Read the "Database Activity Monitoring (DAM)" chapter from "HOWTO Secure and Audit Oracle 10g and 11g" (CRC Press, 2009) and learn how to leverage DAM to prevent SQL injection attacks, monitor privileged users and track access to sensitive data. 

Rapid bottleneck identification (RBI) is a new testing methodology that allows quality assurance (QA) professionals to very quickly uncover Web application performance limitations and determine the impact of those limitations on the end user experience. 

Download your free trial of IBM Rational Quality Manager V2, a collaborative, Web-based, quality management solution that offers comprehensive test planning and test asset management from requirements to defects. 

Now is the time to realize all of the benefits of virtualizing your test and development lab. This chapter highlights some of the benefits of consolidating your test and development environments through virtualization, including costs savings, accelerated time to deployment and system consistency throughout your environment. 

Read this white paper to learn how adding Surgient VQMS to HP Quality Center helps you centrally manage and allocate test lab resources from HP Quality Center across multiple and distributed teams according to business policies and quotas, and more. 

HP TestDirector for Quality Center software drives a more effective and efficient global application testing process and supports high levels of communication and collaboration among distributed testing teams. 

HP QAInspect delivers automated security information that QA professionals and software testers can access at any point in the application development process to identify and remediate potential security defects. 

Optimizing the benefits of a data grid built with Oracle Coherence relies upon creating a modular, balanced architecture. Matching the number of application servers, memory capacity, and quantity of processing nodes to the target workload characteristics is important to achieving the best performance. 

Check out this e-Kit for comprehensive information related to web application security strategies and web application security testing through SaaS. Included are several white papers, demos, and podcasts. 

This transcript will discuss optimizing application performance and quality, and various strategies that IDC sees in its research to help you improve your decision making about how you approach quality, management and performance optimization. Read on to learn more about how to protect your online revenue through web performance testing. 

This ezine covers the topic of testing and retesting defects and cites the Blackberry blackouts of 2007 and 2008 as examples of issues that could have been detected by regressing testing. 

This first issue of SearchSoftwareQuality.com's Software Testing E-zine covers two new technology areas - virtualization and rich Internet applications (RIAs) - that are changing software testing approaches and presenting new challenges.