Web Testing

Web Application Security: Testing for Vulnerabilities

The increasing reliance on data-driven Web sites has caused an incline in the number of attacks launched against them. As a developer, understanding how a site can be attacked is paramount to making it secure. Discover some of the more common attacks, and learn about the tools you can use to spot them. To write [...]

How to Start Selenium Server with Java Code

When test automating a web application using Selenium, we have to start the Selenium server first, so that a new Selenium session is created to talk to the web browser. This can be either done manually, i.e user running a command line to start the Selenium server, or to get the pure automation effect of [...]

Web Software Testing: Guarantee that the Web Software is purposeful and safe

The software development life cycle (SDLC) is composed of various stages. Software testing is an important stage within the software development cycle (SDCL). A variety of testing methods are used beginning with the application’s development until it gets the marketing stage. These methods are employed during various stages of the SDLC. Moreover there are different [...]

Web Software Testing: Ensuring Web Software Security and Functionality

The software development life cycle (SDLC) is composed of various stages.Software testing is one of the most essential stages. Different types of testing are employed in each phase beginning with development till it reaches the market. The testing spans over all the stages in the SDLC. Moreover there are different varieties of the software that [...]

Web Application Testing Techniques

In today’s ever-changing and competitive web-based business scenario, organizations always need to test their web based applications before the launch of their website. By testing, any organization can be sure that the web application will work perfectly and will be easily accepted by the end-users. The testing techniques also check the web application’s browser compatibility; [...]

Software Testing – VBScript & HTA for Interactive Test Automation

Step 1 – Validate HTML and CSS This step may come as a surprise to many. After all, wouldn’t invalid code either not work or leave a visible bug? Actually, the answer is not necessarily. The reason can be that some WISIWIG editors generate invalid code and hard-core programmers who write their code by hand [...]

A Primer On Website Testing

Search marketers can learn a lot from scientists. Scientists spend their life testing things, one after the other, incessantly trying to discover new interactions between atoms, molecules, viruses, bacteria, etc. One of the greatest scientists of all time, Albert Einstein, said, “A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment [...]

First Step to a Highly Secure Web Site

Article by: Caleb Sima

If an organization isn’t taking a systematic and proactive approach to web security, and to running a web application vulnerability assessment in particular, then that organization isn’t defended against the most rapidly increasing class of attacks. Web-based attacks can lead to lost revenue, the theft of customers’ personally identifiable financial information, and falling out of regulatory compliance with a multitude of government and industry mandates: the Payment

Penetration Testing vs. Vulnerability Analysis Tools

Article by: Dennis Hurst

Over the past several years I have heard people asking the question “should I use vulnerability analysis tools to assess my web based applications or should I look to penetration testing?” I think we, as an industry, may be asking the wrong question. First, let’s look at how the web application industry has grown over the years and how penetration testing has scaled to meet that challenge.

Pre-2000
Before

Application Security Testing

Article by: Anamika Chowdhury

Application security issues are increasing threat now days. This is caused primarily by security bugs in an application’s code. Application security vulnerabilities can allow a client to see another client’s data. They can let hackers run queries on an application’s back-end database, and possibly even take over the Web server itself.

Most organizations leave the discovery of Web application security issues to a dedicated security team, which

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →