Defect Saturation Over Time
The frequency of bug reporting over the life of a project is somewhat reminiscent of the view of Pike’s Peak from Denver. Why compare it to the Rocky Mountains and a Peak that appears to pop out into the middle of the Colorado plains? Sometimes the defect saturation timeline closely resembles a series of peaks that gradually dwindle to rolling hills with a random peak somewhere near the end. Typically, the amount of defects being reported are expected to skyrocket at the start of the project then decrease as all the existing...
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Are You Mobile Enough? Businesses are probably aware of the need to build a professional website that is both easy to use and aesthetically pleasing, but did you know that your business also needs a mobile website? Traditional websites are often completely inaccessible from mobile devices including smartphones and tablets. The Importance of Mobile Websites Nearly half of all adults living in the U.S. own a smartphone. Many of these smartphone users spend time surfing the Internet from their phones, and some people have even greatly...
read moreBest Practices for QA On-Demand
For years iBeta has been successfully accommodating all aspects of Quality Assurance for a variety of demands including functionality testing, compatibility testing, mobile testing, performance testing, and more. Some may wonder how it is possible for iBeta’s Quality Assurance resources to adapt so quickly for iBeta’s On-Demand QA model. It’s quite simple: iBeta has a diversity of testers with various skill sets and experience levels available to support a variety of Quality Assurance needs. For initial training, all testers...
read moreBrute-force password-guessing attacks
iBeta does automated testing of the security of websites, especially for things like cross-site scripting (CSS), and cross-site request forgery (XSRF). However, our automated tool occasionally finds other problems not strictly related to those and not strictly in the OWASP Top Ten. Caveats: The following analysis is based entirely on a brute-force attack and the results cannot be extrapolated to hackers that are using dictionary attacks or have other knowledge that would help them figure out your user’s passwords. One of these has to do with...
read moreWhy Don’t Your Prospects Buy?
Why don’t your prospects buy? They have the problem and you have the solution, so why don’t they buy? There are many reasons why, but generally it boils down to a few simple dynamics. First and foremost, when a prospect has a significant problem and we have the solution but they don’t buy, the first thing we should do is look in the mirror. If we don’t make the sale and we should, it’s our fault. It’s not the prospect. For starters, too many sales people are focused on their presentation. Their presentation is the...
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