Testing sites for IE has become easier with modern.IE, the new set of tools and resources released by Microsoft, available free of cost to web developers. Another reason to make merry is that Microsoft has partnered with BrowserStack, a browser testing service that lets developers test their site on any browser on any Windows OS for free for a period of three months.

Chinese hackers are at it again. This time they've been targeting The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. The NY Times has reported that Chinese hackers have "persistently attacked" the company's reporters and employees' accounts and computers. The Times has managed to track down the location of these hackers to China using security experts. The company has so far been moderately successful in keeping the attackers at bay.

Program Verification Systems, PVS-Studio a static analyzer that could detect errors in source code of C/C++/C++11 applications, with the release of the latest version - 5.0, is now capable of exposing coding errors in C++Builder, Windows Phone 8 and Windows Store projects also through Static Code Analysis.

StresStimulus is a Load and Stress Testing tool built on top of Fiddler web debugging proxy by Stimulus Technology. StresStimulus released version 2.5 in the beginning of the year, introducing some new features to the Enterprise Edition of the tool. V2.5 of StresStimulus also completed the majority of the groundwork of migration to a standalone version and introduced a Service Provider Edition of the Tool designed for customers who wish to use StresStimulus to provide services to their own clients.

Qualitia is an easy yet powerful script less functional test automation platform for all leading test automation tools like QTP, RFT, Selenium and Web Driver. Qualitia makes test automation Quick, Maintainable and Cost effective. Qualitia has been selected by Gartner for consideration and related assessment in the Magic Quadrant report for 'Integrated Quality Suites' for the year 2013. NASSCOM's LaunchPAD initiative that recognizes the potential of emerging companies in the Indian technology product space has identified Qualitia Soft to be one such promising product.

QASymphony, a developer of Quality Management solutions, today announced it has recruited more than 300 U.S., European and Asian companies for its beta release of qTest, a cloud-based QA and software testing management application that organizes and streamlines the testing process.

The initial public release of the Enterprise Edition of StresStimulus was announced in Sept, last year. Enterprise Edition of the tool targets companies requiring complete load testing of high-traffic complex websites in a multi-machine / multi-geography environment. The first release contained the necessary enterprise features with the promise that more features will be packed in with next release of the tool. And here comes the next release of the tool within a quarter, to make the enterprise offering of the tool more accomplished.

SmartBear has grown from strength to strength within last two years providing development and testing software with a difference. The company has grown with a focused acquisition strategy throughout last few years with key acquisitions like AlterSite, AQTime, SoapUI, LoadUI after the original merger with AutomatedQA.

SpiraTeam the complete ALM solution from Inflectra comprising of SpiraTest, the QA and test Management System and SpiraPlan, the tool essential for complex software project planning, has been completely refurbished with its latest release. The release, I would say, is an ideal New Year gift from Inflectra to its customers.

Apica, a Stockholm and California based load testing and performance monitoring provider, has introduced ApicaLoadTest.com, a new load testing portal that brings together the tools, premium load generation testing networks, and professional experts to initiate on-demand cloud, mobile, and enterprise load tests for up to 2 million concurrent users.