When you start to test a software application a pre-test should be executed first. First what is a pre-test? According to TMap NEXT® a pre-test is: ‘testing the delivered product in such a way that it is determined whether or not the product is of sufficient quality to execute a complete test of this product.’ [...]

The Application Security Verification Standard (ASVS) is a standard that every tester and developer must read! A tester/developer has to use parts of it in their daily routine. Let me explain what the ASVS is  and why to use it? The ASVS is developed in the OWASP community http://owasp.org/. OWASP is a worldwide and open [...]

Last month I wrote an article in the Computable about the added value of evaluations over testing. I translated the article and posted it on this blog. A colleague of mine mailed me about it and about the use of the V-Model, Agile development and other things related to evaluations. He came up with the [...]