Agile Testing

I have been hearing a new word( only new for me...not for many of you though) in my profession as software test engineer.....AGILE TETING.
I really didn't give a try to know what this is all about until today....
Now as i started to explore this concept...i am drowned with the amount of information about this word......a simple search in goolgle with just these two words AGILE TESTING gave me almost 22 lakh reference links.... this PDF doc gave me the useful insight I wanted.....
http://www.mcbreen.ab.ca/talks/CAMUG.pdf

Just knowing more...and i'll be back with some useful information from my learning curve about Agile Testing in my next post.....

With YouTube, Student Hits Jackpot Again

Here is another post on yout tube !!!

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/12/technology/12tube.html?th&emc=th

A Message From Chad and Steve ( cofounders YouTube )

upload file to https server using perl

... had some trouble initially to post / upload a file to https server
but using lwp::useragent it was easy ..

here is my code

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Data::Dumper;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Cookies;


my $https_login = 'https://192.168.1.3';
my $https_post = 'https://192.168.1.3/upload';


my $https_user = 'xxxxx';
my $https_pass = 'yyyyy';


&postHTTPS();


sub postHTTPS
{
#secure login


my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();


$ua->protocols_allowed( [ 'https'] );


$ua->cookie_jar(HTTP::Cookies->new(file =>
".cookies.txt",autosave => 1));


my $response = $ua->post($https_login, [ 'user' =>
"$https_user",'password' => "$https_pass" ] );


#print Dumper($response);


if ($response->is_error())
{
printf " %s\n", $response->status_line;
print "https request error!\n";
} else {
my $content = $response->content();
print "$content\n";
}


$response = $ua->post($https_post, [
filename =>['/tmp/abc.txt'],
], );


if ($response->is_error())
{
printf " %s\n", $response->status_line;
print "https request error!\n";
} else {
my $content = $response->content();
print "$content\n";
}

Samsung Demonstrates 4G Wireless Technology

100mbps speeds at 70 miles an hour, and even 1gbps speeds

Today in South Korea, Samsung Electronics demonstrated new 4G mobile phone technology to the press. What's most impressive is that Samsung claims 4G can deliver speeds of up to100Mbps, which is already faster than most consumer high-speed Internet access connections.

The demonstration took place on a bus that was traveling roughly 37 miles per hour and streamed media such as high-definition TV and data network access. Samsung claims that this is even possible traveling at speeds of 70 miles per hour. President of Samsung's telecommunications network business division Lee Ki-Tai told reporters that "we hope to drive development and standardization of 4G mobile technology. Successful commercial launch of mobile WiMAX will lead to another success story of 4G communications."

Samsung said that it had invested more than $100 million to develop and push out 4G mobile technology. The company also claimed that 4G will replace the WiMAX standard being supported by Intel. In actuality, Samsung is also a supporter of the WiMAX standard but believes that 4G will succeed WiMAX in global support and longevity.

During the two day demonstration, Samsung also showed off a 1Gbps wireless technology that it is currently researching. The company claimed that the technology in development could be 50 times faster than WiMAX. Samsung noted that while 4G technology was extremely promising, it would not be in wide use until roughly 2010.

Potential Threat

RSS.... how many of us use it !!

Most of the security analyst claim that worms will begin to utilize RSS to update themselves and spread new malware . Now a days most of our feeds are from sites where some one post a link to another sites . there is a high chance that one can embed malicious code in the feed that can download a worm and start spreading from your machine . This applicable to Desktop agent as well as web based RSS readers.

--CS

Google set to connect its entire home town to Internet for free

Google on Wednesday plans to offer free, high-speed Internet access to everyone in its Silicon Valley home town (San Francisco)— a hospitable gesture that the online search leader hopes to see spread to other parts of the country.

The new wireless, or "Wi-Fi," network, is believed to establish Mountain View, Calif., as the largest U.S. city with totally free Internet access available throughout the entire community, according to both Google and city officials.

St. Cloud, Fla., a suburb of Orlando with a population of about 28,000, had claimed that mantle earlier this year after it launched a free Wi-Fi network.

About 72,000 people reside in Mountain View, an 11.5-square-mile city located about 35 miles south of San Francisco. As the home to major companies like Google and VeriSign, Mountain View's daytime population can swell above 100,000.

"We aren't concerned about being able to handle the load," said Chris Sacca, a Google executive who oversaw the Mountain View project. "We think we have built a pretty cool, robust network."

Similar Wi-Fi networks are under development in many other cities, including Philadelphia and Chicago, but most of those envision charging for Internet access.

Small pockets of free Wi-Fi access — often called "hot spots" — have become increasingly common throughout the United States, often cropping up in downtown districts or by coffee shops and fast-foot restaurants hoping to lure in customers.

Google's community-wide network has had Mountain View buzzing in anticipation, said City Manager Kevin Duggan.

"There's a lot of excitement," he said. "It's something we could have never anticipated a few years ago when we were just excited to be able to pay for dial-up access to the Internet. Now our entire town is a hot spot."

Google invested about $1 million to build the Mountain View Network and expects to have to spend far less than that each year to keep it running. The financial commitment represents a pittance for Google, which has nearly $10 billion in cash.

Powered by 380 radio antennae, the Mountain View Network is supposed to surf the Web at speeds comparable to the Internet connections delivered by digital subscriber, or DSL lines. It will be slightly slower than a high-speed cable connection.

Still, Google believes the free service will be fast enough to prompt some Mountain View residents to stop paying DSL and cable providers for Internet access. People who take that step will probably want to spend $30 to $170 for a Wi-Fi modem to improve the connection to Google's free service, Sacca said.

Web surfers using the Google service will have to log on, but once they're connected they will be able to sign off without losing access, Sacca said. The network is "very naive," so it won't track people's online activities when they aren't on a Google site, Sacca said.

Like many Internet companies, Google has an incentive to ensure people have easy and cheap access to the Internet because its profits depend on Web surfers navigating through waves of online ads.

Toward that end, Google last year decided to help develop free Wi-Fi networks in Mountain View, the company's home since 1999, and San Francisco, where many of its employees live. Google doesn't expect to undertake similar projects elsewhere, partly because so many other companies are angling to build Wi-Fi networks in hundreds of other cities, Sacca said.

In contrast to the Mountain View network, Google decided to team up with another company, EarthLink Inc., to build San Francisco's Wi-Fi network. The San Francisco plan envisions EarthLink charging roughly $20 per month to surf at the top available speed while Google will offer a free service that transmits data at a much slower rate.

Negotiations on the San Francisco network still haven't been completed, making it unlikely it will be switched on until next year.

The US Gets RFID e-Passports

According to reports, the US Department of State has started issuing electronic passports (e-passports) that are equipped with radio frequency identification (RFID) chips.

The RFID chips in the new passports store all the information typically contained in conventional passports, besides they can be scanned by chip readers at airports and other locales. The information held by the chips is the same as that on the first page of a traditional passport, viz name, date-of-birth, gender, place-of-birth, date-of-issue and expiry, passport number, plus digital image of owner.

The State Department says that "metallic anti-skimming material" in the front cover and spine of the book prevent information from being read from a distance, provided the book is fully closed. The new passport also deploys a cryptographic technique called "Basic Access Control," whereby the RFID chip reveals its contents only after a reader has authenticated itself as being authorized to receive information.

Although RFID-enabled e-passports are around 14 percent pricier than their predecessors, the State Department claims they carry added security benefits, as also offer advantages such as speedier processing.

The State Department is confident that despite certain problems associated with RFID chips - including the possibility of them being copied, the new e-passports will take security and travel facilitation to an altogether new level.

Besides, to prevent alteration/modification of data on RFID chips, the information on these chips will also include an electronic signature.
Meanwhile, the new e-passports are available for around $85 plus a security fee of $12. However, not all new passports issued will contain RFID chips, until the project is fully completed, which is expected to happen within a year's time.

Reportedly, the State Department's Colorado Passport Agency has started producing these passports, with the production facilities slated to be expanded in the coming few months.

Voip is going higher !!

First skype .. and now its gizmo
PC-to-PC calls have always been free, but now we can make calls to 60 countries using gizmo . India is not in the list though ;(

Today gizmo has announced No cost Landline/Mobile calls to 60 countries

--CS

BulletProof Startup

Hi geeks

Giri had already sent a link which refers to the basic steps in eastablishing a bullet proof startup

This is a link for a PDF format of this.....nice colors... and interesting too...

http://i.cnn.net/money/magazines/business2/startups/bulletproof.pdf

Kalyan:)

Another moral in the line

There was a little boy named Johnny who used to hang out at the local corner market. The owner didn't know what Johnny's problem was, but the boys would constantly tease him. They would always comment that he was two bricks shy of a load, or two pickles short of a barrel. To prove it, sometimes they would offer Johnny his choice between a nickel (5 cents) and a dime (10 cents) and John would always take the nickel ... they said, because it was bigger.

One day after Little Johnny grabbed the nickel, the store owner took him aside and said "Johnny, those boys are making fun of you. They think you don't know the dime is worth more than the nickel. Are you grabbing the nickel because it's bigger, or what?"

Slowly, Little Johnny turned toward the store owner and a big grin appeared on his face and he said, "Well, if I took the dime, they'd stop doing it, and so far I have saved $20!"

Moral: Behave ignorant sometimes where the ultimate result is indeed a profit to you.......
Hope u all got the point geeks........

Lets all start with funny post

When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion to develop a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to 300 C.

The Russians used a pencil.

Moral: Think Smartly.........

Welcome to the party

Hi Geeks,

This should be a platform for all of us to discuss and share our thoughts. Not project related though..!!ok? Any kinda articles and info may be shared in this way. Make it a regular kinda excercise to visit this blog ok..

bye for now,
Kalyan