Simform

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Business logic can be written and tested in many ways to build a substantial software. However, this can turn into a never-ending exercise since you may find yourself going through the same path and around the same starting point.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2022

As patient care continues to evolve, IT teams have accelerated this shift from legacy, on-premises systems to cloud technology to more build, test, and deploy software, and fuel healthcare innovation. IT teams can use the extra time to release new software and work on enhancements to existing systems. “We

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 15, 2020

Understanding, detecting and localizing partial failures in large system software , Lou et al., Before designing a better system for detecting partial failures, the authors set about understanding their nature and causes through a study of five software systems (ZooKeeper, Cassandra, HDFS, Apache, and Mesos). NSDI’20.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2021

HashiCorp’s Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as a code software tool that provides a consistent CLI workflow to manage hundreds of cloud services. It has now become a parallel exercise in the same CLI. We’re excited to announce our verified HashiCorp Terraform integration is now available for Dynatrace customers.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

Yet as software environments become more complex, there are more ways than ever for malicious actors to exploit vulnerabilities, even in the application development and delivery pipeline. Traditionally, application security testing sits as a discrete stage between development and operations.

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Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

To ensure our site performs uniformly across multiple browsers, we perform cross-browser testing. As the name suggests, cross-browser testing is a testing approach that ensures our website/app performs as intended across various devices and browser-OS combinations. It helps us validate the UI of our software.

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Tasktop

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Meet Jason Grodan, a Software Training Specialist at Tasktop! I Also like to spend a little bit of time stretching and doing light exercises, reading or playing with my daughter before I dive into some work. My role at Tasktop is a ‘Software Training Specialist’. How do you start your day before work. years and I love it.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 6, 2022

So, we thought of sharing some tips and tricks with the testing community that is working from home, aiming to improve their working experience overall. This is critical since even if a small detail is missed the results can be catastrophic from a testing perspective. Maintain continuous team collaboration.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 10, 2020

I recently joined two industry veterans and Dynatrace partners, Syed Husain of Orasi and Paul Bruce of Neotys as panelists to discuss how performance engineering and test strategies have evolved as it pertains to customer experience. Dynatrace news. This blog summarizes our great conversation for the posed questions.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

Once you have and understand this data, you can identify issues, find opportunities for improvement, and eliminate risks before you go through a costly migration exercise. Some principles Microsoft provides to help organizations across this area include: Define and test availability targets such as service level agreements (SLAs) and SLOs.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Hosted and moderated by Amazon, AWS GameDay is a hands-on, collaborative, gamified learning exercise for applying AWS services and cloud skills to real-world scenarios. Take a trial test at Linux Academy if it’s applicable to the cert you have in mind. Read any Amazon whitepapers that are relevant to the cert you seek.

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Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The thing is, that Marketing component probably talks to other components itself, which then would have to go through the same migration or duplication exercise (together with the components they talk to). Imagine if any issues arose during testing or ( shudder ) in production, and you had to pinpoint where the problem lay.

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O'Reilly

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This ruling in itself raises many questions: how much creativity is needed, and is that the same kind of creativity that an artist exercises with a paintbrush? If a human writes software to generate prompts that in turn generate an image, is that copyrightable? But even these two cases aren’t as different as they first appear.

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Particular Software

MARCH 28, 2022

Saga scenario testing While we were making it easier to write sagas, we thought it was also essential to make it easier to test them. So the newest version of our testing framework now includes tools to perform saga scenario testing , which are more expressive than testing sagas with standard unit tests.

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HammerDB

JULY 16, 2021

The way we measure this is through a ‘performance profile’ This simply means that we run a series of tests incrementally increasing the system load until we find the peak performance. Plotting these data points enables us to understand the scalability of the database software being tested on that system.

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Tasktop

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

That’s a bit alarming, because the Flow Metrics of several Fortune 100 companies now practicing value stream management (VSM ) in their software portfolios have revealed an acute resource scarcity in QA. Get together once a year for a value stream mapping exercise, and you’ll emerge with a list of potential improvement hypotheses. .

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Retail Metrics Innovation 52

Adrian Cockcroft

MARCH 17, 2020

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a resilient system. Memorial at Hawaiian native burial ground, Kapalua, Maui.

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ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 20, 2020

This blog post explains how a new software construct called a real-time digital twin running in a cloud-hosted service can create a breakthrough for streaming analytics. This exercises the model’s code and surfaces issues and exceptions, which can be readily examined and resolved in a controlled environment.

Cloud 52

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Tasktop

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

That’s a bit alarming, because the Flow Metrics of several Fortune 100 companies now practicing value stream management (VSM ) in their software portfolios have revealed an acute resource scarcity in QA. Get together once a year for a value stream mapping exercise, and you’ll emerge with a list of potential improvement hypotheses. .

Healthcare 40

Healthcare Retail Metrics Innovation 40

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Among the different components of modern software solutions, the database is one of the most critical. Instead, focus on understanding what the workloads exercise to help us determine how to best use them to aid our performance assessment. This suggested that sysbench is a better candidate for testing storage and network performance.

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ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 20, 2020

This blog post explains how a new software construct called a real-time digital twin running in a cloud-hosted service can create a breakthrough for streaming analytics. This exercises the model’s code and surfaces issues and exceptions, which can be readily examined and resolved in a controlled environment.

Cloud 52

Cloud Development Analytics Azure 52

Testsigma

MARCH 6, 2020

Regression testing comprises re-running the test cases of already stable features and finding out if the new code changes attributed to the new release led to any negative impacts on the existing functionalities. When is Regression Testing done? Regression tests should be performed just after the sanity testing is complete.

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Particular Software

DECEMBER 9, 2019

You create a new server with the same software and add it to the load balancer. Decommissioning Public102 was an exercise in the mundane, gradually transitioning tiny service after tiny service to new homes over the course of weeks, as the development schedule allowed. Ultimately, this comes down to testing.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 22, 2021

Exercise/outdoors. With tools like Trafft that have meeting scheduling software capabilities, we can easily set up our calendars to allow clients to book time with you directly. One of my favorite features that is often missing in many appointment form software is the option to customize the order of the form. Cooking/Eating.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. In the same way that we have moved from a few big software releases a year to continuous delivery of many small changes, we need to move from annual disaster recover tests or suffering when things actually break, to continuously tested resilience.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. In the same way that we have moved from a few big software releases a year to continuous delivery of many small changes, we need to move from annual disaster recover tests or suffering when things actually break, to continuously tested resilience.

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Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 23, 2020

The process tracing exercise included: Examning IRC transcripts from multiple channels. Peer consensus was the primary mechanism used to decide whether to take actions affecting the production systems, and on two occassions changes were pushed through without waiting for automated tests to complete. " – wikipedia.

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The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2021

Software ain’t cheap to buy, implement and live with. A value-generative investment is an exercise in deploying risk capital through IT in the pursuit of extraordinary benefit that yields competitive advantage. This does not describe legacy modernization.

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2021

For people working in roles directly related to creation and evolution of a software asset - experience designers, developers, QA analysts - this is easy to understand. But the key characteristic is both the ability and willingness to immerse and comprehend the details of the stories, the architecture, the code, the design, the tests.

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Brendan Gregg

JUNE 30, 2018

sounds like a homework exercise of purely academic value. This is a sanity test. If you test data transfers of a known size, and show their rate, you can do a simple sum to see the minimum throughput required, then compare that to network links. ### 3. If the benchmark reported 20k ops/sec, you should ask: why not 40k ops/sec?

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Brendan Gregg

JUNE 29, 2018

sounds like a homework exercise of purely academic value. This is a sanity test. If you test data transfers of a known size, and show their rate, you can do a simple sum to see the minimum throughput required, then compare that to network links. ### 3. If the benchmark reported 20k ops/sec, you should ask: why not 40k ops/sec?

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Sutter's Mill

JUNE 3, 2021

its results if call sites call it in a way that violates the precondition the assertion is testing. This is an example of “defense in depth,” and can be a useful technique for writing robust software. Violating the assertion does not result in undefined behavior directly. The function just doesn’t specify (ahem!)

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HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

If you change something and re-run the same test the difference in the results can be attributed to the changes you made. Consequently over time you have a reference point “set in stone” from which future changes can be measured by running the same test. Scalability. can you be sure that it scales?

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Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

The ‘controlled’ part is important here because given the scale and complexity of the environment under test, the only meaningful place to do this is in production with real users. a bug fix, configuration change, new feature, or A/B test). Netflix’s system is deployed on the public cloud as complex set of interacting microservices.

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2020

I've worked with quite a few companies for which long-lived software assets remain critical to day-to-day operations, ranging from 20-year-old ERP systems to custom software products that first processed a transaction way back in the 1960s. Several things stand out about these initiatives.

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O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

Software today is not typically a single program—something that is executed by an operator or user, producing a result to that person—but rather a service : something that runs for the benefit of its consumers, a provider of value. Build a more scalable, composable, and functional architecture for interconnecting systems and applications.

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Transportation Java Programming Architecture 72

The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

Testing and grading their solutions is another! Although we added tests to catch specific issues as we learned of them, we found it difficult to keep up with the diversity of possible student errors. Testing and model checking. It’s hard to exhaustively test a distributed system with traditional testing techniques.

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