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Category Archives: Books

Password – Flaws / Risks / Design suggestions and more

This blog post will try to educate you on vulnerabilities / problems / issues with respect to “Password / Forgot Password / Change Password and etc.” & give you hints on how you can start learning to help yourself in your testing activity. Here I go, When I forget my password, the first thing that, [...]

Coaching fresh graduates

Few days ago, I started getting calls from people asking to know about good testing institutes in Bangalore. My answer was – none of them. Then the next question from them was, they want to get trained and now what they should do. I thought about what can be done now, and I thought of [...]

Do you read books? Do testers know about good books?

Most of the software testers do not read books – Why? They do not have time? Or they think reading won’t help [ Yes, certification books doesn’t help ]? Or some reason that they also do not know about what it is? I always suggest testers to read books and I get different answers and [...]

Blind to non-usable error or alert messages

I was sitting with one of the tester and he was testing a product. He did some action on the functional module and there was some error / alert message thrown and he just clicked “OK” button and proceeded with correcting the error. Then I asked him what the error message was? He said this [...]

SQL Injection, Password cracking attack & more

I know many few testers who do hardcore security testing. They use cool tools which are open source for their testing activity. Today, I am going to list few things that might be of your help in your testing activity for security quality criteria. Web Application -          SQL Injection You might have heard about this. [...]