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I disagree with Jakob Nielsen’s STOP password masking article

Thursday, February 2, 2012

While I refer to http://useit.com/ for usability related articles and I do recommend to many testers as well. However, I filter out which doesn’t make sense to me rather than following something blindly. Darren McMillan, a tester and my friend posted a tweet with the following URL http://www.useit.com/alertbox/passwords.html and after reading it, I felt most [...]

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Guest Blog Post: Web Services Attacks

Monday, January 2, 2012

What is a Web Service? A web service is any software that is used for communication over a network. One could imagine a web service as any function that performs a specific operation.Web service may or may not include input parameters and may or may not return output parameters. Input / Output parameters can be [...]

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Do you really understand Usability?

Monday, December 5, 2011

Usability is not a quick meal that could be prepared. Whenever someone talks about some thing in Usability, I usually do not give my opinion because the topic requires a lot of thought process to go behind before providing the conclusion and remember that conclusions might change tomorrow because it is always better factor that [...]

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How to test better with add-on(s)?

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

You must have known the add-on(s) mindmap which we (Moolyavans) created (URL: http://moolya.com/blog/2011/03/04/addon-mindmap-for-testers-from-moolya/). Now, here I am going to put some light on how we can use them. I have chosen some add-on(s) where I have mentioned about how we can utilize them in our testing activity. Here I go,   Web Developer Add-on There are [...]

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Auto-complete can put your customers under threat

Monday, September 26, 2011

You must know the auto-complete feature in your web browser and also web applications like Google search engine. I am going to speak where to use them and where not to use them. You might like below 2 points;   Auto-complete will help in improved UX Auto-complete can put your customers under threat if no [...]

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