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5 Best Techniques for Automated Testing

DZone

New technologies and techniques are shaping the future at the same pace. The fast technological advancements in the software development and software testing industry strike the testers to improve their skills analytically. As per Gartner , Multi experience is going to be the app development upcoming future. Companies are now determined on releasing their products on multiple series of gadgets counting augmented reality (AR), AI, and wearables, thus allowing the users to experience the products

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Seamlessly Swapping the API backend of the Netflix Android app

The Netflix TechBlog

How we migrated our Android endpoints out of a monolith into a new microservice by Rohan Dhruva , Ed Ballot As Android developers, we usually have the luxury of treating our backends as magic boxes running in the cloud, faithfully returning us JSON. At Netflix, we have adopted the Backend for Frontend (BFF) pattern : instead of having one general purpose “backend API”, we have one backend per client (Android/iOS/TV/web).

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Dynatrace continues to grow and opens new development Lab in Vienna

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Founded in Linz, Austria, Dynatrace now has more than 50 offices around the world and is continuing to grow. With this growth, a new global R&D headquarters was opened in Linz in late 2019. Now the company expansion continues as Dynatrace opens another Software Development Lab in Vienna. By December this year, an office for up to 120 software developers will be built covering approximately 1,800 square meters in a central Vienna location.

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Node.js vs Django: Key differences, popularity, use cases and more

Simform

Web applications have become an essential part of every business today. Everybody looking to build a web application wants a fantastic framework to work with. Node.js vs Django is a common confusion when you think about choosing a high performing and scalable technology for web development. In this blog, we will give you a detailed comparison of Node.js and Django.

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Most Practical Selenium WebDriver Tutorial With Examples

DZone

Selenium is one of the most widely used automation frameworks for web-application testing. It automates browser testing and eases redundant test efforts for the QA Community. Most of the organizations are switching to using Selenium to automate their test suites which are often run regularly. Selenium WebDriver is a pivotal component of the Selenium suite.

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Exploring AG dashboards for monitoring SQL Server Always On Availability Groups

SQL Shack

In this 21st article on SQL Server Always On Availability Group series, we will explore the AG dashboard and its various options for monitoring purposes. Introduction Monitoring is an essential and critical aspect of database professionals. You can identify potential issues, rectify them proactively. As you configure SQL Server Always On Availability Group for the […].

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Living legend Steve Wozniak announced as Dynatrace Go Keynote.

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. This could be the world’s shortest blog post, because really what else is there to say? Steve Wozniak is the keynote. A living legend, Steve will be joining Dynatrace CMO Mike Maciag for a fireside chat on all things innovation, AI, creativity, and whatever else comes into this genius’s thoughts. What an awesome opportunity to hear from a living legend.

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Top 10 Mobile Performance Testing Tools in 2020

DZone

According to App Annie , in 2019, consumers averaged 3 hours and 40 minutes per day on mobile (up 35% from 2017), highlighting the fact that companies from all industries stand to benefit from putting mobile at the center of their digital transformation strategy. The shift from desktop to mobile started long ago, but COVID-19 has only accelerated it.

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Switch Between Scenes in a Phaser Game

The Polyglot Developer

When you’re building a game, you’re probably going to have more than one screen. For example, you might have an initial menu screen, a main gameplay screen, and a game over screen. These screens can be thought of as scenes in a game, the same way you can think of scenes in film. Every scene that you have in your game represents a clean slate, or a fresh starting point for that particular subsection of content.

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Frictionless retail: A pandemic imperative for IT

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. For most who work in the retail sector, the pandemic has been an unwelcome test of our ability to cope with disruption. Shops closed, shifting apparel and home goods shopping to online marketplaces. Dining out became eating in; restaurants pivoted to takeout and delivery while interest in subscription meal kits spiked. Overnight, grocery shopping became an online sport supported by new pickup and delivery options.

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Deploy MSDTC for distributed transactions in SQL Server Always On Availability Groups

SQL Shack

In this 19th article for SQL Server Always On Availability Groups, we configure MSDTC for distributed transactions in an availability group. Introduction In the article, Explore Cross-database MSDTC for distributed transactions in SQL Server Always On Availability Groups, we understood the following concepts: What is Microsoft distributed transaction coordinator and purpose of it in distributed […].

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Why Selenium Grid Is Ideal For Automated Browser Testing?

DZone

Manual cross-browser testing is neither efficient nor scalable as it will take ages to test on all permutations and combinations of browsers, operating systems, and their versions. Like every developer, I have also gone through that ‘I can do it all phase’. But if you are stuck validating your code changes over hundreds of browsers and OS combinations then your release window is going to look even shorter than it already is.

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What is WordPress Widget?

Tutorials Glitz

WordPress widget is like a content block, it is useful to place the content, where we need it in the WordPress site page. For example, if you would like to add the content on the page sidebar, you can add the widget to display the content. Most of the WordPress theme supports the Widget place holder, by using this you can easily build your home page more beautiful.

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Google Summer of Code Refactor PMM Framework Project with Percona

Percona Community

I am Meet Patel, 2nd year undergraduate at DAIICT, Gandhinagar, India; pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Information and Communication Technology with a minor in Computational Science. I am proud to be selected for the Google Summer of Code program under an open source organization as big and impactful as Percona. As we head towards the end of this amazing program, I’ll try to share a general overview of what and how all of it has been implemented.

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Restore an existing availability group database participating in SQL Server Always On Availability Groups

SQL Shack

In this 20th article for the SQL Server Always On Availability Group series, we will cover the steps to restore an existing availability group database. Requirement Suppose we have multiple database environments for a critical application. These environments can be development, stage, UAT (user acceptance testing). You might have configured the development database also in […].

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E2E Test — Use Probe Attribute As Element Locator

DZone

If you have experiences to create an E2E test project on a web application, you should be familiar with codes like this. JavaScript. xxxxxxxxxx. 1. 1. // Manipulate browser to enter text to an input box. 2. const fooInput = await getElement ( '.fooInput' ); 3. fooInput. type ( "user.name@email.com" ); 4. 5. // Manipulate browser to click the submit button. 6. const fooButton = await getElement ( 'button[type=sybmit]' ); 7. fooButton. click (); 8. 9. // Then verify what is happening after

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How to Create WordPress Menu?

Tutorials Glitz

The website menu is most important for all websites, this is helps to navigate the one page to another page. Also, if you would like to move the particular page on the website, the menu is most important. WordPress Menus helps to navigate the Page or Post categories. Create Menu. We must define a menu before we can add the menu items. Login to the WordPress Dashboard.

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Performance Testing with Open Source Tools – Myths and Reality

Alex Podelko

Some time ago Federico Toledo published Performance Testing with Open Source Tools- Busting The Myths. While Federico definitely has good points there, there is some truth in these myths too. Otherwise we wouldn’t see so many commercial tools built on the top of open source including BlazeMeter (it is ironic that the article is posted on the BlazeMeter site), Flood, and OctoPerf.

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Mastering chaos engineering experiments with Gremlin and Dynatrace

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Very often, I heard that chaos engineering is only a technique used by larger companies (like Netflix) or in cloud native environments. Last week, I watched the Mastering Chaos Engineering Performance Clinic from my colleague Andi Grabner and Ana Margarita Medina, Chaos Engineer from Gremlin which could have totally changed this opinion of the watchers.

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How to Do API Testing?

DZone

Nowadays API testing is an integral part of testing. There are a lot of tools like postman, insomnia, etc. There are many articles that ask what is API, What is API testing, but the problem is How to do API testing? What I need to validate. Note: In this article, I am going to use postman assertions for all the examples since it is the most popular tool.

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Fundamentals of table expressions, Part 6 – Recursive CTEs

SQL Performance

This article is the sixth part in a series about table expressions. Last month in Part 5 I covered the logical treatment of nonrecursive CTEs. This month I cover the logical treatment of recursive CTEs. I describe T-SQL’s support for recursive CTEs, as well as standard elements that are not yet supported by T-SQL. I do provide logically equivalent T-SQL workarounds for the unsupported elements.

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An Introduction To Running Lighthouse Programmatically

Smashing Magazine

An Introduction To Running Lighthouse Programmatically. An Introduction To Running Lighthouse Programmatically. Katy Bowman. 2020-09-11T08:30:00+00:00. 2020-09-11T12:09:13+00:00. Lighthouse is Google’s suite of website quality analysis tools. It allows you to assess your site’s performance, accessibility, SEO, and more. It is also highly configurable, making it flexible enough to be useful for all sites, from the simplest to the highly complex.

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My plans at CppCon

Sutter's Mill

It’s hard to believe CppCon 2020 is nearly here… in fact, pre-conference tutorials are already in progress. I’ll be at the conference throughout the week in the hallways and session rooms. Here are some of the times I’ll be participating on the actual program: Sunday 1300 MDT: Organizer’s Panel. In the middle of the Welcome Reception , we’re holding an Organizer’s Panel where several of us organizers will be talking about what to expect in the week ahead

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How To Install TestNG In Eclipse: Step By Step Guide

DZone

As you already know, TestNG or Test Next Generation is one of the most frequently used automation testing frameworks in Java. Inspired by JUnit and NUnit, Cedric Beust created TestNG with the idea of covering almost all types of testing models, be it functional or end-to-end. The annotations, functionalities, usability, features, and ease-of-use make TestNG a very popular choice of framework.

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Using Feature Flags During Incident Management

DZone

Whether you call it an Incident, outage, surprise, or unplanned work, your application isn't working as expected, and you need to deal with the problem. Your aim during incident resolution is to minimize the impact and get services restored as quickly as possible. I am defining an incident as unplanned service interruption or reduction in quality.

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How Do I Build A Culture of Quality Excellence?

DZone

How Do You Build A Culture of Quality Excellence? Greg Sypolt , VP of Quality Assurance at EverFi , led an hour-long webinar for Applitools titled " Building A Culture of Quality Excellence — Understanding the Quality Maturity Rubric." Let's review his key points and his core slides.

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Test Driven Development Using TestNG, Gradle

DZone

What Is TDD? Test Driven Development is a process where developers write the test case first and then run the test case to fail. Then, they gradually write the minimum corresponding code needed to successfully execute the test cases and then finally refactors the new code to acceptable standards. Just to summarize the following is the sequence of steps in TDD approach.