Tue.Sep 10, 2019

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Selenium Automation Testing with Disabled JavaScript Settings — Is It Worth Your Time?

DZone

Testing the waters of Selenium Automation Testing. Selenium has been a pinnacle for open-source software in the industry of automated website testing. The automation testing framework is widely adopted by the testing community to help them in automating interactions with their web-application for desktops. I have been an automation tester for couple years now, and have been fondly towards Selenium ever since I knew what it’s capable of.

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Procella: unifying serving and analytical data at YouTube

The Morning Paper

Procella: unifying serving and analytical data at YouTube Chattopadhyay et al., VLDB’19. Academic papers aren’t usually set to music, but if they were the chorus of Queen’s “I want it all (and I want it now…)” seems appropriate here. Anchored in the primary use case of supporting Google’s YouTube business, what we’re looking at here could well be the future of data processing at Google.

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Why Is Load Testing Significant?

DZone

Load Testing can monitor the response times of the system for every single transaction during a set period of time. This kind of monitoring can bring significant information, precisely for stakeholders and business managers, who look for conclusions based on these outcomes, along with any data for supporting these findings. Such type of testing can also raise attention to any complexity and issues in the application software and fix these performance bottlenecks before they become extra problema

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Q&A: Does string::data() return a pointer valid for size() elements, or capacity() elements?

Sutter's Mill

A reader asked: In C++17, for std::string::data(), is the returned buffer valid for the range [data(), data() + size()), or is it valid for [data(), data + capacity())? The latter seems more intuitive and what I think most people would expect reserve() to create given the non-const version of data() since C++17. … and then helpfully included the answer, but in fairness clearly they were wondering whether cppreference.com was correct: Relevant quote from cppreference.com: … “Ret

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First Contentful Paint (FCP), Start Render, First Paint. How to properly measure the beginning of page rendering?

Dareboost

How to properly measure how fast a web page starts to display its content? Several Web performance metrics exist to answer this question, including First Paint, Start Render and one of the newest: First Contentful Paint (FCP). How does FCP stand out, what are its limitations? Let’s dive into the metrics that measure the browser’s … Continue reading First Contentful Paint (FCP), Start Render, First Paint.

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Reimagining Experimentation Analysis at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Toby Mao , Sri Sri Perangur , Colin McFarland Another day, another custom script to analyze an A/B test. Maybe you’ve done this before and have an old script lying around. If it’s new, it’s probably going to take some time to set up, right? Not at Netflix. ABlaze: The standard view of analyses in the XP UI Suppose you’re running a new video encoding test and theorize that the two new encodes should reduce play delay, a metric describing how long it takes for a video to play after you press the s

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First Contentful Paint (FCP), Start Render, First Paint. How to properly measure the beginning of page rendering?

Dareboost

How to properly measure how fast a web page starts to display its content? Several Web performance metrics exist to answer this question, including First Paint, Start Render and one of the newest: First Contentful Paint (FCP). How does FCP stand out, what are its limitations? Let’s dive into the metrics that measure the browser’s … Continue reading First Contentful Paint (FCP), Start Render, First Paint.

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