Normally I would only post this under my Cybersecurity blog, but as this can be checked during the testing cycle I thought it might work out well in the QA blog. CSRF is a vulnerability in web applications, where an attacker can send a POST to the web app from a different origin (domain). For …
Logic and reason are so important in how we relate to our world. Reacting in emotionalism will only lead to error and regretful mistakes. Acting with emotion alone, people can harm others or harm corporations, thinking they are hitting back against a problem but in reality are creating a new problem. I want to discuss …
I used to enjoy Quora, although it was always a haven for ego’s. Lately I returned to Quora to find it to be a Tigger Point for people. It is a site that brings out the utter worst aspects of humanity. People calling for genocide, praising executions, bigoted views and outspoken racism. It seems that …
For testing audio on a VOIP connection, the audio is managed through RTP packets. This audio can be rebuilt by sorting the RTP packets and outputting a raw audio file. Wireshark actually has a GUI to do all this fairly easily. It can detect VOIP and reveal the audio, but to do this from a …
Portswigger has an amazing and popular tool called Burp Suite. Generally I would write about it over on my Information Security blog, FFE4.org, but today I wanted to talk about it on the Quality Assurance blog. Although it’s a security tool, its purpose is to find holes and bugs in web applications. For that reason …
If you’re like me, you take lots of notes. When I’m going through an installation of a new OS on a physical machine, I track my notes but often they get disconnected as I don’t want to pay for expensive cloud hosting. Even without cloud hosting, most note taking apps become costly. Evernote just raised …
Precondition: I’m looking to upgrade my FujiFilm X-T2 camera to something a bit more modern and flexible. I got caught up in the hype on the X100VI and was waiting for production supply to come up, where I’d pull the trigger and buy it…. Then I saw the sample shots taken from other users, and …
I stepped into my first QA role in 2005 or 2006 while at Warner Bros. Prior to that, I worked as a web developer. Since then I have stayed the path and remained in QA, getting more experience from various positions at Yahoo!, Universal Music Group, eHarmony and Toll Free Forwarding. Over time I’ve been …
Back in 2012 I got hired by a telecom company, as a primary/Sr. Quality Assurance Engineer. My main staple was to test software quality for their web development projects, however a need came up within my first few months: Build a tool to test call completion across different carriers. The complexity here, is well beyond …
A QA Team should be able to add a monitoring system to their machines with a bit of effort. I did this on my own, on my own time. It took me a few weeks and a few retries with getting ELK setup. But once I had it working I was able to consume data …