The Test Insider Volume 3: 7 Ways to Reduce Time to Test

Today's network equipment and application servers are getting so sophisticated that it is not possible to test every configuration or deployment scenario. To make matters worse, test engineers are being asked to accomplish their testing faster and with fewer resources. This unique combination of increased complexity and economic pressure actually creates a significant opportunity for test engineers to shine. We lead off The Test Insider Volume III with seven ways to help reduce time-to-test, lower overall testing costs, speed product development and provide your customers with superior product, not to mention make you look like a hero at schedule time.

Enjoy and keep on testing!

Quick Links:

• "7 Ways to Reduce Time-to-Test & Accelerate Product Development"
• Firewall Testing Webcast & BreakingPoint Firewall Test Methodology
• Interactive Tcl Shell Enables Automation and Accelerates Product Development - Todd Manning
• Attacking Critical Internet Infrastructure - HD Moore

"7 Ways to Reduce Time-to-Test & Accelerate Product Development" Examines Testing Best Practices

Learn how to simplify your testing tools configuration, automate script recreation, better leverage physical layer switching, quickly reproduce bugs to accelerate QA cycles and much more. Download the Reduce Time-to-Test White Paper.

BreakingPoint Publishes Firewall Test Methodology for Download

In late 2008 our interactive discussion around the future of Firewall testing brought together experts from BreakingPoint and Check Point to examine current failures in testing high-performance Firewalls. Catch up on that discussion by listening to the webcast and downloading BreakingPoint's Firewall Test Methodology. The test methodology provides guidelines for realistic testing of Firewalls, another way for you to reduce your time-to-test and accelerate product development. Download the Firewall Test Methodology and listen to the Firewall testing webcast.

Interactive Tcl Shell for Testing Automation

BreakingPoint Labs' Todd Manning takes a look at BreakingPoint's custom Tcl shell that provides the API for controlling your devices. As Todd writes, this shell is used as the interpreter for Tcl scripts, as well as an interactive shell and a great way to explore and learn the API. The automation afforded by using Tcl reduces the time it takes to test and deploy network equipment. Be sure to subscribe to the BreakingPoint Labs blog since Todd will be sharing more tips and code that will help leverage automation in your testing efforts. Read More.

Attacking Critical Internet Infrastructure

HD Moore spearheaded this post, following Alexander Sotirov, Jacob Appelbaum, and a team of researchers whom identified a vulnerability in the Internet Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) used to issue digital certificates for secure websites. Read up on all the details and be sure to check out the comments section that includes a response from Verisign's Vice President of Product Marketing, Tim Callan. Read More.