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September 2004 Entries


Quality magazine's Top 100 Quality Plant list

Quality magazine's Top 100 Quality Plant list are impressive companies that lead their respective industries. They strive to balance quality issues with customer demands for today's and tomorrow's business environments. The article can be accessed at: http://www.qualitymag.com/C... Following are the top 5 companies that improve processes, empower workers and satisfy customers: 1. General Electric2. General Motors3. Honeywell 4....
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Tutorials on the Net

One of my friends forwarded this link to me which have a compilation of tutorial links on the web and it looks really a very good compilation,check it out: http://stommel.tamu.edu/~ba
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Inside AL-QAEDA'S Hard Drive

Alan Cullison, a journalist, covered the events in Afghanistan for Wall Street Journal in late 2001. Cullison was offered to buy a bunch of computers from a local Al-Qaeda office on the day Kabul fell. Cullison bought an IBM desktop and a Compaq laptop for $1100 and copied the contents before submitting the same to CIA agents in Afghanistan. Cullison shares some of the electronic messages in Atlantic Monthly. It has interesting trivia about Al-Qaeda's financial operations and their involvement in...
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Free Function Point Training Manual

This free Function Point Training Manual provides a step by step instruction on how to count function points, can be downloaded from: http://www.ifpug.com/Functi... For any difficulty downloading the manual, send a mail to: david@softwaremetrics.com
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Function Point Calculator

"Harvey Roy Divinagracia" has designed a Function Point Calculator, this can be accessed at:http://www.engin.umd.umi
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"Seven Pillars of .NET Testing Wisdom" by Jeff Gainer

“Jeff Gainer” is a software quality consultant and the following write-up of his explains seven major myths about testing. The article can be accessed at http://www.ftponline.com/ws... Pillar One: Testing should begin before coding. Don't relegate testing .NET applications to the last 10–20 percent of the development cycle, only to trim it back when the schedule begins to slip. Testing should take roughly the same amount of time as application...
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Growth of S/W testing:India

Interesting write-up: http://www.businessworldind
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Usability Testing: Readings

The concept of usubility has really assumed great importance across all the modern day computing systems/applications. Here are a few links on different writeups/articles on this subject: The hub: Jakob Nielsen's Website: http://www.useit.com/ Usability Testing Basics: http://www.cu.edu/irm/stds/... Usability Testing Basics BY Jeffrey Graham http://www.clickz.com/exper... General Concepts of Usability Testing http://jthom.best.vwh.net/u...
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Cyber Laws in India

Indian Parliament passed the Information Technology Bill in May 2000 which is known as the Information Technology Act, 2000. This IT Act, 2000 contains the Cyber laws. This act has founded the legal framework for electronic records and other activities done by electronic means/ways. The IT Act provides for the following amongst many other things: Legal recognition of electronic records E-commerce Digital signatures E-governance Cyber crimes, etc. The IT Act 2000 can be downloaded from the following...
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Material for PMP certification

Check out this learning material for PMP certification compiled by "Abrachan Pudussery": http://www.youpm.com
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Cheap and Free Test Tools

Information on Cheap and Free Test Tools compiled by Randall W. Rice: http://www.riceconsulting.c... Really a good compilation and start-point for anyone looking for a cheap yet effective test tool. Take a look. -Devankur ...
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“Internationalization and localization testing” Articles

Few days back I was looking for some information on Software “Internationalization and localization testing”and ended up spending quite a bit of time finding some good articles/write-ups on these topics in Google and Mooter. I did bump on to some very good and interesting articles though, I have posted all the relevant links on these topic under the Category "Localization" in Articles section here. -Devankur...
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