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iFlexweb have announed release of Flex developer.

Proficient in design and development of customized RIAs, Flex developer uses Flex 4 to create robust and cost-efficient rich internet applications.Flex 4 is the latest offering from Adobe and has a Spark architecture that gives Flex developer the flexibility to work with designers on common platform. This great feature allows the developers to deliver richer web applications in lesser time. The Flex 4 version supports the latest HTML5 and CSS3 technology, which increases the aesthetic look of the website.

Flex developer benefits from Flex 4’s ability to support 3D animation. This allows users to provide elegant multimedia effects so that the end users have a delightful experience.  Visitors can easily browse through interactive web pages and click on to host features to quickly grasp finer points of the product/services.

The other great benefit of Flex 4 is automated bug testing, which ensure complete removal of  bugs in minimal time. This reduces the testing time and enables the Flex developer at iFlexweb to speed up the rich internet applications development process.

The time saved, reduces the overall cost of the project development. The Flex developer finds the Flex 4 highly indispensable for creating robust, lively and cost-effective rich internet applications for the customers so that they can enhance their online business revenues and thus push up their ROI graph.

For more information visit iFlexweb

According to a recent report on eSecurity planet, Microsoft has begun beta testing updates to two of its leading security products.

In the article, titled  Microsoft Beta Tests Two Updated Security Tools, the company have begun tests on Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP) 2010 for enterprise security and the free Security Essentials for consumers and small businesses.

Announced on two separate Microsoft blogs, Microsoft has not yet announced pricing or licensing terms. However, the blog post did say that FEP 2010 is due out in the fourth quarter. Interested parties can download the beta here.

Among the new features of FEP 2010 are a new antivirus engine, new behavioral threat detection to protect against zero-day attacks, and Windows Firewall management, which checks that the firewall is working properly and provides improved management capabilities.

The new edition of Microsoft Security Essentials adds a new anti-malware engine, as well as tighter integration with the Windows Firewall and with Internet Explorer in order to block Web-based attacks.

To read the full article click here

As part of their Web Design Series, Technology Magazine Mashable have published a list of 10 Tools for Getting Web Design Feedback

For designers, one of the most critical parts of a project is getting critiques and advice on how to improve designs. Getting an outside perspective helps spot issues and validate design choices.

The list is designed to “enable you to share your work and receive reviews of it. You’ll find websites dedicated to offering free design critiques as well as tools you can use to conduct usability testings with real people in order to benchmark your design’s efficacy in the wild”.

The top 3 sites featured in the article are:

1. Critique The Site
2. Please Critique Me
3. Reviews and Critiques – SitePoint

To read this interesting article and view the full Top 10 please visit 10 Tools for Getting Web Design Feedback.

SugarCRM the provider of open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, today announced it will release several functional and performance testing tools under open source licenses for use with web-enabled applications, including all versions of SugarCRM’s award winning applications.

The announcement was made at the O’Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON), and is said to ‘better enables SugarCRM developers, partners and customers to create custom enhancements and build solutions on SugarCRM’s products’.

The new testing tools build upon SugarCRM’s announcement earlier this year that it has created a public source code tree for Sugar developers. Now, partners and developers have access not just to a public source code tree, but also powerful testing tools to develop and insure top performance of their custom code.

The new open source projects include:

SODA – an XML-based testing framework leveraging Watir. Watir is an open source Ruby library for automating web browser interactions. SODA simplifies the process of creating browser test automation, allowing non-programmers to successfully develop and execute in-depth test suites against web based applications.

SodaMachine – a graphical user interface (GUI) tool for creating, editing and debugging SODA tests. SodaMachine will be available initially for Windows and Linux.

MeterMaid – a lightweight XML language that simplifies the process of writing Apache JMeter tests for the HTTP protocol.

SugarMMM (MeterMaid Maker) – a utility for automatically generating MeterMaid XML for load testing against a given SugarCRM instance.

TidBit – a data generator for SugarCRM that is capable of generating massive amounts of data in a SugarCRM instance for use in scalability and performance testing.

These tools will be made available within 30 days at SugarCRM’s SugarForge developer site. Learn more at http://developers.sugarcrm.com/opensource.

For more information about SugarCRM’s open source projects and community, visit http://sugarforge.org.

JDS Uniphase, a provider of broadband and optical services, has announced three new 10GbE testing tools that will accelerate the development, verification, benchmarking, and interoperability testing of next-generation converged ethernet networks with emerging Data Center Bridging and Fiber Channel over Ethernet technology.

With the Xgig High Density 10GbE Load Tester Solution, JDS Uniphase ( JDSU | PowerRating)builds on the storage area network test portfolio with a new tool for the local area network and converged 10GbE ethernet network environment.

Its benefits include: port density with 32 ports in a single 3U chassis; generations of load testers; support for layer 2-3 testing of 10GbE converged ethernet networks; and automated testing and benchmarking.

The Xgig 10GbE Delay Emulator and the Medusa Labs Test Tools (MLTT) Suite version 4.0 further extend JDSU’s 10GbE portfolio. The Delay Emulator measures the impact of long fiber runs on network latency and performance with advanced delay capabilities and configuration.

MLTT 4.0 now offers support for Transmission Control Protocol applications, making MLTT a software-based commercial analysis and benchmarking tool to provide accurate visibility into storage area network, local area network, and converged ethernet network performance while operating at line rate, the company added.

Dave Buse, general manager of storage network test business unit at JDSU, said: “JDSU continues to lead the 10GbE market by providing the most comprehensive suite of test and analysis tools available for ethernet.

By offering advanced products with innovations such as the industry’s highest port density, JDSU simplifies design and test of network equipment and helps manufacturers claim critical early market share of emerging converged ethernet network applications.”

CSO Online, www.csoonline.com today published an article on key do’s and don’ts that anyone performing Network stress testing and using testing tools should considered.

Titled ‘Network stress test tools: Dos and don’ts’ by Neil Roiter, the article is a follow on article from the previously published ‘Stress-testing your network’.  In that article software from BreakingPoint, Mu Dynamix, Spirent and Ixia were featured in an analysis of the methods for performing stress testing of networks.

In ‘Network stress test tools: Dos and don’ts’, Neil covers a combination of 10 points to consider:

3 of these include:

• Do consider how often the tools will be used and in what ways. They are expensive to buy and support. Make sure the use justifies the expense.
• Do get full and accurate information on the application and protocol mix to be sure you create a representative test environment.
• Don’t assume you know what your performance requirements are for the new application, security device or network.

For the full article and full  list of Do’s and Don’ts please refer to the full article on CSO Online.

Automation Anywhere (www.AutomationAnywhere.com), a global leader in automation software,  announced the newest version of Testing Anywhere. Testing Anywhere first launched in December, 2009 and is being adopted by large system integrators and other software development teams looking for significantly better efficiencies and quality around automated software testing.

“We’ve been using Testing Anywhere’s new Object Avatar and believe there is nothing else like it in the market today. It is changing the way we do our application testing,” Stephen Clancy, QATools Development of Healthways. “We found that using Object Avatar for test automation significantly reduces the amount of time we spend in updating and creating scripts. This is a great time saver. The global repository should help keep us all on the same page.”

“One of the testing challenges our customers have repeatedly talked about is the time and energy it takes to test and re-test objects with live applications — a process that can take days and weeks with larger, complicated live applications,” said Mihir Shukla, co-founder and CEO of Automation Anywhere. “We took a step back and came up with an innovative approach that we think will change the way people conduct their application testing. Instead of testing the live application, we create a repository of application Object Avatars that allow for faster, more efficient automated testing.”

Key features

Testing Anywhere key features.

1.     Test anything with 5 innovative ways to create tests
2.     Reduce total cost of ownership by 45% to 60%. The only automated testing software you need. No programming required – allows you to test any Windows applications, Web based applications, websites or legacy applications. It also allows you to perform any type of testing from regression based testing to compatibility testing, etc.

3.     Reduce total time to automate tests by 50% to 70%. Quick and easy setup of tests as well as end-to-end workflows. Eliminate the need to write multiple scripts to run a test on multiple machines. Create a single test script and use Testing Anywhere’s Exe capability to run the test on multiple machines without installing the testing software on each.
4.     Increased ROI & no hidden costs
5.     Scalable
Creates tests without any scripting or programming required, using a powerful front-end, GUI based automation.
Advanced testing allows the use of over 300 various editable commands that allow users to create and manage complex scripts easily.
6.     Reliable
Object based recording allows for unsurpassed reliablility
SMART Automation Technology® intelligently adjusts scripts and recorded tests eliminating the need to write a new script for each environment.
Support for custom objects or any object with revolutionary technology. Test any process in any application.

TestLink have announced the release of version 1.9 BETA 5 of its latest software.

TestLink is a web based Test Management and execution system.  There are three cornerstones that are represented with this software: Test Projects, Test Plans and Users. All other data are relations or attributes of this base.

The tool includes test specification, planning, reporting, requirements tracking and collaborate with well-known bug trackers.

Released by www.teamst.org, The tool contains provision for Test Specification, Requirements Based Testing, Test Plans and Test Execution.  There are also a number of report and metric functionalities.

To access the latest version of this tool visit testertools.com.

Telerik, a vendor of development tools and user interface components for .NET, today unveiled details of its Q2 2010 milestone release. Fresh from its recent “Best of TechEd Award” win, the company launched its latest developer productivity product, and new tools and controls. The company also announced the immediate availability of an array of upgrades and enhancements for the full Telerik product line.

Among the new offerings and updates being announced are JustMock, a new Visual Studio productivity tool allowing quick and easy mocking of objects during testing and new Silverlight test automation enhancements to the company’s WebUI Test Studio.

Telerik’s host of new upgrades for its robust WebUI Test Studio, are designed to allow professional development and QA teams to adopt Silverlight without sacrifices to application quality. Having previously introduced Silverlight UI record and playback support, Telerik’s WebUI Test Studio now delivers full out-of-browser support for Silverlight application testing. The enhanced Silverlight test recording enables customers to run the same test in-browser and as a desktop one. Also new is ChildWindow and Pop-up support for Silverlight applications, as well as robust image verification functionality permitting verification via visual rendering rather than element properties and attributes.

Q2 2010 marks the commercial release of Telerik’s JustMock developer productivity tool. JustMock allows Visual Studio developers to swiftly and effortlessly create object mockings during unit testing, saving time and resources.

Other upgrades and enhancements announced include:

To watch a video introducing JustMock click here

For questions or additional pricing information, please visit the Telerik website at www.telerik.com or email sales@telerik.com.