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Site-Speed Topography

CSS Wizardry

When first working on a new site-speed engagement, you need to work out quickly where the slowdowns, blindspots, and inefficiencies lie. I want to be able to form hypotheses and draw conclusions without viewing a single URL or a line of source code. Now, let’s move on to gaps between First Contentful Paint and Speed Index.

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Automating DevOps practices fuels speed and quality

Dynatrace

Still, while DevOps practices enable developer agility and speed as well as better code quality, they can also introduce complexity and data silos. More seamless handoffs between tasks in the toolchain can improve DevOps efficiency, software development innovation, and better code quality. They need automated DevOps practices.

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4 Software QA Metrics To Enhance Dev Quality and Speed

DZone

Lines of code govern almost everything we do in our day-to-day activities. In an attempt to hold their place within the market, developers are having to speed their process up whilst delivering products of ever-increasing quality. Often speed and quality seem at odds with one another, but in reality, this isn’t the case.

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Speeding Up Async Snippets

CSS Wizardry

There’s no async attribute in sight, and the code itself isn’t doing anything special: it’s just injecting a script that resolves to a regular, blocking tag in the DOM: How is this any different to just loading the file normally? There are a couple of times when we can’t avoid async snippets, and therefore can’t really speed them up.

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Legacy Code Refactoring: Tips, Steps, and Best Practices

DZone

Nobody loves to work on legacy code because it can be a confusing endeavor; at best, it’s time-consuming. But do we now live with the huge repercussions and costs of retaining and utilizing legacy codes as they are?

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C# Coding Convention: Coding Standard in C#

DZone

Coding conventions are a set of guidelines for writing code that is consistent, readable, and comprehensible. They are also sometimes called programming conventions, style guides, or coding standard. These conventions cover various aspects of the code, such as naming conventions, indentation, commenting, and formatting.

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Low Code Platforms for Test Automation: A Benchmark

DZone

Considering the trend toward low code solutions for test automation at the UI level, we wanted to run some experiments comparing the execution time of some of the most popular options. That also applies to end-to-end automated tests.