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One day I was searching for the tools list which can be of little help for me to know about specific tool under specific category. I was referred to TesterTools by my mentor. Then after visiting the TesterTools I found it is like a library with huge information about Tools ranging from Open Source to Paid Licenses. I can say that if you want to know about the different kind of tools that can be of help for you then you must visit www.testertools.com now.

What can you do at TesterTools?

1. You can find brief information about tools.

2. You could be introduced to the new tool which can be of help for you in your testing activity.

3. How about contributing to testertools? You can even do that.

4. You can talk and discuss with other people in the forum.

5. Are you a blog reader? (Yes, you’re. That’s why you are reading this article).  They have constant updates about the tools in their blog.

6. And lots more for you which is FREE.

It’s up to you if you want to utilize TesterTools or not.

Visit TesterTools now if you want to realize what were you missing all these days.

Thanks for your time reading this article. Have a nice time.

Looking at the post title I remember my Software Engineering text book which had a diagram in blocks which was looked like a waterfall. What is this exactly? It’s one of the software development process in which you can see the progress flowing (water flowing) downwards through the different phases like “Requirements”, “Design”, “Implementation”, “Verification” & “Maintenance”.

There are many other models which are discovered by people but at last what I think is all the models in some or the other way convey the same message but with the different style of approach or process. The other models include Spiral/Iterative Development, Rapid Application Development which is also known as RAD, Agile Development, Scrum Development, V-Mode, Modified V-Model, CCMI, Test Driven Development, TMM & much more. I am not thorough with these models other than knowing few points about these. Some of these models are outdated but I see that still people in interviews ask these questions (I don’t know why, maybe they want interviewees to remember the great people who introduced these models to people“.

In Photo Gallery you can find the “Waterfall Model” in pictorial representation.

This post was written to update my knowledge about these models as well as helping others to understand little about the process models.

Thanks for your time.

I have created a document which consists of very few MS-DOS commands that could of help for a tester. It is a PDF document. You need to have “Helper Application” Adobe Reader to read the document. You can re-distribute this document or make changes to document making it more good however please retain the credits to the author. The document is attached below.

Using Dial-Up? No worries it’s a very light weight document.

MS-DOS Commands – Reference Guide Document By Santhosh Tuppad

If you are a webmaster and you are using flat file database for storing any of your username or password or any confidential information. For Example: If you are running a forum that runs of flat file database probably you don’t have hosting support of MySQL or any other database. There are good things about flat file database but good things are also associated with vulnerabilities and open to threats sometimes. You must be worried if you are running flat file database. Crackers/Hackers are always hungry for flat file database.

How does it matter?

Flat file are always stored in plain text files.

Let me try to explain in simple words so that you can understand easily what am I trying to communicate.

For Example: I’m running a forum which is running on flat file database. Flat file database uses plain text files to store the username & password of all the members & administrator usernames in some format. There are no disadvantages which might affect the performance when I have hosted it on flat file database but besides performance there are many threats which might bring my forum down in a minute or more.

Consider that my usernamepassword.txt file has all the username and password of my forum members and administrator usernames. It is stored in /root/santhosh/forum/usernamepassword.txt. What if an attacker gets this path and get all the members list with their username and password. He/she can bring my whole forum down by getting the access of each member.

You might say “Finding the path is difficult, I agree” but attackers have a lot of patience to crack the password. They have a lot of techniques that you might not think of. Even Google is friend of an attacker. Google or any search engine might give them access to your database. I won’t reveal much information because there might be some readers who might misuse this article and do something that is not good. If you want more information on this you can e-mail me at santhosh@testersblog.com.

NOTE: Running your application on flat file database? No Worries there are preventive measures which can stop attacker from getting access to your flat file database. If you need tips on it then contact me so that I can help you in making your flat file database more secure.