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A Complete Guide To User Interface Testing

DZone

The user interface, or UI for short, is the aspect of an app or website that users interact with naturally. Since the UI is the part that is most commonly used, it leaves a lasting impression on users that can either be positive or negative. The design of the user interface and it's functionality are what can make or break programs. That’s why UI testing has become integral in the world of software and web development.

Testing 279
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Data Movement in Netflix Studio via Data Mesh

The Netflix TechBlog

By Andrew Nguonly , Armando Magalhães , Obi-Ike Nwoke , Shervin Afshar , Sreyashi Das , Tongliang Liu , Wei Liu , Yucheng Zeng Background Over the next few years, most content on Netflix will come from Netflix’s own Studio. From the moment a Netflix film or series is pitched and long before it becomes available on Netflix, it goes through many phases.

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Dynatrace extends contextual analytics and AIOps for open observability

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Today’s digital businesses run on heterogeneous and highly dynamic architectures with interconnected applications and microservices deployed via Kubernetes and other cloud-native platforms. The complexity of such deployments has accelerated with the adoption of emerging, open-source technologies that generate telemetry data, which is exploding in terms of volume, speed, and cardinality.

Analytics 246
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Heuristics for Effective Software Development: A continuously evolving list.*

Allen Holub

Without psychological safety, respect, and trust, none of the following is possible. Process exists in service of people; the people come first. The best ways to work are collaborative. Negotiation is not collaboration. Isolated individuals making heroic efforts are never as effective as collaborative groups. We get the best results when customers, business people, and… The post Heuristics for Effective Software Development: A continuously evolving list.* appeared first on Allen Holub.

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The MTTR That Matters

DZone

“Mean time to X” is a common term used to describe how long, on average, a particular milestone takes to achieve in incident response. There’s mean time to detect, acknowledge, mitigate, etc. And then there’s the elusive “mean time to recover,” also known as “MTTR.”. MTTR, a hotly debated acronym and concept, measures how long it takes to resolve an incident on average.

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There Is No Such Thing As A CSS Absolute Unit

Smashing Magazine

There Is No Such Thing As A CSS Absolute Unit. There Is No Such Thing As A CSS Absolute Unit. Elad Shechter. 2021-07-29T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-07-29T15:09:07+00:00. When we start learning CSS, we find that CSS units of measurement are categorized as relative or absolute. Absolute units are rooted in physical units, such as pixels, centimeters, and inches.

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Dynatrace Managed release notes version 1.222

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. New features and enhancements. General. The Dynatrace menu has a totally new design. Read more about it in the new Dynatrace menu page. Using filter in the new menu, you can find pages faster. You can use old Dynatrace names in the filter and Dynatrace will show you the result with corresponding new names. You can then add them to your favorites.

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A Complete Guide to Usability Testing

DZone

The aesthetics and design of a software product are two very important aspects. How well a program looks often translates to how well it works. There are many applications today that, once launched, fail due to being unstable, not user-friendly, and generally difficult to use overall. Usability testing identifies these issues early on in the software development cycle and can help a product from being a failure.

Testing 246
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How To Build An E-Commerce Site With Angular 11, Commerce Layer And Paypal

Smashing Magazine

How To Build An E-Commerce Site With Angular 11, Commerce Layer And Paypal. How To Build An E-Commerce Site With Angular 11, Commerce Layer And Paypal. Zara Cooper. 2021-07-30T11:00:00+00:00. 2021-07-30T14:34:27+00:00. Nowadays it’s essential to have an online presence when running a business. A lot more shopping is done online than in previous years.

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Achieve faster time to value by deploying thousands of OneAgents at once with Puppet (Preview)

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. The ability to deploy many OneAgent instances simultaneously in a fast and reliable way using industry-standard solutions just got significantly easier with the Preview of the new Dynatrace Puppet module. Why large-scale rollout of OneAgent is important. Why would any organization need to deploy hundreds or even thousands of OneAgent instances in a single action?

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A deep dive into SQL Table Variables

SQL Shack

In this article, we will explore some secrets about SQL Table Variables. Introduction Table variables are special variable types and they are used to temporarily hold data in SQL Server. Working with the table variables are much easier and can show remarkable performance when working with relatively small data sets. In spite of that, they […].

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Testing Fragmentation and the Need for Cross-Browser Compatibility Testing

DZone

Introduction. In the last few decades, the internet has seen tremendous growth; internet users are increasing each day, which has increased the demand for websites. Every stunning website has the support of rigorous testing behind it. But, testing different web applications is not as easy as it may sound. Things that work perfectly fine in one browser might not be fit for the other.

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Gatsby Serverless Functions And The International Space Station

Smashing Magazine

Gatsby Serverless Functions And The International Space Station. Gatsby Serverless Functions And The International Space Station. Paul Scanlon. 2021-07-26T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-07-26T14:03:58+00:00. Gatsby recently announced the launch of Functions which opens up a new dimension of possibilities — and I for one couldn’t be more excited! With Gatsby now providing Serverless Functions on Gatsby Cloud (and Netlify also providing support via @netlify/plugin-gatsby ), the framework that was once

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How to automate Canary Release decisions with Dynatrace

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Progressive Delivery enables speeding up while managing the risk of software deployments and configuration changes. One of the aspects of progressive delivery is using new zero-downtime deployment strategies such as Canary, Blue-Green, or Feature Flags. Those strategies allow development teams to decouple the tasks of deployment (rolling out a new binary to production) from releasing (making it accessible by your end-users).

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How to Re-evaluate Your Frontend Architecture and Improve its Design?

Simform

Frontend architecture comprises a bunch of practices and tools that upgrades your application’s code quality. What’s more, it also presents you with the opportunity to create a productive, scalable, and sustainable workflow. The post How to Re-evaluate Your Frontend Architecture and Improve its Design? appeared first on Insights on Latest Technologies - Simform Blog.

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Learnings From a WebPageTest Session on CSS-Tricks

CSS - Tricks

I got together with Tim Kadlec from over at WebPageTest the other day to use do a bit of performance testing on CSS-Tricks. Essentially use the tool, poke around, and identify performance pain points to work on. You can watch the video right here on the site, or over on their Twitch channel , which is worth a subscribe for more performance investigations like these.

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Global vs. Local Styling In Next.js

Smashing Magazine

Global vs. Local Styling In Next.js. Global vs. Local Styling In Next.js. Alexander Dubovoy. 2021-07-27T11:00:00+00:00. 2021-07-27T12:01:59+00:00. I have had a great experience using Next.js to manage complex front-end projects. Next.js is opinionated about how to organize JavaScript code, but it doesn’t have built-in opinions about how to organize CSS.

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Cloud Automation workshop roadshow: Kick-off

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Three years ago, I toured through the US, Europe, and Asia giving hands-on training sessions on what I then called the “Unbreakable Delivery Pipeline Tour”. You may be asking yourself now: “ Unbreakable WHAT??”. “The Unbreakable Delivery Pipeline” automates the delivery and operational tasks to increase the delivery frequency and reduce lead time, while ensuring never releasing breaking changes in production.

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How to Re-evaluate Your Frontend Architecture and Improve its Design?

Simform

Frontend architecture comprises a bunch of practices and tools that upgrades your application’s code quality. What’s more, it also presents you with the opportunity to create a productive, scalable, and sustainable workflow. The post How to Re-evaluate Your Frontend Architecture and Improve its Design? appeared first on Insights on Latest Technologies - Simform Blog.

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The DBCC_OBJECT_METADATA Latch

SQL Performance

Continuing my series of articles on latches, this time I’m going to discuss the DBCC_OBJECT_METADATA latch and show how it can be a major bottleneck for consistency checks prior to SQL Server 2016 under certain circumstances. The issue affects DBCC CHECKDB, DBCC CHECKTABLE, and DBCC CHECKFILEGROUP, but for clarity I’ll just reference DBCC CHECKDB for the rest of this post.

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Creating An Accessible Dialog From Scratch

Smashing Magazine

Creating An Accessible Dialog From Scratch. Creating An Accessible Dialog From Scratch. Kitty Giraudel. 2021-07-28T11:00:00+00:00. 2021-07-28T12:21:15+00:00. First of all, don’t do this at home. Do not write your own dialogs or a library to do so. There are plenty of them out there already that have been tested, audited, used and reused and you should prefer these ones over your own. a11y-dialog is one of them, but there are more (listed at the end of this article).

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Storage handling improvements increase retention of transaction data for Dynatrace Managed

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Dynatrace Managed is the on-premises software intelligence platform that brings Dynatrace SaaS capabilities to your infrastructure while ensuring resilience and optimizing the total cost of ownership. One main advantage of using a product in SaaS mode is the automatic scaling of resources based on system load. In on-premises environments, resource scaling is not always easy and requires time and thorough planning by the administrator.

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Strategic Domain-Driven Design Kata: Delivericious

Strategic Tech

If you would like to learn or practice how to break up a large business into domains and use them as the foundation for your software architecture and team organization, I have created a strategic domain-driven design kata that you may find useful. It’s based on the industry of online takeaway ordering and delivery using a fictitious business called Delivericious.

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Heuristics for Effective Software Development: A continuously evolving list.*

Allen Holub

Without psychological safety, respect, and trust, none of the following is possible. Process exists in service of people; the people come first. The best ways to work are collaborative. Negotiation is not collaboration. Isolated individuals making heroic efforts are never as effective as collaborative groups. We get the best results when customers, business people, and… The post Heuristics for Effective Software Development: A continuously evolving list.* appeared first on Allen Holub.

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Codeless Testing: When is Testsigma recommended tool for you

Testsigma

The software industry is undergoing numerous changes with the growth and advancement in technology and the emergence of Agile and DevOps. Software testing has slowly transitioned from manual testing to record-and-playback testing to automated testing, and now codeless testing is disrupting the software testing approach in the industry. The codeless automated testing involves the execution of automated testing without using any script.

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OneAgent release notes version 1.221

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Rollout starts 26 July 2021. With this release, the oldest supported OneAgent versions are: Dynatrace ONE. Dynatrace ONE Premium. 1.203. 1.197. Deprecated OneAgent startup parameter. Deprecated OneAgent startup parameter name has been removed. Use agentname instead. New binary in Linux installer package. The oneagentmntconstat binary has been added to the OneAgent Linux installer package with all permissions and capabilities required to use it.

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Best automation testing tools for web and mobile

Testsigma

Times have surely changed — we’ve all moved on from TVs to mobile phones and laptops to consume various forms of content. As per Data Reportal , there are over 5.27 billion mobile users globally, and this data also reports that the number of users is increasing by 1.9% per year; the internet users are increasing at an annual growth of 7½%, especially in the developing countries.