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HATE is a test harness, a program that is intended to take the tedium out of testing and evaluating programs.

Some effort has been taken to ensure that HATE is totally independent of both the program being tested and the series of tests to be applied to the test program.  The intention is to provide a single tool that may be used for both testing and evaluation; to encourage well-designed objective testing; and, by allowing researchers to apply the same sets of tests to their own programs, to make it easy for researchers to compare techniques on an informed basis.

The major features of HATE are:

HATE is written in a high-level scripting language and may be used unchanged on any platform that the language supports.  This includes all flavours of Unix; Linux; Windows NT, 95, 3. n ; and the Macintosh.

Test scripts may be used unchanged on all platforms.

Test scripts are independent of the software being tested or evaluated.

Programs are interfaced to HATE by means of a short interface procedure ; thereafter, all relevant existing test scripts may be used with them.

The decomposition into test script and interface procedure, and the portablity of HATE, encourage the sharing of scripts between developers or researchers.

HATE is able to generate its output in a range of forms, including HTML and LaTeX tables.

HATE was developed principally to aid the evaluation of computer vision algorithms . There is increasing realization within the vision research community that this type of work is essential in converting computer vision from a “black art“, with algorithms being tested on only a few images, to sound engineering practice. It is hoped that the vision community will develop test scripts that allow comprehensive comparisons of existing algorithms to be performed, and that new algorithms are subsequently compared with the existing body of results.

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SQL Injection vulnerabilities can cause a lot of damage to a web application.  A malicious user can possibly view records, delete records, drop tables or gain access to your server.

SQL Inject-Me is the Exploit-Me tool that allows the user to test their web applications against common SQL Injection vulnerabilities.  SQL Inject Me is a Mozilla Fire fox add-on.

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PrimeCode is a Software Configuration Management tool designed to manage software changes throughout the entire software life cycle on the proprietary HP NonStop™ Guardian and OSS operating systems. Go beyond source code version management to manage the relationship between all software application components, from acquisition through development, testing and production.

Develop, Package and Deploy within the same tool in compliance with your organizations SCM policies and procedures.

PrimeCode Provides:

* automated source version management

*automated executable object version management

* integrated MAKE facility

* integral release packaging, management and distribution

* protection against deletion active software components

* automated release management and distribution

* automated protection against deletion of active software components

* automated change policy (ACP)

* enterprise software distribution (ESD)

* integration with developers’ workbench tools (CEI)

* custom report writing (CRW)

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Performance Monitoring Across the Enterprise with iTrinegy AppQoSiTrinegy AppQoS provides rapid answers to difficult questions related to networked application performance issues such as:

Why is my application running slow in the network?

Is it actually running slow? Compared to last month, or other users

Is it a network or server problem?

Are competing applications causing the problem?

What are people doing?

Who are my heaviest users?

iTrinegy AppQoS inspects all the traffic going backwards and forwards over a network segment and measures and records actual (rather than simulated) application response times for every transaction made to your key applications. It summarizes all of the network traffic (e.g. Http, Windows Networking, VoIP etc. – please see iTrinegy AppQoS Portable for further information), network users, applications and associated utilization. With only a few clicks, you will be able to rapidly identify what’s really causing poor application response time.

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Lightweight Test Automation Framework is an integration testing tool, which works by scripting the web browser to perform a sequence of actions against your application’s UI – entering text and clicking links and buttons exactly as a real user would – and then checking that the expected results can be seen in the browser window.

Just in case you don’t know the difference between unit testing and integration testing:

Unit tests work against the API of a particular component in your code.  Ideally, they test only that single isolated unit (hence the name), which allows them to pinpoint any problems exactly where they occur.  Unit testing tools for .NET include NUnit, mbUnit, and xUnit.

Integrations tests combine multiple components.  Typically, they work at the UI level to test that your JavaScript, your HTML, your controller code, your model code, and your database all work together.  Integration testing tools for .NET include Selenium, Watin, and Lightweight Test Automation Framework.

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Security Software Testing Suite (SSTS) is a set of tools used for testing Windows security software that implement application-based security – i.e. most of the Internet security suites, HIPS, personal firewalls, behavior blockers etc.

SSTS is based on the idea of independent programs that attempt to bypass various features of the security software. Each test of SSTS is directed against a single feature or against a few closely connected features of the security software.

SSTS is used in our Proactive Security Challenge project, which goal is to rate and compare abilities of security software for Windows.  SSTS is published with its source code, which makes the testing as transparent as possible.  The suite contains many kinds of tests like outbound protection tests, self-defense tests, keylogger tests etc.  The tests in SSTS have a unified structure and user interface, hence using it is fast, easy and efficient.

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