musings on Crafting a CFP

J. Paul Reed

This post is part of a larger retrospective on REdeploy 2018; the discussion about our CFP process, specifically, was split out into its own post; read the full retrospective here. Mary talked a little bit about our CFP, but I think it’s worth talking a bit more about because it’s one of the aspects of REdeploy I’m most proud of. One of the lesser known REdeploy facts is that Mary and I originally didn’t plan to have a CFP: we were going to invite speakers.

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Master of web puppets: abusing web browsers for persistent and stealthy computation

The Morning Paper

Master of web puppets: abusing web browsers for persistent and stealthy computation Papadopoulus et al., NDSS’19. UPDATE 2019-04-14: An author update has been published for this paper which details that with current browser versions, ServiceWorkers can only stay alive for about a minute after the user navigates away from the site. This mitigates the main risk detailed in the paper of long running botnet membership.

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Desktop Application Monitoring – Are you Doing it Right?

Apica

Legacy applications tend to be the driver for businesses to achieve revenue goals. Despite having the standard legacy challenges like Read More. The post Desktop Application Monitoring – Are you Doing it Right? appeared first on Apica.

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I Ran This Whole Conference and I Didn’t Even Get a T-shirt

J. Paul Reed

As many of you know, Mary Thengvall and I produced and co-chaired REdeploy last year, a conference on the intersection of resilient technology, organizations, and people. Mary recently posted a three-part retrospective series on the conference. Despite ignoring my own advice about running retrospectives within 72 hours after incidents, here are some of my musings about the 2018 event (based largely on notes I, at least, did take in the days after): On “Making the Sausage” ?