Articles

ApriorIT promotes experience sharing and so performs the program, according to which our specialists from different directions write interesting articles - to share the knowledge they have.

You can find our articles on different software development protals, and some of them were awarded by coders' communities. We are very proud of it.

In the Articles section, we publish all the articles from our specialists.

Getting the File System Image and Deleted Data Recovery

Details: Category: Software Development Articles; Created on Wednesday, 22 December 2010 14:36

This article describes the process of recovering of deleted data from the flash drive.

TestComplete: Storing of Test Data in External Files

Details: Category: Software QA Articles; Created on Friday, 17 December 2010 13:10

In this article, I will describe the usage of external files for storing of test data and their usage in TestComplete scripts. I will describe some good and bad variants for storing data and thus explain why I chose external files. Also, I will give general examples of functions that work with *.csv files and an example of building and using of *.csv file for search options.

Testing of Applications that Work with Databases

Details: Category: Software QA Articles; Created on Thursday, 16 December 2010 14:54

Databases are an essential part of the modern software such as client-server software or web-applications.

Our team has some experience in testing of applications that work with databases. The purpose of this article is to sum up the gathered experience and to share it with those who faced the similar task for the first time.

The article is a small manual with practical ideas that can be useful while writing the test plan for your application. Test cases are gathered with no relation to some definite type of application or DBMS (Database Management System); that is why they do not claim to be taken “as is”. After reading this article, you will be able to adapt them to your concrete product.

Specifics of Testing of Sound Redirection in Terminal Sessions

Details: Category: Software QA Articles; Created on Thursday, 16 December 2010 14:21

Nowadays, software virtualization systems have become widespread. The end user can use virtual applications and desktops. When creating such virtualization systems, developers take into account the customer preferences (the end-user preferences) and usability. That is why, testers face a lot of diverse functionality when testing them. One such functionality is the redirection of sound to the terminal session.

In this article, we will examine the specifics of testing of sound redirection in terminal sessions. We will also consider main notions of digital sound, sound settings, and instruments, which are required for testing.

Applied OpenSSL: CTR mode in file encryption

Details: Category: Software Development Articles; Created on Wednesday, 08 December 2010 15:17

Information security on PC becomes more and more popular, so I want to cover some issues of this topic – in particular, the using of ciphers to prevent data stealing from a physically removed hard disk.