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Understanding When to Use a Test Tool vs. a Test System

DZone

Testing is a mission-critical aspect of the software development lifecycle (SDLC). You'd be hard-pressed to find a software development professional who disagrees. Yet, for all the importance that testing has in the SDLC, there is a misconception among many about the difference between a testing tool and a testing system. Understanding the difference is important, particularly if you're a decision-maker who is responsible for ensuring that your company's software development teams have the resou

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How TripleLift Built an Adtech Data Pipeline Processing Billions of Events Per Day

High Scalability

This is a guest post by Eunice Do , Data Engineer at TripleLift , a technology company leading the next generation of programmatic advertising. What is the name of your system and where can we find out more about it? The system is the data pipeline at TripleLift. TripleLift is an adtech company, and like most companies in this industry, we deal with high volumes of data on a daily basis.

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XUnit Testing Tutorial: Environment Setup For Selenium Testing

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xUnit.net (also referred to as xUnit) framework is a popular open-source unit testing framework for the.Net platform. The framework is built with a community focus. Since there is a focus on the community, it is easier to expand upon than other popular Selenium test automation frameworks. As xUnit is written by the creators of the NUnit framework, you would find a lot of similarities between the two frameworks.

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Ensure great customer experience with fast analysis of mobile app crashes

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Mobile apps have taken over—they make life so much easier in so many ways. At the same time, mobile experiences have conditioned mobile consumers to expect an ever-growing level of speed, convenience, and personalization—no matter if it’s ordering food, scheduling a doctor’s appointment, or paying bills online. In these situations, a sudden app crash can make the difference between you or your competitor completing the transaction and retaining that customer’s b

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Windows Apps GUI Test Automation Using PyWinAuto

DZone

Overview. In this article, we will understand how to create test automation script for Windows application using simple Python Scripting. We will walk through a scenario of automating a desktop application using PyWinAuto. Scenario. Amy is an automation tester working XYZ project. Amy has knowledge in basic python scripting and frameworks. Amy is looking for opensource tool based on python to automate desktop applications.

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Are your JavaScript long tasks frustrating users?

Speed Curve

When it comes to long JavaScript tasks, how long is too long? The general consensus within the web performance community is that any JS scripting task that takes more than 50ms to execute can affect a user's experience. When the browser's main thread hits max CPU for more than 50ms, a user starts to notice that their clicks are delayed and that scrolling the page has become janky and unresponsive.

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The Great Firewall of China: Obstacles to Monitoring Performance

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The entire country of China’s internet connectivity is shielded by the Great Firewall (GFW). There are three state-owned ISP providers, China Unicom, China Telecom, and China Mobile , that control internet in China. Essentially, all traffic between China and the rest of the world goes through a few national level and a handful of core level access points in different regions.

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Using Real-Time Digital Twins for Aggregate Analytics

ScaleOut Software

Maintain and aggregate dynamic information for. thousands of data sources. When analyzing telemetry from a large population of data sources, such as a fleet of rental cars or IoT devices in “smart cities” deployments, it’s difficult if not impossible for conventional streaming analytics platforms to track the behavior of each individual data source and derive actionable information in real time.

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Usability enhancements in ServicePulse 1.25

Particular Software

One of the challenges in building a distributed software system is that with so many processes doing their own thing, it can be hard to get the bird’s-eye view of what’s going on. Is everything healthy? Is the performance ok? Is there anything going on that could cause a problem? ServicePulse is our application for monitoring your entire distributed system.

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Using Real-Time Digital Twins for Aggregate Analytics

ScaleOut Software

Maintain and aggregate dynamic information for. thousands of data sources. When analyzing telemetry from a large population of data sources, such as a fleet of rental cars or IoT devices in “smart cities” deployments, it’s difficult if not impossible for conventional streaming analytics platforms to track the behavior of each individual data source and derive actionable information in real time.