Sat.Dec 18, 2021 - Fri.Dec 24, 2021

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Fighting Fragility With Property-Based Testing

DZone

However long you work in software, you always feel late to the party. You encounter some seemingly cutting-edge new tool only to learn it has been around for decades, sometimes inspired by research papers from 1970. Still, you can’t keep up with everything and have a life. Property-based testing (PBT) is such an established technology and it deserves more attention.

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What is session replay? Discover user pain points with session recordings

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Understanding what your users are experiencing as they interact with your online services can have a profound effect on conversion rates and revenue. Using session recording tools, organizations can replay a user’s session to gain insight into their experiences. But what is session replay? And why isn’t statistical analysis enough?

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Useful UX Guidelines, Tools And Resources

Smashing Magazine

Useful UX Guidelines, Tools And Resources. Useful UX Guidelines, Tools And Resources. Cosima Mielke. 2021-12-22T10:00:00+00:00. 2021-12-22T16:34:55+00:00. What does it take to create meaningful user experiences? While there’s no one secret recipe for success, there are some fundamentals that you can consider to master the challenge. In this post, we compiled useful tools, tips, and resources that are bound to help you build better user experiences.

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Tasktop’s Recharge Day Fills Everyone’s Tanks

Tasktop

Tasktop’s third Recharge Day of 2021 allowed our teams to take time to rest, relax, get active or simply do the things they love outside of work. In addition to this time to “fill our tanks”, Tasktop lives it’s value of caring for each other’s growth and happiness with a generous annual fitness benefit, paid volunteer time, parental leave top-up and other perks that help Tasktopians manage energy and prioritize health. .

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Few Warning Signs Your Company Needs QA Consulting Services

DZone

In a software testing world, the competition is too high to handle and when we talk about the significance of QA there is no room for error. The worldwide automation test market is likely to raise from $12.6 back in 2019 to USD28.8 billion by 2024.Delivering superior quality software is the top-most priority of any business. It is prudent to pay attention to software development and testing before it reaches the marketplace.

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Log4Shell vulnerability discovery and mitigation require automatic and intelligent observability

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Since the Log4j vulnerability CVE-2021-44228 —or Log4Shell—emerged in early December, security teams have faced great pressure to identify and remediate it. Log4Shell is a software vulnerability in Apache Log4j 2 , a popular Java library for logging error messages in applications. The vulnerability enables a remote attacker to take control of a device on the internet if the device runs certain versions of Log4j 2.

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Creating A Custom Range Input That Looks Consistent Across All Browsers

Smashing Magazine

Creating A Custom Range Input That Looks Consistent Across All Browsers. Creating A Custom Range Input That Looks Consistent Across All Browsers. Alyssa Holland. 2021-12-23T11:00:00+00:00. 2021-12-23T14:06:08+00:00. As one of the maintainers of a UI component library, I’ve implemented and styled myriads of input elements. One day I was assigned the task of adding a range input to the library and, I figured it would be a similar process to the other inputs I had implemented in the past.

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Fixing a SOLR Memory Leak

DZone

In this blog, we are going to learn about memory leaks occurring in SOLR QueryResultCache, how the RCA was carried out, and the solution given to resolve the issue. In the application under test, SOLR was used as a component to store, search, and retrieve the contents. SOLR 7.5 was used in this application.

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Observability platform vs. observability tools

Dynatrace

Dynatrace news. Complex information systems fail in unexpected ways. That’s why IT teams need both observability tools and an observability platform. To understand the distinction between observability tools and an observability platform, let’s start by defining observability. What is observability? Observability gives developers and system operators real-time awareness of a highly distributed system’s current state based on the data it generates.

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Percona Supports Community Events - Organize Yours With Us!

Percona Community

One of the things we love doing in Percona is participating in community events and inspiring people to stay connected in the changing world. We have experience in organizing community dinners, meetups, lectures at universities, booths, and even conferences both in-person and virtually. Percona speakers give talks on events all around the globe. Have you ever thought about organizing a themed meeting for your local open source community?

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What to gift your software tester friend if you are the secret Santa?

Testsigma

No matter how old we are, we still love gifts!! When Christmas is around the corner, we can only think of secret Santa and the gifts he brings along. And a thought arises: what would you give your software tester friend as a gift, if you were the secret Santa. Or maybe if you are a tester, you can buy a gift for yourself on Christmas and be your own Santa.

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How to Refactor a Legacy Test Automation Project

DZone

Starting a new project can put you in a situation where you have to decide whether to begin again or try to fix what you have. If all the tests work and are written in a simple, SOLID, and understandable manner, you are lucky — you are lucky!

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2021 in review: It was a big year!

Speed Curve

This is the most important question we ask ourselves regularly here at SpeedCurve: Does this bring happiness? "This" can mean anything from design and features to our own internal processes. We apply this litmus test to everything we do, and I believe it's the secret of our success. It's why we have such an incredible team, such wonderful customers, and such a heartfelt commitment to building tools that make your life easier. and ultimately make your users' lives easier, too!

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PMM development and testing with help of minikube

Percona Community

Why Some time ago I needed to test PG14 with the new pg_stat_monitor version that wasn’t released. I decided to log my journey so I would spend less effort next time to replicate it. I do use podman and run PMM with its help but I also like to hack PMM DBaaS features and think that k8s and minikube are perfect and better scalable solutions for the different development environments and especially for the number of clusters and DBs.

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The Perils of Programming Magic

Professor Beekums

Photo by Artem Maltsev Abstractions are a necessary part of software development. Not having them would make certain things ridiculous. Imagine building an e-commerce store for books and writing code for each title instead of just having code for the concept of “book” and reusing it for all titles. The very concept of a “user” in any application is also an abstraction.

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Understanding Black Box Testing - Types, Techniques, and Examples

DZone

Introduction. What comes to your mind when you hear the term Black box, specifically concerning testing? Well, it is something that is not very common to listen to but remains an essential form of software testing. It is a software testing technique to examine the functioning of software from an external outlook without digging deeper into its code.

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Improving Core Web Vitals, A Smashing Magazine Case Study

Smashing Magazine

Improving Core Web Vitals, A Smashing Magazine Case Study. Improving Core Web Vitals, A Smashing Magazine Case Study. Barry Pollard. 2021-12-20T05:30:00+00:00. 2021-12-20T09:34:43+00:00. “Why are my Core Web Vitals failing?” Many developers have been asking themselves that question lately. Sometimes it’s easy enough to find the answer to that question and the site just needs to invest in performance.

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Links on Performance V

CSS - Tricks

Does shadow DOM improve style performance? — Nolan Lawson covers how, because of the inherent encapsulation of the shadow DOM, the styling gets applied a bit faster than it would if those styling rules were relevant to the entire page. But as ever, it depends, and it turns out that classes and IDs are actually faster outside of it (?!), so if you just style with those, that’s the way to go.