http://www.qahelp.com Your #1 Online Resource for Quality Assurance Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:24:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Microsoft is making significant strides into ALM with the upcoming Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) 2010 that it says will better enable developers and QA professionals to collaborate and focus on application quality. The company has not committed to a release date for VSTS 2010. Dave Mendlen, director of developer tools ... http://www.qahelp.com/2008/10/02/visual-studio-team-system-2010-focuses-on-application-quality/ By David Worthington October 1, 2008 — Microsoft has detailed some of the .NET 4.0 feature set, and how it will evolve Windows Server to host composite applications by extending the Application Server Role. Today, the company announced its road map for Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and an update to Windows ... http://www.qahelp.com/2008/10/02/microsoft-details-wcf-and-wf-in-next-gen-net/ By Edward J. Correia September 9, 2008 — There isn't much use in automating a testing process if the automation scripts can't be used again and again. The more such scripts have to be tweaked or modified to be applied to the latest revision, the more likely they are to end up in ... http://www.qahelp.com/2008/09/10/ten-concepts-for-successful-automation-scripts/ By Scott M. Fulton, III, BetaNews A pair of security holes whose proofs-of-concept were validated by BetaNews show that Google Chrome may not have been as thoroughly inspected as Google would have us believe. But isn't finding bugs and holes what beta testing is all about? A beta test ... http://www.qahelp.com/2008/09/08/how-dangerous-are-the-first-google-chrome-vulnerabilities/ By Tim Conneally, BetaNews September 5, 2008, 6:51 PM The National Football League, NBC Sports, and Adobe have announced their collaboration on Sunday Night Football Extra -- full-length live streams of NFL Sunday night football games. Delivered in Adobe Flash, the games are promised to include the ability for viewers ... http://www.qahelp.com/2008/09/08/adobe-flash-to-deliver-nfl-games-in-full/ Besides the slick and probably expensive editing designed to make Jerry Seinfeld look like the more awkward of the pair, there's not a whole lot of special effects in this clip. In fact, there's not really a whole lot of anything, including laughs, information or pimping of Vista. It's kinda ... http://www.qahelp.com/2008/09/05/the-first-bill-gates-jerry-seinfeld-microsoft-ad/ Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier. One box for everything Type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and web pages. Thumbnails of your top sites Access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any ... http://www.qahelp.com/2008/09/03/google-chrome-beta-browser-for-windows/ WinMerge is an Open Source (GPL) visual text file differencing and merging tool for Windows. It is highly useful for determing what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions. Features Visual differencing and merging of text files Flexible editor with syntax highlighting, line numbers and word-wrap Handles DOS, UNIX and ... http://www.qahelp.com/2008/09/02/winmerge-286-is-the-latest-stable-version-and-is-recommended-for-most-users/ By David Worthington August 29, 2008 — On Wednesday, a beta refresh of Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 that includes new privacy and search features became available for download.   End users are the target audience for beta 2. It introduces granular privacy settings that Microsoft has dubbed InPrivate browsing and InPrivate blocking. InPrivate helps users cover ... http://www.qahelp.com/2008/09/02/ie8-beta-lets-users-cover-their-tracks/ by Blake Elias Do you dual-boot Windows and Linux? If you do, then you’re probably familiar with the different file systems that the two operating systems use and the difficulty in transferring files between the two. While most modern Linux operating systems can read and write to Windows file systems ... http://www.qahelp.com/2008/09/01/how-to-work-with-linux-partitions-from-windows/