http://grigorova.com a blog about software testing and QA Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:27:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yesterday was the official start of the Facebook Connect platform. Facebook Connect has been around for quite some time, but the use was limited to preaproved websites. Since yesterday it is publicly open and everyone can start building social applications with it. Facebook Connect Facebook Connect is the new step ... http://grigorova.com/facebook-connect/ Orkut is a new social network with huge potential. This social network is run by Google and it is still in beta. But aren't all Google free services still in beta? Orkut Firstly when Orkut has started working it was possible to make an account only if someone sends you an ... http://grigorova.com/orkut/ Every since Facebook has opened its platform for third party applications, every other social network is starting to think about providing the opportunity to third party companies for applications development that are using the social network user base and functionality. LinkedIn LinkedIn is the biggest professionals social network. In Linked in ... http://grigorova.com/linkedin-applications-development/ After Steve Balmer (Microsoft CEO) announced some time ago that Windows 7 will be concentrated on cloud computing, these days it really proved that Microsoft is really going on that way. I don't quite remember the time line but it was some time around the year 2000 that Bill ... http://grigorova.com/azure/ Do you see it? Do you see where the applications development is going to? The feature of applications development Software application products are evolving. If you look 10 years ago the web development was just kicking off. Before that everything was desktop products and client/server technology. And now ... http://grigorova.com/applications-development/ With the beginning of the test plan on every software product comes the question for the test automation and the manual testing. Which one should we use? Manual testing First it is very important to notice that manual testing is not just random clicks on the user interface of a software application. ... http://grigorova.com/test-automation/ More than 50% of the software organizations in Bulgaria are experiencing shortages of skilled professionals in the field of software testing and quality assurance of applications (QA). This is yet another indicator showing that there is need in the field of software testing and QA in Bulgaria. Universities and schools ... http://grigorova.com/outsourcing-needed/ This week we are hiring! We have win some new projects that are supposed to start in the next two months so we are hiring new testers. As a outsourcing company we need to constantly show great quality and good personal development. That is why we have started offering two ... http://grigorova.com/software-testing-interview-questions/ Today my company started a new software project about performance testing a desktop software. The software is a huge ERP product that needs to be constantly tested for performance. The project is for a UK company that needs software testing outsourcing for its products. The main goal for us ... http://grigorova.com/new-outsourcing-project/ It was a great weekend for me. Usually I would spend the weekend learning new stuff or just reading some technical book about software testing or about outsourcing, but the last weekend was great. The weather was perfectly sunny and not that cold for the season. Usually in Bulgaria the ... http://grigorova.com/33/