Software development practices and methodologies have evolved significantly since the time humans were introduced to an idea of a code. The most critical outcome of this evolutionary journey has been the greater focus on software testing. We are now in the era of DevOps – a methodology that harmonizes each [...]
If you always do what you always did, you’ll always get what you always got. But now doing what we always did will not get us what we always got. Times have changed, demands have changed, and there is a need for changing the ways in which we deal with the problems at hand and even, [...]
As the eBook market has flourished over the years, there is a massive amount of data in stores for retailers and publishers. There was a time when the publishing sector was not powered with such data. Still, digitization of the overall reading experience and marketing has killed all the [...]
Web services provide a standard means of interoperating between software applications on various platforms and frameworks. These services form the basis of a connection technology such that services are connected together into a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Further, services communicate using web services, the most–used connection technology of SOA. Web [...]
Gartner placed Hyperautomation among the top technology trends for this year. We are moving toward a future of everything autonomous and everything fast. To match the pace of this fast-moving ecosystem, software delivery times will have to be accelerated, but not at the cost of quality. As ‘quality at [...]
Selenium is a widely used open source, portable software testing framework for web applications. Though Selenium testing comes with a test domain-specific language (Selenese), other programming languages (Java, C#, Ruby, Python) can also be used to script tests. Tests made in other languages communicate with Selenium via calling methods [...]
Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility. This mantra for enterprise agility has always been publicly available as one of the twelve principles on which the Agile manifesto was defined. The question is, despite it being in existence for almost two decades, why aren’t more enterprises [...]
The dawn of robots brings along the promises of a future with accurate and reliable processes. An Everest Group survey revealed the positive trend toward RPA adoption, given its capability of aligning business strategies with long-term goals. Having almost touched the $700 million mark in 2018, the RPA market [...]
There is no doubt that mechanization has made our lives easier, and our tasks more efficient. The idea of a machine with a human-level cognition has always been fascinating, making it a beloved theme for most science-fictions. Today, that machine is no longer just a fictional object. Instead, it [...]
Per the 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Software Test Automation: “Cloud and digital business demand a shift toward continuous quality. Application leaders must support their teams in integrating and effectively utilizing test automation tools in their DevOps toolchain, to enable continuous delivery.” In an age of feverish go-to-market requirements that [...]
