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Find vulnerabilities in your code—don’t wait for someone to exploit them

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

However, organizations face several challenges with current security testing practices, including: Limited resources: Across the globe, it’s increasingly difficult to find and allocate the necessary personnel to do thorough security testing. High false-positive rates: Traditional security testing tools generate numerous findings.

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Dynatrace to acquire Rookout to deliver code debugging in production environments

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2023

Developers are increasingly responsible for ensuring the quality and security of code throughout the software lifecycle. Developer-first observability Adding Rookout to the Dynatrace platform will provide developers with increased code-level observability of Kubernetes-hosted production environments.

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Simple Code: Immutability

DZone

JULY 10, 2021

In the world of object-oriented programming, it's not as used and as easy to use approach but there are ways to incorporate immutability to parts of the code and I strongly suggest you do so too. If you're familiar with functional programming you surely recognize the concept of immutability because it's a key ingredient of the paradigm.

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Introducing SafeTest: A Novel Approach to Front End Testing

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

by Moshe Kolodny In this post, we’re excited to introduce SafeTest, a revolutionary library that offers a fresh perspective on End-To-End (E2E) tests for web-based User Interface (UI) applications. Inability to test CORS setup or GraphQL calls. Complex and unintuitive authoring and debugging of tests.

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Complete Automation Testing — Is It Feasible?

DZone

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

It is a fact that software testing is time and resources consuming. Testing the software can be observed from different perspectives. It can be divided based on what we are testing. For example, each deliverable in the project, like the requirements, design, code, documents, user interface, etc., should be tested.

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Software Testing: Essential 4 Levels

DZone

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The goal of Levels of Testing is to make software testing more structured and efficient, as well as to make it easier to identify all available test cases and test scenarios at a given level. All of these steps go through the software testing process's tiers of testing.

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Regression Testing: Significance, Challenges, Best Practices and Tools

DZone

JUNE 30, 2022

To evade such anomalies in software, the QA specialist team performs regression tests (with the assistance of regression test tools). Tester teams should make certain that fresh code doesn’t conflict with older code and that unchanged code continues to function as expected.

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Testing Perl: To Plan or Not to Plan

DZone

MAY 11, 2021

You'd like to maintain some level of software quality (or kwalitee ), so you're writing a suite of test scripts. Whether you're writing them first (good for you for practicing test-driven development !) When you first start, you probably have no idea how many tests your scripts will contain.

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White Box Testing Tutorial: A Comprehensive Guide With Examples and Best Practices

DZone

JUNE 2, 2023

White box testing is a software testing method in which the internal structure and implementation of the software being tested are known and used as the basis for designing the test cases. It is also known as glass box, transparent box, clear box, or structural testing.

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DevOps engineer tools: Deploy, test, evaluate, repeat

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Rob Jahn, Dynatrace senior technical partner manager, and Andreas Grabner, Dynatrace DevOps activist discussed the role of platform engineers in the video “ Deploy, Test, Evaluate, Repeat : The Power of Webhooks for DevOps Platforms Engineers.” Issue tracking system to manage issues, trigger workflows, and track code changes.

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The Quality of Auto-Generated Code

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Kevlin Henney and I were riffing on some ideas about GitHub Copilot , the tool for automatically generating code base on GPT-3’s language model, trained on the body of code that’s in GitHub. First, we wondered about code quality. We know how to test whether or not code is correct (at least up to a certain limit).

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The Value Of Concept Testing As Part Of Product Design

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The Value Of Concept Testing As Part Of Product Design. The Value Of Concept Testing As Part Of Product Design. UX design teams are passionate about our approach to solving problems and providing users with experiences that lead to their desired outcomes. What Is Concept Testing? Victor Yocco.

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Understanding Black Box Testing - Types, Techniques, and Examples

DZone

DECEMBER 21, 2021

What comes to your mind when you hear the term Black box, specifically concerning testing? Well, it is something that is not very common to listen to but remains an essential form of software testing. It is a software testing technique to examine the functioning of software from an external outlook without digging deeper into its code.

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Building High-Quality Software

DZone

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

If you start catching bugs early, it will save you tons of time fixing them later.nn> Design reviewnnIt’s a very powerful tool when used in a good way. It sits at the very beginning of the process before the code is written and can save an immense amount of time down the road (of somebody spending tons of time just to get to a dead-end).

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How To Effectively Perform White Box Testing

DZone

AUGUST 31, 2021

White box testing is a type of testing technique that aims to evaluate the code, design, and internal structure of a program to improve its design, usability, and security. It is one of the two parts of Box Testing methodologies included in software QA testing.

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10 Reasons Why No-Code Is Better For App Development

Tech News Gather

JUNE 1, 2023

Coding is necessary when it comes to every app development. As a result, no code platform is quickly revolutionizing the app development industry. Let us explore the main reasons for the no-code app development in their projects. Mobile development takes a boon regarding the no-code platform for better insights.

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Percona PG_TDE and Ubuntu: Please Test Transparent Data Encryption for PostgreSQL

Percona

JANUARY 29, 2024

At Percona, we are in the process of developing PG_TDE, a tool designed to encrypt data using the AES-CTR encryption algorithm. This code is currently under development, and we are seeking your assistance in testing it.This blog […]

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How to Test Responsive Web Design Cross-Browser Compatibility

Testsigma

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Responsive Web Design (RWD) is a term that was defined by Ethan Marcotte in 2010 according to which, design and development of web pages should be responsive to different screen size, platform, and orientation. Here are the three key components of responsive web design – 1. Testing Responsive Web Design.

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Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers. Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers. When a company’s digital representation lacks a dedicated UX/UI design team, it can be hard to produce something that stands out from the crowd. That’s why you need a good UI/UX designer. Nataliya Sambir. And vice versa.

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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. Both valuing design and striving for continuous delivery are necessary.

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White Box Testing – Guide, Tools, and Techniques

Testlodge

MARCH 15, 2023

White box testing is a software testing approach based on an analysis of the internal structure of the component or system. Internal structure may include code, architecture, integrations, and data flows of a system. Why is White Box Testing Performed? Testers perform white box testing for several reasons.

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domain-driven design (ddd) vs Domain-Driven Design (DDD)

Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Practically everybody is doing domain-driven design in some form. It was before my time, but my understanding is that reason Eric Evans wrote the Domain-Driven Design (DDD) book in the early 2000s was to encourage better domain-driven design (ddd) practices in that era. What is domain-driven design (ddd)?

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Designing Human-Machine Interfaces For Vehicles Of The Future

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Designing Human-Machine Interfaces For Vehicles Of The Future. Designing Human-Machine Interfaces For Vehicles Of The Future. No matter what HMI we design, we need to allow users to take advantage of all that a system has to offer. Car HMI design is a relatively new field with its specifics that you need to be aware of.

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It’s A (Front-End Testing) Trap! Six Common Testing Pitfalls And How To Solve Them

Smashing Magazine

JULY 1, 2021

It’s A (Front-End Testing) Trap! Six Common Testing Pitfalls And How To Solve Them. It’s A (Front-End Testing) Trap! Six Common Testing Pitfalls And How To Solve Them. All right, but what does this have to do with testing? Well, it’s simply an apt allegory when it comes to dealing with tests in a code base.

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Benefits of Using an Online Bug Tracking System

DZone

MAY 19, 2020

When a software program or an application does not work the way it is created or designed to perform, it is called a software bug. In most cases, these errors are caused by developers or designers. The software testing team uses bug tracking software's to keep a track of bugs and to report them as the program is being tested.

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How Dynatrace empowers performance engineering teams to test at scale

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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4 Most Common Myths Around Test Automation

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. Such myths can unknowingly create a self-limiting boundary and negatively impact the possibilities of test automation.

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What is platform engineering?

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

A platform encompasses a set of tools, services, and infrastructure that enables developers to build, test, and deploy software applications. Platform engineers design and implement these platforms, as well as ensure their security, scalability, and reliability. The result is a cloud-native approach to software delivery.

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What is SOX Compliance Testing?

Testlodge

JULY 19, 2023

SOX compliance testing validates changes made to code and verifies adherence to internal controls. Testers are responsible for testing code changes to ensure accuracy. The overall intention of SOX testing is to protect stakeholders and other investors from corporate fraud.

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Automate CI/CD pipelines with Dynatrace: Part 1, Build stage

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

A conventional pipeline has the following stages: Build Deploy Test Validation Now, let’s explore the challenges that arise in the different stages of the pipeline and examine how the role of Dynatrace as the orchestrator can contribute to overcoming these challenges. The below screenshot shows the code initiating the Jenkins job.

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Open Sourcing the Netflix Domain Graph Service Framework: GraphQL for Spring Boot

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

There are two different approaches to GraphQL development; schema-first and code-first development. The code in your service only implements this schema. With code-first development , you don’t have a schema file. Instead, the schema gets generated at runtime based on definitions in code.

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Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober. Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober. Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces presents and shares real information on hardware, people, interactions, and environments. Cover design by Espen Brunborg.

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Scriptless Test automation solution: How to use it to improve your testing ROI?

Testsigma

JULY 6, 2021

“If you have bad tests, automation can help you do bad testing faster.”— How do we ensure that the test automation is working as a saviour and not adding to the testing woes? When the test automation is used diligently, over a period of time organizations start receiving the ROI. Quicker test automation.

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Increase the Performance of your Site with Lazy-Loading and Code-Splitting

Jos

APRIL 6, 2018

We are explicit about our dependencies, so we know what code we need to run to run a specific component. Lazy-loading and bundle splitting can have a huge impact on page performance: less code requested, parsed, and executed. Componentizing generally makes testing and maintenance easier. for some inspiration :).

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Increase the Performance of your Site with Lazy-Loading and Code-Splitting

Jos

APRIL 5, 2018

We are explicit about our dependencies, so we know what code we need to run to run a specific component. Lazy-loading and bundle splitting can have a huge impact on page performance: less code requested, parsed, and executed. Componentizing generally makes testing and maintenance easier. for some inspiration :).

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Accelerate and empower Site Reliability Engineering with Dynatrace observability

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2023

A few avenues for elevating CI/CD pipelines are: Enhancing the extent of automated test coverage during the testing phase. Additionally, introduce annotation events to notify Dynatrace of the progress within your testing phase. It also returns valuable time back to the SRE team. However, this is highly unlikely.

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How Dynatrace boosts production resilience with Site Reliability Guardian

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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Quality Assurance, Errors, and AI

O'Reilly

APRIL 9, 2024

“Hail the QA Engineer” may be clickbait, but it isn’t controversial to say that testing and debugging will rise in importance. First, one of the cornerstones of QA is testing. Generative AI can generate tests, of course—at least it can generate unit tests, which are fairly simple. Programming culture is another problem.

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Lerner?—?using RL agents for test case scheduling

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

using RL agents for test case scheduling By: Stanislav Kirdey , Kevin Cureton , Scott Rick , Sankar Ramanathan Introduction Netflix brings delightful customer experiences to homes on a variety of devices that continues to grow each day. Detect a regression in a test case. These problems could be solved in several different ways.

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Destructive Testing – How to Tear Apart a System

Testlodge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

A central goal of software testing is to find issues, especially critical ones, before they cause a problem in production. For example, it’s usual for software to have been designed with a specific use in mind, but the user doesn’t always understand the same way as the developers and testers. What is Destructive Testing?

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Modifying Headers In HTTP(s) Requests In UI Automation Testing

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Modifying Headers In HTTP(s) Requests In UI Automation Testing. Modifying Headers In HTTP(s) Requests In UI Automation Testing. without any need to code. Besides overriding X-frame-options , you can delete headers to minimize online tracking, override content-security-policy header, test sites in production, and so on.

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How do you decide your approach for mobile website testing?

Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

This essentially means that your website should not only be mobile-friendly but it should also have a Responsive Web Design so that your target customers can access your products (or services) with ultra-ease on their hand-held devices. Different screen resolutions and viewport sizes add another layer of complexity to mobile website testing.

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ShiftLeft on Refactoring a Live SaaS Environment

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Secrets and Security Insights are two new types of results we extract from code analysis, and the V4 API is a brand new RESTful JSON API with an OpenAPI/Swagger specification that you can use to access all of your results. NG SAST was initially designed only for vulnerabilities. Read more about these features in our announcement post.

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Reasons to Choose an Open-Source Test Automation Tool

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

To meet this demand, tester’s rely on test automation tools to rapidly roll out high-quality software. They are leveraging open-source testing tools that are reliable, secure, and free to use. Open source test automation tools have revolutionized the way teams test software. Check out Github.

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Find vulnerabilities in your code—don’t wait for someone to exploit them

Dynatrace to acquire Rookout to deliver code debugging in production environments

Trending Sources

Simple Code: Immutability

Introducing SafeTest: A Novel Approach to Front End Testing

Complete Automation Testing — Is It Feasible?

Software Testing: Essential 4 Levels

Regression Testing: Significance, Challenges, Best Practices and Tools

Testing Perl: To Plan or Not to Plan

White Box Testing Tutorial: A Comprehensive Guide With Examples and Best Practices

DevOps engineer tools: Deploy, test, evaluate, repeat

The Quality of Auto-Generated Code

The Value Of Concept Testing As Part Of Product Design

Understanding Black Box Testing - Types, Techniques, and Examples

Building High-Quality Software

How To Effectively Perform White Box Testing

10 Reasons Why No-Code Is Better For App Development

Percona PG_TDE and Ubuntu: Please Test Transparent Data Encryption for PostgreSQL

How to Test Responsive Web Design Cross-Browser Compatibility

Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers

Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

White Box Testing – Guide, Tools, and Techniques

domain-driven design (ddd) vs Domain-Driven Design (DDD)

Designing Human-Machine Interfaces For Vehicles Of The Future

It’s A (Front-End Testing) Trap! Six Common Testing Pitfalls And How To Solve Them

Benefits of Using an Online Bug Tracking System

How Dynatrace empowers performance engineering teams to test at scale

4 Most Common Myths Around Test Automation

What is platform engineering?

What is SOX Compliance Testing?

Automate CI/CD pipelines with Dynatrace: Part 1, Build stage

Open Sourcing the Netflix Domain Graph Service Framework: GraphQL for Spring Boot

Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober

Scriptless Test automation solution: How to use it to improve your testing ROI?

Increase the Performance of your Site with Lazy-Loading and Code-Splitting

Increase the Performance of your Site with Lazy-Loading and Code-Splitting

Accelerate and empower Site Reliability Engineering with Dynatrace observability

How Dynatrace boosts production resilience with Site Reliability Guardian

Quality Assurance, Errors, and AI

Lerner?—?using RL agents for test case scheduling

Destructive Testing – How to Tear Apart a System

Modifying Headers In HTTP(s) Requests In UI Automation Testing

How do you decide your approach for mobile website testing?

ShiftLeft on Refactoring a Live SaaS Environment

Reasons to Choose an Open-Source Test Automation Tool

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