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COVER STORY
Cultivate Your Applications
For Ultra Fast Performance
To grow the best-performing Web applications, you must nurture them
from the start and throughout the SDLC.
By Mark Lustig and Aaron Cook
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4• Editorial
If your organization isn’t thinking about or already employing a center of excel- lence to reduce defects and improve quality, you’re not keeping up with the IT Joneses.
6• Contributors
Get to know this month’s experts and
the best practices they preach.
7 • Out of the Box
News and products for testers.
9 • ST&Pedia
Industry lingo that gets you up to speed.
33 • Best Practices
When the Java Virtual Machine comes into play, garbage time isn’t just for bas- ketball players.
By Joel Shore
34 • Future Test
The future of testing is in challenges,
opportunities and the Internet.
By Murtada Elfahal
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Automate Web
Service Testing;
Be Ready to Strike
Automation techniques from the real world will pin your competitors to the floor while your team bowls them over with perfect performance.
By Sergei Baranov
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Live Test Data
Step-by-step guidance for entering the maze, picking the safest path and find- ing the most effective tests your data makes possible.
By Ross Collard
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