Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. Operating System (OS) settings Swappiness Swappiness is a Linux kernel setting that influences the behavior of the Virtual Memory manager when it needs to allocate a swap, ranging from 0-100.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober. Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober. Conventional computers now sport touchscreens and otherwise blur the lines between device types – and between mobile and desktop operating systems. Vitaly Friedman.

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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. These teams typically use standardized tools and follow a sequential process to build, review, test, deliver, and deploy code. Testing can be more complicated. Dynatrace news.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 22, 2021

We have grown accustomed and hooked to these devices which makes their application development a rather intense process. Frameworks and development tools also enhance the overall process reducing the efforts in application development. In this post, we will analyze these challenges of mobile app testing and how we can manage them.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Container security is the practice of applying security tools, processes, and policies to protect container-based workloads. However, to be secure, containers must be properly isolated from each other and from the host system itself. Network scanners that see systems from the “outside” perspective. Source code tests.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Effective management of memory stores with policies like LRU/LFU proactive monitoring of the replication process and advanced metrics such as cache hit ratio and persistence indicators are crucial for ensuring data integrity and optimizing Redis’s performance. offers the Software Watchdog specifically designed for this purpose.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Variations within these storage systems are called distributed file systems. Their design emphasizes increasing availability by spreading out files among different nodes or servers — this approach significantly reduces risks associated with losing or corrupting data due to node failure.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

This essentially means that your website should not only be mobile-friendly but it should also have a Responsive Web Design so that your target customers can access your products (or services) with ultra-ease on their hand-held devices. Different screen resolutions and viewport sizes add another layer of complexity to mobile website testing.

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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? What causes the long processing time?

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Testsigma

MARCH 12, 2021

This means that mobile app developers need to ensure that their applications are tested and tested well. The testing needs can be met via manual testing efforts of course and that is what teams do initially. Are your mobile testing cycles becoming longer day by day? This is where mobile test automation comes in.

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Testsigma

MAY 3, 2021

Web developers are moving their focus from desktop-first to mobile-first web design which further solidifies our understanding of how important this pocket device has become. What could be the best choice to cut down the costs and gain speed to move the pipeline faster than test automation? Variety of Device Settings.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

With the latest developments in IT sector services, the sector of QA testing has seen significant improvement and growth. The implementation of emerging technologies has helped improve the process of software development, testing, design and deployment. Many changes are rendered through automated testing.

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 27, 2019

We do ‘ Cross Browser Testing ’ to meet the end user expectations across different web browsers. In this article, we will see how we do cross browser testing in 2 ways: manual browser testing and automated browser testing. What is Cross Browser Testing? Need for Cross Browser Testing. But which is better?

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Testsigma

JANUARY 18, 2021

Web Developers frequently come across issues where the developed website or web application does not work as expected on certain combinations of browsers and operating systems. Does this mean that enough effort was not spent in the automation testing process? Introduction to Cross Browser Testing.

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Testsigma

JULY 3, 2021

If you’ve been performing on-premise testing in your organization, you know the rules already. But for the uninitiated, on-premise testing is a form of testing where testers perform tests on local machines, systems, or devices set up at an office. On-premise testing comes with a lot of responsibility.

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Testsigma

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Having an effective test automation system is an absolute necessity in today’s agile software development environments. Automation works great, especially in case of smoke and regression tests and helps the QA teams to easily create and execute test cases that are complex in nature. Test Script Issues.

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Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

You test your application on multiple browsers and mobile devices – including the various versions and operating systems that your users might be on. Thus, cross-browser testing is crucial, and seeing the number of browsers/devices you will have to execute it on – no easy feat. How do you do it?

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

According to IEEE Std 829-1998, Software Testing is defined as “the process of analyzing a software item to detect the differences between existing and required conditions (i.e. ” With the advent of new technologies and new software being released every day, software testing is gaining more strength and accolades.

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Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The process of web development has changed its meaning in the time span of twenty years ( 2000 to 2021). Earlier the process was simple and just three technologies could do all the job. I am sure people at that time had not heard about cross-browser testing. All these changes made one concrete effect on the testing world.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

If you’re a developer, a web designer, or a QA manager, you would want to ensure that your product delivers as promised. Facebook’s mobile device testing lab at the Prineville Data Centre is equipped with Android and iOS devices that test Facebook applications and Instagram. The Need For Mobile Testing Lab. Not really.

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Testsigma

JULY 24, 2021

Owing to the abundance of apps and websites in the market, an average user has several choices, and to ensure the user consumes your product, you’ll have to craft products that are compatible with their devices that run on various operating systems. Best Automation Testing Tools for Web and Mobile.

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Testsigma

JUNE 26, 2021

MarketQuest (2021) predicts automation testing to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 9.8% That brings us to the crux of our conversation — codeless test automation. In the past, it was always important for testers to learn to code and keep updating their skills for performing automation tests.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

So, it becomes the need of the hour to invest in mobile automation testing and avoid negative reviews and failures. So, with the increasing demand for mobile apps, automation testing techniques are also required to multiply. What is Mobile Automation testing? Why Should Businesses Invest in Mobile Automation Testing?

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Randon ASCII

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The short version is that calls to timeBeginPeriod from one process now affect other processes less than they used to, but there is still an effect. First, a bit of operating-system design context. Let’s imagine that Process A is sitting in a loop calling Sleep(1). The answer is hardware interrupts.

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Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

From game development to machine learning projects to neural networks to automation testing- everything is on the cloud. Automation testing has not been behind in the race of cloud technology. In this post, we will see a few important reasons in detail and how they attribute to why automation testing on the cloud is becoming popular.

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Testsigma

AUGUST 24, 2019

Software Automation Testing Challenges. Automation Testing is a byproduct of the need for efficient testing and innovation. Through Automation Testing, businesses can speed up the software testing process while expanding the test coverage. Without teamwork, testing would most likely fail.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Just a manual testing approach would not suffice for today’s wired devices and dynamic architectural applications of Industry 4.0. The way we now look at software engineering has revolutionized test automation, with QA teams adapting automation to expand test scope, increase efficiency and do more testing in less time.

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Percona

JUNE 5, 2023

However, in this case, with a little help from systemd , which manages all service processes, we will solve this little puzzle using PgBouncer with a concoction of configuration files. For the experienced sysadmin, there are actually quite a number of “magical” techniques. 22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:5432

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Automated testing is essential for balancing software quality with the accelerated velocity of release cycles, but because the toolchain that is supposed to enable automated testing has many moving parts, test automation becomes a parallel development project in organizations. Custom built frameworks.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Mobile applications, therefore, need to be built and tested with this difference in consideration. Following are a few things to consider when testing a mobile application : 1. Test on different screen sizes: Mobile devices are available in different screen sizes.

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Testsigma

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

But the one process that sometimes lacked that attention was quality of releases. The concept of DevTestOps was introduced to put special focus on continuous testing for each step of the development process along with DevOps to produce quick, frequent and quality releases. Let us discuss about Continuous Testing.

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John McCalpin

APRIL 25, 2023

This metric is interesting because we don’t always have the luxury of parallelizing every application we run, and our operating systems almost always process each call (e.g., This post is about a secondary performance characteristic — sustained memory bandwidth for a single thread running on a single core.

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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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Percona

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Transparent Huge Pages (THP) is a memory management feature in Linux operating systems that aims to enhance system performance. Database systems like MySQL rely on their own memory management systems, carefully designed to optimize performance and ensure efficient memory allocation.

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 28, 2019

During the entire SDLC phase, there are various kinds of testing performed at different stages. Each stage of testing has different objectives to fulfil. The testing phase starts with unit testing followed by integration testing, system testing, system integration testing, acceptance testing, and regression testing.

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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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Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Before proceeding, it is important to remind you of Peter’s warning from his article, which applies here as well: “The following instructions are designed to get a test instance running quickly and easily; you do not want to use these for production deployments.”

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