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How To Recruit, Motivate, and Energize Superior Test Engineers

From -  Google Tech Talks November 9, 2005

By  Jeff Feldstein

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 The expectations today are for increasingly high-quality software, requiring more sophisticated automation in testing. Test and QA teams must work more closely with development to ensure that this sophisticated automation is possible. This has lead to software engineers applying creativity, talent and expertise to not just application development, but testing as well. This transition from manual to scripting to highly engineered test automation changes the way we recruit, hire, motivate and retain great test engineering talent.

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Free Security Training by Microsoft

Microsoft Security Training

Microsoft is conducting free security training from 07 Mar 09 to 11 Apr 09. The event details are as follows:

07 Mar 09 - Mumbai
14 Mar 09 - Bangalore
21 Mar 09 - Pune
28 Mar 09 - Hyderabad
11 Apr 09 - Chennai

For more details, click Here .

 

Free Training on writing Secure Code by Microsoft

Secure Code

Microsoft is conducting Free Training on writing Secure Code‏.  The details are as follows:

Training Contents

Fundamentals of Security: 40 Minutes
Common attack patterns, data classification, and security data in storage/in transit

Authentication: 40 Minutes
HTTP Basic/Digest/Kerberos, forms authentication, and .NET framework identities and principles

Authorization: 40 minutes
Common authorization techniques, principles of least privilege net role based security, and code access security

Input Handling: 120 Minutes
Cross-site scripting (XSS), persistent XSS, non-persistent XSS, SQL injection, one-click attacks, XML and XPATH injection, canonicalization issues, file upload/creation, and exception management

Logging & Auditing: 20 minutes

Q&A: 30 Minutes

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 For more info on the event, please visit the event home page .

 
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