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Taking into consideration the fact that IPv6 will be announced soon by many government and non-government organizations*, we did a comprehensive study on that matter, and were able to configure and test IPv6 deployments on clients with different OSs, routers and different types of servers. We are lucky to demonstrate you our findings in the attached presentation.

The agenda for the presentation in a brief:

1) The beginning covers theoretical aspects of IPv6 features – address syntax, prefixes, literals; types of IPv6 addresses; Neighbor Discovery basics; IPv6 Address Auto configuration Process & Auto configuration address states etc.

2) The second part of the presentation is practically oriented, with real examples on setups of:

• Clients - Windows, Linux, MAC OS;
• Servers - DNSsetup, remote authentication server setups (ldap, radius) and remote logging (syslogforwarding, SNMP logging);
• Router – Router Advertisement for IPv6.

Enjoy

* The U.S. Government, for example, has specified that the network backbones of all federal agencies must be capable of deploying IPv6 by 2008 and spent the money to acquire a /16 block (281 trillion subnet addresses) to start the deployment.

source: www.wikipedia.org

View the presentation: Introduction to IPv6 - Power point presentation.

Introduction

Google Calendar team has developed API for several programming languages (Python, PHP, .Net, Java, JavaScript) that wraps basic data API interaction using raw XML/HTTP. These APIs allow applications to view, manage and update calendars and calendar events in the form of Google Data API (GData) feeds. GData provides standard protocol, based on RSS and Atom for reading and writing data on Google’s applications.

I am going to cover only the Java API for interaction with Google Calendar, which hides the complexity of raw XML/HTTP.

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Me and my colleagues had a task to research advanced and effective tools for test management.

Background
According to our internal Quality Management System, and in particular its section concerning testing activities, we had to fill test cases and results from their execution in Word & Excel format as they were suitable and easily understandable from our customers. The maintenance of these documents was taking significant amount of the time for testing activities on the project.

Goal
The research goal was to find a suitable system, which to allow the QA engineers to create, perform, manage test scenarios in a centralized repository, and to generate reports from the execution of each test in same comprehensive way as our Excel template did. The latter is very important, since it would serve as an evidence for our work to customers.

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