The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Martin Tingley with Wenjing Zheng , Simon Ejdemyr , Stephanie Lane , and Colin McFarland This is the third post in a multi-part series on how Netflix uses A/B tests to inform decisions and continuously innovate on our products. Have a look at Part 1 (Decision Making at Netflix) and Part 2 (What is an A/B Test?). Need to catch up?

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Martin Tingley with Wenjing Zheng , Simon Ejdemyr , Stephanie Lane , and Colin McFarland This is the fourth post in a multi-part series on how Netflix uses A/B tests to inform decisions and continuously innovate on our products. Have a look at Part 1 (Decision Making at Netflix), Part 2 (What is an A/B Test?), Need to catch up?

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DZone

OCTOBER 1, 2021

There was a time when we lined up on a Friday to draw enough cash from over the bank counter to see us through until Monday. Now it is quite possible to go entire weeks without using cash at all.

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Simform

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Regression testing is one of the types of testing that organizations conduct to verify that the core functionalities of the products are working well whenever there's an update or addition of a new element. Here, we discuss regression testing, its types, test cases, tools, techniques, and everything that is of utmost value.

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TechBeacon Testing

OCTOBER 26, 2021

And as we will discuss below, some link testing methods are not dependable. Unfortunately, there can sometimes be thousands of clickable and navigable links in a web app, making it tiresome (and potentially unreliable) to check all of them manually.

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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. The tests also discover a more modular architecture with subsystems that have clear responsibilities.

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Testlodge

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Table of Contents What is HTML Validation Testing? Benefits of HTML Validation Testing How to Validate HTML CSS and JavaScript Validation Challenges Tips Conclusion. What is HTML Validation Testing? HTML validation testing ensures that HTML code appears with the correct syntax and format. How to Validate HTML.

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Testsigma

OCTOBER 15, 2021

In general, most websites or web apps run into errors because of a solitary reason: solid cross-browser testing isn’t performed. When you perform cross-browser testing, you validate visual elements and ensure all functional and non-functional aspects of the website are consistent across different browsers.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Testing for mishaps you can predict is essential. Chaos engineering is a method of testing distributed software that deliberately introduces failure and faulty scenarios to verify its resilience in the face of random disruptions. Practitioners subject software to a controlled, simulated crisis to test for unstable behavior.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

At Netflix, we have significant investments in ensuring new versions of our applications are well tested. However, Netflix is available for streaming on thousands of types of devices and it is powered by hundreds of micro-services which are deployed independently, making it extremely challenging to comprehensively test internally.

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Simform

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This blog begins with understanding the importance of software testing, followed by an insight into cost-effective testing solutions and strategies to reduce software testing cost. We've tried to make this guide as practical as possible for you to find exact solutions to reduce software testing costs. .

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

By bringing AI to everything — from gathering telemetry to analyzing what’s happening across the full technology stack — your organization can have the reliable answers essential for automating application monitoring, testing, continuous delivery, application security, and incident response. Bring observability to everything.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2021

API testing complements monitoring. This is done through testing. If there’s a problem during testing, developers can quickly identify the root cause by looking at the differences in code between the last stable release and the release that produced the issue.

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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. Q1: What are your most and least favorite things about test automation?

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The eye-tracking methodology can be extremely valuable for usability tests since it records the journey without interfering with the users’ natural behavior. Imagine, for example, that you test a prototype but discover that users are not interacting with the interface how they are supposed to. Mariana Macedo. 2021-10-27T10:00:00+00:00.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 12, 2021

We know how to test whether or not code is correct (at least up to a certain limit). Given enough unit tests and acceptance tests, we can imagine a system for automatically generating code that is correct. But we don’t have methods to test for code that’s “good.” There are lots of ways to sort.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 14, 2021

This includes CloudOps, with a focus on incident management, DevOps for improved building and testing of applications, and SecOps for helping ensure applications are secured (purple arc). Issues in testing and deploying can be addressed automatically, which help streamline CI/CD pipelines and increase innovation throughput.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2021

It allows data scientists to define ML workflows, test them locally, scale-out to the cloud, and deploy to production in idiomatic Python code. It makes it easy for data scientists to express even complex machine learning applications in idiomatic Python, test them locally, or scale them out in the cloud?—?all

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Testsigma

OCTOBER 21, 2021

James Espie is a test specialist, a quality engineering proponent, and a continuous learner from Auckland, New Zealand. In this quick QnA, Espie makes the point that software quality begins with people, that more testing doesn’t necessarily mean better quality, and that context matters in metrics. But this is easier said than done.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Nx is an open-source build framework that helps you architect, test, and build at any scale — integrating seamlessly with modern technologies and libraries, while providing a robust command-line interface (CLI), caching, and dependency management. Nx provides standard tools for testing and styling in your Next.js applications.

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CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The stylesheet has loads of little things you can test for, like attributes you don’t need, blocking resources, and elements that are out of order. Harry then applies styling and pseudo-content to the blocks so you can use the stylesheet as a visual performance debugging tool. That’s just darn clever, that.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 11, 2021

GCF pairs well with Google Cloud Build, which enables testing and other CI/CD tasks based on functions originating in GCF. The headlining feature of GCP is Google’s Compute Engine , a service for creating and running virtual machines in the Google infrastructure—a direct analog to AWS’ EC2 instances and Azure’s VMs.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 13, 2021

For example, with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) , the software changes frequently and automatically, and there’s often not enough time to perform traditional software vulnerability tests.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

We use Lighthouse and WebPagetest as our synthetic testing tools for performance to measure CLS. At first, we decided to run some tests using synthetic testing tools. Therefore having a low CLS value for a page ensures there are no random layout shifts causing user frustration. How We Discovered CLS Issue In Our Product Page.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The latter will include prototyping, usability, and interaction design testing, as well as building wireframes and exploring user journeys. Through analyzing the designers’ previous projects, asking questions at the interviews, or analyzing test tasks and preliminary proposals. How or where can you use them efficiently?

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Gtmetrix

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Overview GTmetrix tests your page’s performance by loading it in our browser, and using Lighthouse (and our own custom audits) to evaluate its performance. We explain why GTmetrix may sometimes not see the same content you’re seeing in your browser.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 19, 2021

TestRail, by Gurock, is a test case management solution for QA and development teams to efficiently manage test cases, plans and runs. . Watch this brief demo of Affinity Modeling: Tasktop Hub users can find this new feature in the Collection configuration page, under the Options menu for work item selection. Learn more in our docs.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Behavioral Design Workshop Susan Weinschenk 5 sessions Nov 3–17 ux Deep Dive On Accessibility Testing Manuel Matuzovi? If you’d like to test the waters and join in a Smashing Workshop for free, we’ve got just a workshop for you to sign up for. 5 sessions Nov 4–18 dev Early birds! Black Belt ?? 10 tickets No expiry Smashing!

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2021

From information material for airports and train stations and simple pointers to help people find the next spot where they can get tested, to badges for hotels and restaurants that an object has been disinfected, and so many other use cases. The well-known stickers remind you to wear a mask and keep your distance. Jump to the free icon pack.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Testing Your API. Ideally to test your API you need to make a request to the function from a completely unrelated origin. You can fork this and change the Axios request URL to test your function. the complete deployed version of my-first-function.js for my demo API is as follows: Demo API: My First Function. Large preview ).

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Speed Curve

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Recipes are detailed walkthroughs – including example scripting – of multi-step tasks such as: Simulate a user journey in your synthetic testing. Simulate a SPA or AJAX navigation. Submit a login form. Simulate a checkout process. Add a repeat view. Track size for a single resource. We'll be adding more recipes to this section.

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Learn how engineering teams are using products like StackHawk and Snyk to add security bug testing to their CI pipelines. There are a new breed of tools hitting the market that enable developers to take the lead on AppSec. Stateful JavaScript Apps. Effortlessly add state to your Javascript apps with FaunaDB. Generous free tier.

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Percona Community

OCTOBER 14, 2021

We encourage you to try this PMM Internal Release in testing environments only, as these packages and images are not fully production-ready. Release notes for Percona Monitoring and Management 2.23.0 Public Release can be found here 2.23.0 Preview Release Percona Monitoring and Management 2.23.0 is released today as a Preview Release.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

And if you’re already a CSS pro, there are also challenges to put your knowledge to the test. If you want to put your CSS skills to the test, CSS Battle is the perfect place to do so. Below we compiled some useful — and fun! — resources that are perfect to take your CSS skills to the next level. CSS Vocab And Cheatsheets.

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DZone

OCTOBER 21, 2021

In the world of technology, exceptions are said to be as old as programming itself. The occurrence of an exception during the execution of code can result in unexpected behavior unless the exception is properly handled in the code. Exceptions are not bad but are a fundamental part of modern programming.

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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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CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The stylesheet has loads of little things you can test for, like attributes you don’t need, blocking resources, and elements that are out of order. Harry then applies styling and pseudo-content to the blocks so you can use the stylesheet as a visual performance debugging tool. That’s just darn clever, that.

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