The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

This blog series will examine the tools, techniques, and strategies we have utilized to achieve this goal. The first phase involves validating functional correctness, scalability, and performance concerns and ensuring the new systems’ resilience before the migration. This approach has a handful of benefits.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 12, 2021

Enters Cross Browser Testing, a comprehensive way of finding and fixing compatibility bottlenecks. Along with the browser, the “ Viewport ” is also a key aspect of cross browser compatibility testing as it plays a critical role in how the application will display. What Is Covered Under Cross Browser Compatibility Testing?

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Testlodge

MARCH 12, 2024

System testing involves analyzing the behavior and functionality of a fully integrated application. It is the third of the four levels of testing, performed after unit and integration testing but before user acceptance testing. Types of System Testing This kind of testing can be both functional and non-functional.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2022

Automating DevOps practices and workflows is critical to eliminating silos. At Dynatrace Perform, the annual software intelligence platform conference, we will highlight new integrations that eliminate toolchain silos, tame complexity, and automate DevOps practices. Automating DevOps practices boosts development speed and code quality.

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Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

This new standard will provide a vendor-neutral and future-proof approach for integrating feature flagging and management solutions to simplify, accelerate, and ultimately automate release cycles at scale. They enable product delivery and SRE teams to turn functionality on and off at runtime without deploying new code.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

To ensure high standards, it’s essential that your organization establish automated validations in an early phase of the software development process—ideally when code is written. Validation tasks are then extended left to cover performance testing and release validation in a pre-production environment.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

We knew that given our scale, we needed to rely heavily on automations and that we needed to build our solutions using battle tested scalable infrastructure. Building on top of step functions, we created a 4 step remediation process: pre-processing, decision, remediation, and post-processing.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Two important ways to improve this metric are to implement quality assurance testing throughout multiple development environments and to automate testing and DevOps processes. A change failure rate above 40% can indicate poor testing procedures, which means teams will need to make more changes than necessary, eroding efficiency.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 28, 2022

Integrating security too late in the SDLC, expanding cloud access, and delayed security testing are just a few examples of security roadblocks to effective DevSecOps. Prioritize vulnerabilities using automated risk assessment. Prioritize issues by vulnerable component. Clearing up security blind spots for good.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

Operational automation–including but not limited to, auto diagnosis, auto remediation, auto configuration, auto tuning, auto scaling, auto debugging, and auto testing–is key to the success of modern data platforms. Fully automated. Therefore, the operational cost increases linearly with the number of failed jobs.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2021

As organizations develop more applications and microservices, they are discovering they also need to run more performance tests in the same amount of time or less to meet service-level objectives (SLOs) that fulfill service-level agreements (SLAs). How can organizations address this process bottleneck and run more tests in less time?

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2023

As our CTO Bernd Greifeneder shared in his blog post , what was a relatively small software release resulted in a large number of our customers b eing una ble to access their Dynatrace environments. While some of these are already done, such as adding additional compute, others require more development and testing.

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Dynatrace

MAY 4, 2022

Cloud-native applications now dominate IT as DevOps teams respond to growing demands to deliver functionality faster and more securely. Because cloud-native technologies are flexible and scale automatically, teams can replace manual application monitoring and testing methods to keep pace with innovation. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

Quality gates include technical, operational, and business indicators that enable consistent, automated, and continuous evaluation of software quality to ensure it meets the objectives of all Biz, Dev, and Ops stakeholders. Automating quality gates creates reliable checks and balances and speeds up the process by avoiding manual intervention.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 17, 2021

Application security tests and what they do. Application security used to be a function performed by the security team. Once an application passed all the functional tests, and before it moved into production, it was put through a gauntlet of security tests. We need a better approach.

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Testsigma

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Over the course of two decades, he has helped Fortune 500 companies implement Agile testing practices. He has also authored a number of books on quality engineering and test automation. Automation used to be a nice-to-have skill. When I started my career, automation was used for automating UI-based regression testing.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This blog post will outline the top three questions raised during the session and provide thorough responses from our team of experts. Another case is where you are struggling with automating your day-to-day routine, and your custom scripts are maintained by a separate team now. Q2: How does Kubernetes interact with Jenkins automation?

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Testsigma

APRIL 4, 2022

A common theme among most software testing organizations is their escalating interest in Test Automation. While test automation has grown in popularity, there are still many myths and biases surrounding it. Test Automation != Test Execution. Automated testing is often viewed as executing tests.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2021

The piecemeal approach many organizations take when working quickly creates functional gaps and complexity.”. It’s important to factor in not only how long you are spending in staging, testing, and production, but also how long you’re spending between phases,” he said. Where could you benefit from automation and self-service?

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Testsigma

AUGUST 12, 2021

Owing to how we consume content and perform our day-to-day functions now, businesses are optimizing web apps and how! The Importance of Testing Web Applications. To ensure our web app performs as intended across various devices and browsers — we have to test our web app. Modern Automated Testing Tools for Web Applications.

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Testsigma

JULY 31, 2021

Scriptless test automation might mean different things to different people but the motive with which is made is to get better results in less time. Scriptless removes the barrier of learning and implementing a scripting language while you can automate the same scenarios. Today, test automation is moving towards scriptless.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

By Benson Ma , Alok Ahuja Introduction At Netflix, hundreds of different device types, from streaming sticks to smart TVs, are tested every day through automation to ensure that new software releases continue to deliver the quality of the Netflix experience that our customers enjoy.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Why exactly this happens is explained in full detail in the blog post by Jean-François Gagné (JF). In this blog post, we will explain an approach to detect and fix transactions on the crashed MySQL master server in a semisynchronous replication setup, and how to re-slave it back into your master-slave setup. Default database: 'test'.

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Testlodge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Black box testing functions on not knowing a software’s internal structure. Black Box Testing Basics The main focus of black box testing is inputs and outputs. A tester must first understand the requirements when testing a function. Why is Black Box Testing Performed? Let’s use an example.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This blog provides explains the SEC disclosure and what it means for application security, best practices, and how your organization can prepare for the new requirements. Don’t assume that applications are free of vulnerabilities because your organization has tooling — such as application security testing — and processes in place.

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Testsigma

OCTOBER 6, 2020

According to a survey conducted on software test automation , 51% of organisations prefer to retrain existing staff in test automation skills. While there are still 49% that would like to hire them specially for test automation related tasks. And, 14% said they’d like to have no manual testing at all.”

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Enprowess

OCTOBER 7, 2021

8 Functional Testing types. Quick Summary: In the most straightforward and simple words, functional testing tests various aspects of an application, website, or system to guarantee that it is correctly doing what it should be. What is Functional testing? What to test in functional testing?

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Mobile app monitoring focuses on functions inherent to the app itself plus issues related to connection and networking. Many users point to a lack of functionality as a reason for uninstalling apps. Incorporate automation. Automating key processes such as crash detection and time spent in app lets teams focus on finding answers.

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Testsigma

OCTOBER 28, 2021

He has dabbled in software development, testing, and automation, and often shares his learnings in his blog. In this QnA, Rahul makes the point that a randomly failing test is always worth investigating and that assumptions are dangerous in testing. The concept of automation extends well beyond a tool.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

And why have SLOs and SLIs become so important as teams automate processes to consistently meet SLAs and error budgets? As defined by Gartner , service-level objectives are an agreed-upon target within an SLA that must be achieved for each activity, function, and process to provide the best opportunity for customer success.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2020

While most government agencies and commercial enterprises have digital services in place, the current volume of usage — including traffic to critical employment, health and retail/eCommerce services — has reached levels that many organizations have never seen before or tested against. But often the best strategy is to conduct a stress test.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2021

Automation gives us the ability to create a predictable level of quality at scale with limited resources. Combining the power of automation with version-controlled configurations lands us at GitOps – you describe the configuration of your system as a set of files that you process and apply in an environment. Identifiers are great!

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Testsigma

APRIL 23, 2021

So, there’s a solid reason why mobile app testing is a crucial step in any app development process. To ensure our users get a seamless experience across any device — we perform mobile app testing. . That’s where mobile app automation testing comes into the picture. Best Mobile App Automation Testing Tools.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Image taken from a previously published blog post As you can see, our code was just a part (#2 in the diagram) of this monolithic service. Migration Testing Infrastructure Our monolith had been around for many years and hadn’t been created with functional and unit testing in mind, so those were independently bolted on by each UI team.

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Testsigma

JULY 6, 2021

Having a coded approach to test automation has its benefits. It certainly does give you the power to be extra flexible in terms of test case creation. Hence, you need to decide if that is really the power you need because, in the end, you need automation that gives you returns on your investment(ROI). When to use.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 20, 2020

By deploying a new version of your app into a staging environment, you can easily test it before it goes live. You can now simplify cloud operations with automated observability into the performance of your Azure cloud platform services in context with the performance of your applications. . What are Azure Deployment Slots? .

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Testlodge

JANUARY 26, 2022

Non-functional testing focuses on user expectations, whereas functional testing is to do with user requirements. Non-functional testing examines how a system operates rather than looking at specific functions or behaviors. Why is Non-Functional Testing necessary?

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