Testlodge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

A central goal of software testing is to find issues, especially critical ones, before they cause a problem in production. This article discusses one measure to prevent these kinds of errors, known as destructive testing. What is Destructive Testing? How the system responds is then analyzed. Tools for Testing.

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Dynatrace

JULY 2, 2019

We’ve recently joined forces with Hackerone , the industry leader in external bug bounty programs. Wait, what is a bug bounty program? Bug bounties are commonly seen as the most effective and inexpensive way to identify vulnerabilities in live systems and products. Why does it matter to me as a customer?

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ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

We look here at a Gedankenexperiment: move 16 bytes per cycle , addressing not just the CPU movement, but also the surrounding system design. To move 16 bytes per cycle requires at least four instructions per cycle: load, store, test-done, and branch. The standard short move code tests that len is small, say < 16, and then does.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Application observability helps IT teams gain visibility in their highly distributed systems, but what is developer observability and why is it important? The scale and the highly distributed systems result in enormous amounts of data. They also care about infrastructure: SREs require system visibility and incident management.

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Sutter's Mill

MARCH 11, 2024

I chair the ISO C++ standards committee and I work for Microsoft, but these are my personal opinions and I hope they will invite more dialog across programming language and security communities. When I say “safety” unqualified here, I mean programming language safety, which benefits both software security and software safety.

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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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Testlodge

AUGUST 9, 2023

Basis path testing in software testing is a white box method where the tester examines the codebase to identify all possible paths that could be taken by the user to achieve their aims. These paths are then written as test cases to ensure all the different identified scenarios in the main branches are covered.

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 15, 2020

Understanding, detecting and localizing partial failures in large system software , Lou et al., Partial failures ( gray failures ) occur when some but not all of the functionalities of a system are broken. Here are the key findings: Partial failures appear throughout the release history of each system, 54% within the last three years.

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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.

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 9, 2024

Kevlin Henney and I recently discussed whether automated code generation, using some future version of GitHub Copilot or the like, could ever replace higher-level languages. As coding assistants become more accurate, it seems likely to assume that they will eventually stop being “assistants” and take over the job of writing code.

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Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

It’s easy to see why, with benefits such as better testing, easier deployment, faster performance, and more. Then, they can split these services into functional application programming interfaces (APIs), rather than shipping applications as one large, collective unit. But nothing is perfect — and microservices is no exception.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

This begins not only in designing the algorithm or coming out with efficient and robust architecture but right onto the choice of programming language. Recently, I spent some time checking on the Performance (not a very detailed study) of the various programming languages. In Byteland they have a very strange monetary system.

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Testlodge

APRIL 19, 2023

Integration testing involves taking units or modules and testing how they work once integrated with a system’s other units. A module can be something as simple as a bug fix, a story, or something more extensive such as adding a new feature or third-party option to a system.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2022

Shifting from monolith to microservices makes it easier to test, develop, and release innovative features more rapidly. IDC predicted, by 2022, 90% of all applications will feature microservices architectures that improve the ability to design, debug, update, and use third-party code. Easier to test. Easier to develop.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 18, 2022

Whether deployment of a new system, a new release, or a rolling patch update, I wanted it done consistently and successfully every time. In some cases, this meant testing my scripted methodology hundreds of times before deploying to production in order to catch every nuance and condition that could affect the result.

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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. There are four major types of controls.

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O'Reilly

JULY 11, 2023

Matt Welsh has been talking and writing about the end of programming as such. He’s asking whether large language models eliminate programming as we know it, and he’s excited that the answer is “yes”: eventually, if not in the immediate future. AIs generate incorrect code, and that’s not going to end soon.

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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? Risks of not Performing Non-Functional Testing.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2024

If system failures occur, teams must resolve them quickly and resolutely. Maximizing a strong foundation of IT infrastructure performance and security means effectively utilizing all the data that these systems produce to drive risk management processes and decision-making. Automate stress-testing and regulatory reporting requirements.

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HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

HammerDB is a load testing and benchmarking application for relational databases. All the databases that HammerDB tests implement a form of MVCC (multi-version concurrency control). On high-performance multi-core systems all the supported databases can return performance in the many millions of transactions per minute.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 19, 2023

When organizations focus on data privacy by design, they build security considerations into cloud systems upfront rather than as a bolt-on consideration. Practices include continuous security testing, promoting a mature DevSecOps culture, and more. Log4j is a ubiquitous software code in various consumer-facing products and services.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Local Testing A Serverless API (API Gateway And Lambda). Local Testing A Serverless API (API Gateway And Lambda). This article is for anyone struggling with testing cloud services locally, and specifically for people wanting to locally test an API that uses API Gateway and Lambda, with the Serverless framework, on AWS.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

As we look at today’s applications, microservices, and DevOps teams, we see leaders are tasked with supporting complex distributed applications using new technologies spread across systems in multiple locations. Let’s dive into how these metrics and DevOps KPIs can help your team perform better and deliver better code.

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Dynatrace

MAY 30, 2023

Just copy and paste your code, make changes to the “green” version, and deploy “green” alongside “blue.” A “deployment” no longer means a “release” Using feature flags, “deploying” code no longer means “releasing code to end users.” After all, if you know that by default, no one gets the new code, your deployment is safe.

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PDC

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Parallel programming solves big numerical problems by dividing them into smaller sub-tasks, and hence reduces the overall computational time on multi-processor and/or multi-core machines. Traditionally, Python is considered to not support parallel programming very well, partly because of the global interpreter lock (GIL). Serial code.

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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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Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2022

With this approach, teams can scale testing for all environments, which reduces efforts in replicating, updating, and maintaining test scripts. The ability to scale testing as part of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) has proven difficult. No external tools or additional configurations are needed.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Typically, the attackers attempt to exploit some weakness in the vendor’s development or delivery life cycle and attempt to inject malicious code before an application is signed and certified. Dynatrace tracks worst-case scenarios and business risks as part of its business continuity planning program. It all starts with the code.

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Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Note: All the code samples have been tested using MongoDB Driver v2.8.1 🚧 Remember to… Modify the file paths and connection URLs in the code samples to your own file paths and URLs. Else the code samples will not work. Else the code samples will not work. along with.NET Framework v4.6.1.

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O'Reilly

AUGUST 9, 2022

GitHub Copilot (based on a model named Codex , which is derived from GPT-3) generates code in a number of programming languages, based on comments that the user writes. Going in the other direction, GPT-3 has proven to be surprisingly good at explaining code. In the 1950s, computers were programmed in machine language.

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Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

Building on the success of DevOps practices, GitOps is a relatively new way to manage infrastructure through code and automation, around a single Git repository (or a storage system for all the changes and files that relate to a given project). Development teams use GitOps to specify their infrastructure requirements in code.

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Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

DevOps aims to move applications more quickly into production by releasing new builds frequently — often several times per day — and incorporating constant feedback and testing, both during development and after software is deployed. In addition, monitoring DevOps processes provide the following benefits: Improve system performance.

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

IT automation is the practice of using coded instructions to carry out IT tasks without human intervention. At its most basic, automating IT processes works by executing scripts or procedures either on a schedule or in response to particular events, such as checking a file into a code repository. Testing automation can be painstaking.

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Percona

DECEMBER 22, 2023

pt - galera - log - explainer takes raw log files, usually very verbose as the one available in the regression test suite , and makes short summary out of them: $./bin/pt-galera-log-explainer bin/pt-galera-log-explainer list --all src/go/pt-galera-log-explainer/tests/logs/merge_rotated_daily/node1.20230315.log 12346 s76 -> 127.0.0.1:12347

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Testsigma

JUNE 3, 2021

These are the errors that also need attention during the testing phase. We can divide the errors during software development into two sections for easy understanding: Software errors Testing errors. These errors are caught during software documentation testing. Let’s understand each of them in detail below. Software errors.

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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

JANUARY 31, 2022

The DevOps approach to developing software aims to speed applications into production by releasing small builds frequently as code evolves. On the left side of the loop, teams plan, develop, and test software in pre-production. To automate part of the process, teams can use application programming interface calls.

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