Welcome to our weekly software testing news and Quotes of the Week from the world of software testing. This week locked hotels, Agile is king, Bugsee, Proov proof of concept testing and more.
Hotel Ransomed By Hackers
“We are planning at the next room refurbishment for old-fashioned door locks with real keys. Just like 111 years ago at the time of our great-grandfathers.”
The Managing Director Christoph Brandstaetter of the Hotel Romantik Seehotel Jaegerwirt explains what the hotel may do in future as the hotel was recently held to ransom by hackers who managed to hack the hotel key network and lock all the doors in the hotel. Only after a ransom payment were the doors unlocked. Read More About the Hotel Door Ransom here
Agile is King….For Now
“A total of 94% said many or some teams were committed to using the agile process. Only 6% said agile was either not used or still in the pilot project phase, an indicator of how thoroughly the agile development process has penetrated IT staffs.”
A report of a survey conducted by survey firm Dimension Data on Testing Trends in 2017 sponsored by Sauce Labs, supplier of a cloud-based, automated testing platform found that overall the Agile process was being adopted by software development teams. There was 723 IT professionals questioned as part of the survey on all aspects of Agile. One interesting result from the survey was that 14% of those surveyed were achieving Continuous Delivery even though 28% of those surveyed wanted to achieve it. Read More on the Agile Survey here
Proov aims to improve Proof of Concept (PoC) Testing
“I had spent the last 20 years coming up with new software and going through the proof of concept process. I had been thinking for some time that there must be an easier way of doing this, some way of automating it that was easier to do and, most importantly, more reliable.”
ProoV’s CEO Toby Olshanetsky tells ZDNet about the idea behind his new company Proov. The company offers a service that aims to improve the time taken in testing the proof of concept of a new software. The company will offer reduced time and resources spent on testing it claims. Read More here
Bugsee Launches
“It’s a powerful investigative tool for fast and efficient debugging and code fixing. Everything is logged at all times and the problematic sequence that led to the bug or crash is captured on video for easy identification and quick resolution.”
Alex Fishman, CEO and Co-Founder of Bugsee explains the benefits of using Bugsee for software testing on mobile apps. The software has just launched this week for corporate clients and hopes to help companies tackle bugs quicker in a market that sees Software bugs cost the U.S. economy nearly $60 billion annually. Read More on Bugsee here
GitHub Bounty Programme Turns Three
“We have developed API integrations with HackerOne to kick off our internal triage with developers and to maintain our bounty website at bounty.github.com. Bounty.github.com still includes our program’s leaderboard and detailed write-ups for submissions”
Greg Ose, GitHub’s Application Security Engineering Manager explains that GitHub moved to HackerOne in April 2016 after the software code depository website reviewed itys bug bounty programme. The site has paid out a total of $95,300 in bug bounties across 102 submissions.In 2016 GitHub paid out a total of $81,700 for 73 submissions. The site is offering bonus payments in January and February to celebrate three years of the Bug bounty programme. Read More here
