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16 Best Software Testing Podcasts in 2020

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Podcasting has been around since 2004, but now in 2020, it’s safe to say that we’ve entered the golden age for podcasting. Fortunately, the testing community has also entered the podcast sphere to the benefit of anyone who wants to learn and share ideas around software development and testing.

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Why Selenium Webdriver Is Developers' First Choice for Automation Testing

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Selenium was developed in 2004 by a global software company called Thoughtworks for internal purposes to automate the testing of web applications. Let’s understand some basics before moving ahead with the possible reasons for choosing Selenium WebDriver for automation testing. Background.

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5.5 mm in 1.25 nanoseconds

Randon ASCII

In 2004 I was working for Microsoft in the Xbox group, and a new console was being created. I will try to answer this but I must warn that I am a software developer with no formal training in hardware, so I might be misleading or wrong. Since the Xbox 360 CPU ran at 3.2 nanoseconds for the signals to propagate that 5.5 mm distance!

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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

To explain this example in more detail: The profiler periodically interrupts software execution, and for those disconnected stacks it happens to be the execution of the kernel software ("vfs*", "ext*", etc.). These partial stacks get grouped together on the left. Click here for a longer explanation. Yes, times have indeed changed.

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An Unbelievable Demo

Brendan Gregg

I was an independent performance consultant and Sun Microsystems had just released DTrace, a tool that could instrument all software. Note that I think my flame graph software is different: Since it is a simple algorithm that doesn't need much maintenance, I don't see a big problem with people rewriting it.

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NServiceBus now supports Microsoft Extensions DependencyInjection

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StructureMap and Castle Windsor were released in 2004, Spring.NET in 2005, and more after that, each with their own unique API, some more opinionated than others. The history of dependency injection (DI) containers in.NET is almost as long as.NET itself.

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Selenium Automation Script With JavaScript

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Selenium is an open-source automation framework initially introduced in 2004. The initial version released is just a single tool, but the latest version is now not only a tool — it’s a software suite with a pack of IDE, RC, and WebDriver. Using this framework, we can validate web applications across different browsers and platforms.