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Web Quality Assurance: From User Requirements To Web Risk Management

Smashing Magazine

” Quality assurance (QA) is defined as: “A program for the systematic monitoring and evaluation of the various aspects of a project, service, or facility to ensure that standards of quality are being met.” — “ Quality assurance ,” Merriam-Webster. VPTCS model © Élie Sloïm — Éric Gateau — 2001 — www.opquast.com.

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MICRO 2019 Trip Report

ACM Sigarch

The technical program, put together by program chairs Tor Aamodt and Reetuparna Das , showcased key innovations across a wide range of computer architecture topics, from domain-specific accelerators to in/near-memory computing and from security to quantum computing. . This year’s MICRO had three inspiring keynote talks. Conference.

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

In the 2000s we had a showdown of two popular blog publishing platforms — MovableType in 2001 and WordPress in 2003. Nanoc removed the UI and is instead a program you run on the command line. Status checks are small programs to lint, run tests, or anything else you’d like to measure. Online, and live.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

A/B testing and panel surveys are used in such cases to get additional data points that improve the precision of the model. Customer retention programs can require the identification of customers who are likely to stop the relationship with a retailer but can change their minds under the influence of incentives. Problem Statement.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I still code in R… One role I had for many years was to lead technical training events for the global specialist systems engineers, which we called the Ambassador Program. I was looking for a new challenge, so joined the program and ended up getting certified as a “black belt”. Rich Pettit is one of the best programmers I ever met.

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Netflix: A Culture of Learning

The Netflix TechBlog

Earlier posts covered the basics of A/B tests ( Part 1 and Part 2 ), core statistical concepts ( Part 3 and Part 4 ), how to build confidence in a decision ( Part 5 ), and the the role of Experimentation and A/B testing within the larger Data Science and Engineering organization at Netflix ( Part 6 ).

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