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Referer spoofing

Referer spoofing is typically done for data privacy reasons, in testing, or in order to request information which some web servers may only supply in response to requests with specific HTTP referers.


Brian Marick

Brian Marick, a graduate of the University of Illinois, was a software testing specialist in the 1990s, an Agile software development specialist in the 2000s, and concentrates on programming in Ruby and Clojure in the 2010s.

Hardware description language

A hardware description language enables a precise, formal description of an electronic circuit that allows for the automated analysis, simulation, and simulated testing of an electronic circuit.

Infopulse Ukraine

According to the organization's website as of 2012, Infopulse has approximately 850 staff, delivering software development and testing, development of mobile applications and software, systems implementation and integration, IT infrastructure management and consulting services.


see also

Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network

CUWiN receives a large amount of assistance in software testing from the Center for Neighborhood Technology.

Pairwise

All-pairs testing, also known as pairwise testing, a software testing method.

RBT

Risk-based testing, type of software testing that prioritizes features and functions to be tested based on priority

Search-based software engineering

One of the earliest attempts in applying optimization to a software engineering problem was reported by Webb Miller and David Spooner in 1976 in the area of software testing.