Groovy and Grails have been picking up steam over the past year. Groovy claims to bridge the gap between the scripting and enterprise Java worlds. There’s also increasing support for the two technologies from biggies like Oracle.

Buggy software is the cause of pain for the customers. Organizations can’t afford to have defects in software once it goes into production. Software vendors are constantly struggling to deliver zero defect products/systems. Still every other day we hear about the buggy software.

Usually, software testing follows a traditional waterfall development process approach. But with SCRUM software testing can be more effective using an iterative lifecycle, feedback loops approach. Scrum is nothing but a process, which is based on iterative, incremental practices to manage software development.

There are lots of automation testing tools available in the market. Organizations adopt any such testing tool and automated testing is carried out. Rather automated scripts are prepared and executed. But reuse of these scripts in regression testing becomes a big problem. That’s where effective implementation automated regression testing system comes into picture.

Today, Segue Software released SilkTest 7.6. SilkTest 7.6 will have support for applications running on Solaris, UNIX and Linux platforms. With this release SilkTest widens its presence in functional testing environments. SilkTest is the solution for automating applications on various platforms as Windows, UNIX, and Linux.

At the IBM Rational Development Conference 2005 in Bangalore, India, IBM unveiled the new Rational Performance Tester for z/OS. Performance tester is based on the user emulation technology and enables to simulate the thousand simultaneous users of critical business applications. This is the only performance and load testing toll available which uses zSeries hardware platform for load testing.