Welcome to the this week’s Quotes of the Week. In this week’s software testing news: HP announces new mobile testing software, Apple shut down TestFlight and Google’s Bug Hunters look to Apple.
HP announces software for testing Mobile App Functionality
This week HP announced that the company has developed new on-premise software for testing mobile app functionality and performance. The new software; HP Mobile Centre will allows testers to test software very quickly and is designed for those that are developers of apps and mobile friendly software. Read More here.
Apple shutting down TestFlight
“Apps from TestFlightApp.com will not be transferred to the new service. App Developers will need to set up their apps for the new TestFlight Beta Testing in iTunes Connect.”
Apple announced recently that the company is shutting down its TestFlight after the company integrated it with Itunes Connect. The service was designed to allow users avail of a beta distribution service with external beta testers. With the intergration into iTunes, the service will now be winded down. Read More here.
Google’s Bug Hunters Turn Attention to Apple
“For the protection of our customers, Apple does not disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until a full investigation has occurred”
Project Zero (Google’s Software Vulnerabilities task team) have found vulnerabilities with Apple’s OS X 10. This is only a few weeks after the company discovered issues with Microsoft Windows 8. Apple has quietly patched the issue since but has not commented on the report. Read More here.
Google increases awards for Bug Hunters
“Researchers’ efforts through these programs, combined with our own internal security work, make it increasingly difficult to find bugs”
Google has for the past number of years rewarded bug hunters with cash sums for finding bugs in their product. Now the company have established a Vulnerability Reserach Grant programme. The new programme will offer grants to researchers before they start looking for software bugs. Hunting software bugs is a lucrative bisiness. Google alone paid out $1.5 million in rewards to over 200 researchers who reported more than 500 security bugs in 2014. The reserach grants will vary in size from $500 to $3,133.7 (a specific hacker term). Read More here.
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