Are You an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) User? Gain Even More Benefit with Lab Management

For users of ALM or ALM Performance Center Edition, Lab Management allows testers to perform server-side testing in ALM. It also helps them to better manage the lab resources and systems they use for functional and performance testing in ALM. In a new video available on Orasi’s YouTube site and its website support page, Orasi… Continue reading Are You an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) User? Gain Even More Benefit with Lab Management

SAP S/4 HANA FIORI: A Transformative User Experience Whose Time Has Come

When SAP unveiled SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA (S/4HANA) in 2015, the release marked a major leap forward for enterprise resource planning (ERP) tools. With this innovative computing platform, SAP made sweeping enhancements—including the incorporation of big data analytics paired with streamlined, user-friendly workflows—that dramatically accelerate the availability of business information for enterprise innovation… Continue reading SAP S/4 HANA FIORI: A Transformative User Experience Whose Time Has Come

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Application Security: Designing the Process

By Dennis Hurst As a specialist in application security (AppSec), one of the concerns I frequently hear from organizational stakeholders seeking to better secure their applications is, “How do we go about it?” Increasingly, corporate decision makers recognize that they should apply AppSec best practices to their development and testing processes or face the odds… Continue reading Application Security: Designing the Process

Lessons from the Equifax Hack: Be Careful; You May Be Living in a Glass House.

By Dennis Hurst In mid-September 2017, when Equifax announced a massive data breach had compromised nearly 150 million consumer records, criticism for the debacle was rapid and substantial. The news media and security experts immediately condemned Equifax for the breach, stating that an organization trusted by consumers to maintain confidential, personal information should have had… Continue reading Lessons from the Equifax Hack: Be Careful; You May Be Living in a Glass House.

Free up Disk space on Load Generators

LoadRunner and Performance Center environments include machines known as Load Generators, “LG” for short. Frequently we are contacted by users with issues that turn out to be related to disk space. Here are a few best practices to avoid running out of disk space on an LG. I will also include details about how to… Continue reading Free up Disk space on Load Generators

The Salesforce User Experience: Performance Considerations for Lightning

The most recent release of CRM platform Salesforce included two different user interfaces—Salesforce Classic (essentially an update of the existing interface) and Lightning, which Salesforce.com bills as a completely new “user experience.” More than a GUI, Lightning represents a sweeping reinvention of the prior interface. Its functionality and the code that underlies it are substantially… Continue reading The Salesforce User Experience: Performance Considerations for Lightning

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Security: The New Imperative in Software Development

Discussions regarding the importance of software security are nothing new. However, given the escalation in both the number and intensity of cyberattacks, and the fact that even decade-old vulnerabilities are still being exploited, the importance of security has never been greater. For application developers, the stakes are especially high. According to research firm Gartner, nearly… Continue reading Security: The New Imperative in Software Development

Performance Testing Custom Salesforce Deployments

For organizations using and customizing Salesforce, performance testing can be very difficult—and frustrating. In addition to not having any control over third-party app servers and their loads, organizations must meet restrictions imposed by Salesforce to reduce the impact on other customers. Performance test plans also require advance evaluation and approval. Yet, companies that curtail performance… Continue reading Performance Testing Custom Salesforce Deployments

Integrating Application Scanning into your Agile SDLC

In his blog post, Application Security:  Can we Achieve it?, Dennis Hurst outlines why application security is so important.  Many of the problem drivers and the impacts to the organization are laid plain. Hurst also lays out a few “broad strokes” to begin approaching a resolution. In this post, I want to discuss some of… Continue reading Integrating Application Scanning into your Agile SDLC