DZone

JUNE 8, 2020

There are the above-mentioned family ones, social media, and what’s amounting to an endless stream of news. Oh, did we mention your conference call is scheduled to start in five minutes? So many distractions abound as most of us work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4). Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4). But unfortunately, when dealing with static assets and media files, there are a lot of caveats to deal with. Media Files. Media Files. Philip Kiely. 2020-06-25T12:30:00+00:00.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Through our experimentation, involving objective measurements and subjective visual tests, we found that the deep downscaler improves quality across various conventional video codecs and encoding configurations. Our A/B tests showed QoE improvements without any adverse streaming impact. over the traditional Lanczos downscaling.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

You can read more about Data Mesh, Netflix’s next-generation stream processing platform, here Building Reliable Data Pipelines Holden Karau, OSS Engineer, Data Platform Engineering, talks about the importance of reliable data pipelines and how to build them covering tools from testing to validation and auditing.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Our first step towards addressing this challenge is to actively engineer the removal of manual and subjective testing approaches across different functional touch points of the Netflix application on a streaming device. Why test High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) ?

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Testlodge

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Various testing activities take place throughout the software development lifecycle, including compatibility testing, which is a non-functional testing technique. Compatibility testing should be performed under all possible scenarios to prevent bug spillover in the production environment. Types of Compatibility Testing.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Social media was relatively quiet, and as always, the Dynatrace Insights team was benchmarking key retailer home pages from mobile and desktop perspectives. Below is a Dynatrace honeycomb chart depicting the performance of the synthetics tests tracked by the Dynatrace Business Insights team.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

by Liwei Guo , Ashwin Kumar Gopi Valliammal , Raymond Tam , Chris Pham , Agata Opalach , Weibo Ni AV1 is the first high-efficiency video codec format with a royalty-free license from Alliance of Open Media (AOMedia), made possible by wide-ranging industry commitment of expertise and resources.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 3, 2023

Make sure to stay connected with our social media pages. One way the agency saves money and resources is by shutting down the test environment every night and on the weekends. Tag us with #TechTransforms to be featured on our pages!

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 20, 2020

A/B Testing Result We were pretty confident that TLS 1.3 would reduce play delay, as we are no longer required to wait for the handshake to finish and we can instead issue the HTTP request for media data and receive the HTTP response for media data earlier. improvement in media rebuffers. Since TLS 1.3’s showed about a 7.4%

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Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2022

Therefore, as a developer and a tester, it becomes a highly responsible job to test these mobile applications and deliver the best quality. However, we understand that if you are in this profession, you probably know all the basic test cases, scenarios and the holes where bugs can be found. Security related scenarios in mobile testing.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

A vital aspect of such development is subjective testing with HDR encodes in order to generate training data. The pandemic, however, posed unique challenges in conducting a conventional in-lab subjective test with HDR encodes. A/B testing also allows us to get a read on the improvement in quality of experience (QoE).

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

This blog post will provide a detailed analysis of replay traffic testing, a versatile technique we have applied in the preliminary validation phase for multiple migration initiatives. In this testing strategy, we execute a copy (replay) of production traffic against a system’s existing and new versions to perform relevant validations.

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Tim Kadlec

APRIL 10, 2012

A little while back, I mentioned I was doing some research for the book about how images are downloaded when media queries are involved. To help with that, I wrote up some automated tests where Javascript could determine whether or not the image was requested and the results could be collected by Browserscope for review. Run the test.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters. The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters. And to ensure the quality of a product, we always need to test — on a number of devices, and in a number of conditions. What’s a representative device to test on in 2021? Kelvin Omereshone. State Of Mobile 2021.

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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. 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.

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TechBeacon Testing

AUGUST 6, 2021

In both cases, the site was unable to withstand the load, service was interrupted, and viewers quickly expressed their frustration on social media. During the final episode of Mare of Easttown , the HBO streaming service crashed—just as happened during HBO's Game of Thrones season 7 premiere.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 21, 2021

This creates a need to perform thorough testing of mobile applications and their usability. In this article, we will discuss how we can perform mobile usability testing that would enable us to create applications that live up to the user’s standards. What is mobile usability testing? Objectives of the usability test.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

and, just like other software or hardware products, DNA runs internal testing groups where employees can beta test new devices and give feedback so that any annoying usability issues are addressed before hitting the mass market. Hubi is one of those SmartTV boxes from DNA , one of Finland’s telecom providers.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 14, 2023

By Guru Tahasildar , Amir Ziai , Jonathan Solórzano-Hamilton , Kelli Griggs , Vi Iyengar Introduction Netflix leverages machine learning to create the best media for our members. In addition, we were able to perform a handful of A/B tests to validate or negate our hypotheses for tuning the search experience.

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Tim Kadlec

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

A few people—including Jason Grigsby , Greg Rewis and Aaron Mentele —have done some excellent testing about how images are downloaded when media queries are involved. So far, the tests have been conducted using manual methods. The test is fairly simple. We already knew this, but the tests are reinforcing it.

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Media : The next important aspect of a fully responsive website is media, i.e. images or videos. It is crucial to ensure that the media change their size or resolution according to the requirement 3. Testing Responsive Web Design. Manually testing across all the test environments consumes a lot of time and resources.

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Tim Kadlec

APRIL 10, 2013

One aspect in particular that is getting quite a bit of attention is the ability to embed media queries within SVG files. With embedded media queries you could apply an id or class to the portion of SVG that generates the slogan and then embed a media query within the SVG file that hides the slogan when the logo is below a certain size.

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Testsigma

APRIL 23, 2021

Whether it’s social media, shopping, productivity or fitness, there’s a visible surge in the number of mobile apps and their users. 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. .

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Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In IT, however, the cloud means a lot more than just streaming media on the system. If I consider current times, it has become a core concept in development, management, analytics, and also – automation testing. Cloud-based automation testing is a simple concept. If not, it is recommended to go through this post first.

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CSS Wizardry

MAY 19, 2020

I ran the same suite of tests against the harry.is For each test, I captured the following metrics: First Paint (FP): To what extent is the critical path affected? The Google Fonts file is the only render-blocking external resource either of the two tests has, and we can see they both have the exact same first paint. Lighthouse.

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Testsigma

JUNE 19, 2021

It is a common protocol for companies to disable two-factor authentication in their QA and Test Automation processes, the reason being the effort and cost required to carry it out. Challenges of testing 2FA-enabled applications: Requires connecting to a real device with a phone number to enable sending and verifying an OTP.

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Apica

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In our previous post, we established user journeys as the essential goal of software testing efforts. If that is true, what is stopping organizations from truly testing user journeys? Variability and complexity. But let’s not just concede failure to complexity again. Let’s move past it. Getting a grip on user intentions.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

The daily media consumption on mobile devices has grown by 504 percent since 2011[2]. Mobile-first design should be accompanied with mobile website testing for delivering a flawless web experience to your target audience. Different screen resolutions and viewport sizes add another layer of complexity to mobile website testing.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

Creative choices increasingly tested the limits of our encoding quality. Based on internal listening tests, listening test results provided by Dolby, and scientific studies, we determined that for Dolby Digital Plus at and above 640 kbps, the audio coding quality is perceptually transparent. We began streaming 5.1

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2023

While some of these are already done, such as adding additional compute, others require more development and testing. This is in active development and testing now, and we anticipate this being completed by the end of Q1. This includes email, a phone number (or click-to-talk), and even social media such as Twitter.

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Testsigma

MARCH 12, 2021

Consequently, there has also been an increase in the range of channels or media through which these websites are accessed. Hence, developers must test their websites for all types of browsers before they deploy them for production. What is cross-browser compatibility testing? efficiently. Let’s consider a scenario.

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Testsigma

JUNE 17, 2021

This is not a magical spin a website goes through but a carefully crafted and then tested code which is more important than we think! Geolocation website testing, or testing our website through various locations, tests it as if we are opening them in different regions of the world. Geolocation Testing and its importance.

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Testsigma

MARCH 23, 2020

What is a Test Framework? A test framework is a set of guidelines which can be followed to create test cases and related processes. These guidelines can be about coding practices, storage and retrieval of test data and test results, interaction with external resources and many other things.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

What types of devices and connections should I test on? Page Speed Benchmarks is an interactive dashboard that lets you explore and compare web performance data for leading websites across several industries – from retail to media. How we set up our testing. Find out more about why it's so important to test at slow speeds.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Thanks to the Web Platform Tests project and wpt.fyi , we have the makings of an answer for the first: Tests that fail only in a given browser. wpt.fyi 's new Compat 2021 dashboard narrows this full range of tests to a subset chosen to represent the most painful compatibility bugs : Stable-channel Compat 2021 results over time.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

That kind of granular approach would make it easier to develop statistical tests that could determine if the solution is harming any of the groups. Despite hand-wringing, article-writing, and congressional panels, social media remains largely unregulated. Public perception of AI is very different from public perception of social media.

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