Credit Default Swap - A Credit Derivative Instrument
Credit Default Swap (CDS): - Credit Default Swap can be defined as the transfer of credit risk from one party to another. It is basically when a party called ‘A’ purchase the protection against the credit given to other party called ‘B’ from the third party called ‘C’. There are certain credit derivative processing companies [...]
The art of interviewing
“Q: Give me reasons why you are NOT suitable for this position. If you can convince me, you are in.”
Singleton pattern in MultiThreaded Environment
Singleton pattern, as we all know restricts instantiation of a class to single object. In this article, I’ll talk about the issues coming up due to Singleton pattern in MultiThreading environment. Also, I would like to discuss an alternate implementation of singleton pattern in java.
The Problem:
In our project, we were loading an xml file in [...]
Software test engineer’s persona and practice
What I have come to know through my experience as a software test engineer is this - If you want to be a good test engineer, you must have good technical knowledge, positive attitude, good communication skills and last but not the least, you should have very sound domain knowledge of the system you are [...]
Security Testing: Input validation & Access Control Techniques.
Security testing is not just limited to networks scanning now. This concern led me to pen down few concerns that may arise during security testing of any software, today’s industry is growing at fast pace and to keep a check on security threats is our responsibility. Most importantly in Internet’s era where people prefer to [...]
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services – Installation & Configuration
For steps with screen shots to install and configure Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services refer the following link:
http://blogs.ebusinessware.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/microsoft-sql-server-2005-reporting-services.pdf
Understanding Database Deadlocks
During early stages of computers, operating system were designed for running only one program at a time so that all resources of the system were available to a single program at same time. But later, operating systems were enhanced to run multiple programs at once, interleaving them. For that, programs were required to specify in [...]
Web Application Security
Web Application Security
As number of Internet Users are increasing day-by-day, companies are also providing more online facilities to the customers and along with these online facilities, risk of information sensitivity is also increasing, which is passed on the Internet. As we always hear about the threats related to online ids/passwords, hacking of personal, official and [...]
Cache implementation for multi threaded environment
Sometimes, we need to fetch data from a slow external system and data doesn’t even change often. At the cost of increased memory foot print, we can cache the data that can be expired time to time, knowing it can always be recreated when needed again.
Data caching limits the remote method invocations. It improves performance [...]
Why tester’s involvement is important in requirement gathering ?
It is very much important to include testing practices as early in the project as possible. The classic late involvement of testing in projects limits their efficiency. By the time testers get involved, all the development defects are already in the code, which makes detecting them much harder and fixing them much more costly. Late [...]