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. Concept testing is a research method that involves getting user feedback during the upfront part of the design process to give feedback on potential solutions. What Is Concept Testing? Victor Yocco.

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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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Official Blog - World Web Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Choosing the correct programming language for web development is critical for producing outstanding websites. PHP is a language that has weathered the test of time and is still frequently used by web developers. The Process of Hiring Web Developers in India! But make sure they have the right skills for your business.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

Email Testing Flow As It Should Be. Email Testing Flow As It Should Be. We spend a lot of time and effort crafting emails with a specific purpose: to make their recipients read them and take the desired actions. The three known bottlenecks of every email sequence include: Deliverability. Andriy Zapisotskyi.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Most of you have probably seen the following Google PageSpeed Insights optimization suggestion at one point or another when running a speed test: By compressing and adjusting the size of … you can save 14.2 An easy way to compress images is with our image processing service that happens to also be fully integrated into our existing network.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2018

For a typical site, that might involve routing the request to the correct part of the application, authenticating the request, making multiple calls to backend systems such as databases and so on. We could add descriptions to our example like so: Server-Timing: db;dur=123;desc="Database", tmpl;dur=56;desc="Template processing".

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

This liberal attitude is known as Postel’s Law, which is conveyed superbly by Jeremy Keith in Resilient Web Design : “Even if there are errors in the HTML or CSS, the browser will still attempt to process the information, skipping over any pieces that it can’t parse.”. The current implementation forces end-users to test our assumptions.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I’d been using the Internet since about 1984, for email and newsgroups, sharing files like my white papers via ftp sites, but in the early 1990’s the world wide web came along, and Sun was a very early adopter. I’d helped eBay recover from capacity related outages in 1999 and had setup their capacity planning processes.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 5, 2023

In the past, ITOps teams communicated by phone, email, and other tools, interacting manually with ticketing systems for technical support and incident management. Both platforms also have robust APIs and integrations with other tools and services, which makes it easy to integrate ChatOps functionality into existing workflows and processes.

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Percona

OCTOBER 20, 2023

email: Email of the user text type. email: Email of the user text type. This process ensures that rows with similar ID values are distributed across multiple shards in a way that attempts to distribute the data evenly. The output showcases the advantage of parallel processing. 1ubuntu1~20.04.1)

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Dotcom-Montior

APRIL 23, 2021

A lot of time and resources are invested in making sure your customers get your emails. This is where email infrastructure comes in handy. While you have limited control over user interaction with your emails, monitoring email infrastructure is in your hands. What is Email Infrastructure? Mail Server.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 30, 2021

They manage all processes and data related to the store like customer, orders, shipments, payments, and so on. Although there may be tonnes of ways to process payments, we’ll demonstrate how to use just one, Paypal. Using the developer account, you will need to create a test organization and seed it with test data.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

We want to ensure that the input is perfectly correct before the data is even sent to the server. Subscribe to our email newsletter to not miss the next ones. When large parts of the interface are disabled , most customers will assume that the system is busy , and some process is happening in the background on the page.

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Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Hot backups vs. cold backups: A hot backup — used to minimize downtime and ensure data availability for critical applications — allows you to create a copy of a database while the system is still actively serving user requests and processing transactions. Whatever plan you arrive at, you must test it.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

Of the 1 million home pages that were tested, over 51 million errors were detected averaging 51.4 A fussy child on your lap moving around while you are trying to read an email or an injured arm as you try to answer an email, hindering your ability to type as you normally would is a situational impairment. errors per page.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Unexpected outcomes, security, safety, fairness and bias, and privacy are the biggest risks for which adopters are testing. Users and Nonusers AI adoption is in the process of becoming widespread, but it’s still not universal. Until AI reaches 100%, it’s still in the process of adoption. Only 4% pointed to lower head counts.

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O'Reilly

MARCH 23, 2023

While most of the foundation models people are talking about are LLMs, foundation models aren’t limited to language: a generative art model like Stable Diffusion incorporates the ability to process language, but the ability to generate images belongs to an entirely different branch of AI. Why are we starting by naming all the names?

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

Maintaining End-To-End Quality With Visual Testing. Maintaining End-To-End Quality With Visual Testing. Testing is a critical part of any developer’s workflow. But often automated tests can be a pain to manage. A Quick Look At Some Of The Types Of Automated Testing. Colby Fayock. 2021-07-19T10:30:00+00:00.

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 13, 2019

I was doing some cursory research and running a few tests against a potential client’s site so as to get a good understanding of the shape of things before we were to work together. If you’re interested, you can read the unedited email in full. Can you see it? View full size (31KB). The response I got shed some light on a few things.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

Whether you’re just starting out with Figma or have been using it for a good while now, this post will give you just enough pointers to make your design process faster and smoother. HTML email templates. responsive design and testing. All components are pre-filled with the correct CSS or HTML elements. Table of Contents.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Email Newsletter with useful tips on front-end, design & UX. Your (smashing) email. The problem with style guides is that they add friction to the writing process. CI automates the building and testing of documentation. The Style Guides. More after jump! Once a week.

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MachMetrics

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

When most people test their site speed, they test a single, static page. That works well for testing home pages, or product pages – but what about a checkout process? How do you test more complex, multi-step processes? Testing a page behind a log in. Testing the speed of a checkout process.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

The small measured gaps and frequent hand-off of the lead imply that differences in capabilities and correctness aren't the result of one team focusing on performance while others chase entirely different goals [4]. In line with Web Platform Tests data, Chromium and Firefox implement more features and deliver them to market more steadily.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Hence, they need to be tested thoroughly and for each use-case, before they are ready to be deployed in the production server. We all know how important it is to perform unit testing on separate modules or “units of codes”. Integration testing addresses such problems by focusing on the integration of units of codes or software modules.

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Dynatrace

MAY 9, 2019

In his email to me, he relayed the latest Dynatrace Davis story which shows how MTTR has been improved since they are using Dynatrace: “Last Tuesday at 7:28 am, Dynatrace detected an abnormal failure rate on one of our Applications deployed on Glassfish. A couple of manual test runs validated that the fix worked as expected.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

All processes on these hosts are recognized, and Citrix processes are grouped together in order to characterize the combined Citrix overhead on the infrastructure. Citrix user processes are also monitored, and when a user process starts to consume significant resources on a shared machine, it is surfaced by Dynatrace.

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Testsigma

MARCH 14, 2020

Regression testing is a test approach which helps testers make sure there are no new bugs due to code changes or because a new functionality was added to an existing one. To achieve this goal, the QA team should be aware of the end to end requirements & should draft the test plan covering all the functionalities/requirements.

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Testsigma

AUGUST 29, 2019

In this era, every organization is on the path of test automation to increase efficiency. Just like manual testing, automation testing also needs proper planning, structure, monitoring, and maintenance. Test cases help clarify what needs to be done in order to test a system. This is sure to improve the ROI.

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Percona

JULY 15, 2023

They are a roadmap that speeds up the process of finding specific rows in a large table. The process of crafting indexes involves a trade-off between improved data retrieval speed and impact on data modification operations. Over-indexing on too many columns could lead to unnecessary overhead.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Infrequent failures exercise poorly tested capabilities that tend to amplify problems in unexpected ways rather than mitigate them, so it’s important to carefully exercise the system to ensure that design controls are well tested and operating correctly. Book: Engineering a Safer World by Nancy G.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Infrequent failures exercise poorly tested capabilities that tend to amplify problems in unexpected ways rather than mitigate them, so it’s important to carefully exercise the system to ensure that design controls are well tested and operating correctly. Book: Engineering a Safer World by Nancy G.

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Testsigma

OCTOBER 31, 2019

We need more automated testing as software gets more sophisticated. They found that most of these organizations(76%) were automating less than half of their test cases in 2018. However, almost half of these enterprises expect to automate 50% of the test cases by this year. Identify ideal test cases for automated testing.

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Testsigma

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

As a small business or a startup, we often make decisions that can change the whole structure of our working processes. We shall also see how decisions are made in an enterprise and why cross-browser testing is the most important thing in 2021 to sustain a healthy business. What does enterprise mean from a tester’s POV? Reputation.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

What you may be overlooking is that peak-event readiness is about more than just load testing or ensuring that your servers are up throughout a specific timeframe. At a minimum, Optimal recommends that you have RUM, APM, synthetic, and load test tools set up, instrumented, and producing meaningful data.

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Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Function-specific standalone components make testing and maintenance easy. If the student gains extra data down the road, this function won’t be modified to accommodate that. // Don't pass primitives <StudentAccount name={user.name} email={user.email} id={user.id} /> // Pass objects <StudentAccount user={user} /> 6.

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Testsigma

MARCH 24, 2021

Such case studies uplift the importance of a better user interface and hence the importance of the user interface testing, or UI testing. Although UI testing is a requirement for anything you develop with a GUI, in this post, we will be focussed only on the Android applications. Android UI Testing and Its Types.

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Randon ASCII

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

It’s frustrating to leave your computer running tests overnight only to have crashes pollute the results. Instead of doing a dozen builds in a night to test a new build optimization I changed my script to just build Chrome in a loop until it failed. 1) Building Chrome very quickly causes CcmExec.exe to leak process handles.

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