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The Seven Habits of Highly Insecure Software

Severe functional bugs usually have pretty overt symptoms: an application crash, corrupt data, and screen corruption. Security bugs, though, usually have more subtle symptoms and habits. This article discusses the most common and difficult-to-notice symptoms of insecure software to help you track down these bugs during testing.

Herbert H. Thompson
Testware for Free

Want the 4-1-1 on freeware but don't know where to start? A virtual cornucopia of programs awaits your discovery. In this week's column, Danny Faught details some of the testware he has researched, and explains why it's important to have freeware in your testing tool bag of tricks.

Danny R. Faught's picture Danny R. Faught
How to Jump-Start Inspection by Outsourcing

Even though the benefits of inspection have been extensively documented, you may find it hard to introduce this practice into your development process. A novel approach to finding defects, an outsourced software inspection service is easier to introduce and has successfully jump-started inspection in the software development organizations of major telecommunications and industrial process companies.

Jasper Kamperman

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