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S1.E23: Cristiano Cunha on Automation: Secrets of a Solution Architect | QA Therapy Podcast

Special episode alert! We're thrilled to share an exclusive episode featuring one of our hosts, Cristiano Cunha! Cristiano is more than a Solution Architect at Xray. He’s also a passionate enthusiast for software testing and automation. Get ready to hear stories and insights about Cristiano's career experiences. But that's not all - get ready for a round of rapid-fire questions that promise to bring out some laughs.

S1.E22: Automating builds with Jenkins | QA Therapy Podcast

Are you facing frequent challenges in your build and deployment processes? Enter Jenkins - an invaluable tool for automating various tasks such as compiling, testing, packaging, and deploying software. Today, our guest is Kohsuke Kawaguchi, the visionary creator of Jenkins. We’re gonna delve into the capabilities of Jenkins and its role in modern software development.

Software Testing Life Cycle: A Definitive Guide

The Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) is your roadmap to delivering high-quality, bug-free software. Imagine it as a journey that guides software testers through every crucial step needed to transform a product from concept to perfection. Each phase plays a unique role—whether it's catching bugs, enhancing functionality, or ensuring the final product meets business needs. Every stage works in harmony to guarantee the software is ready for the real world. Ready to dive in?

Decision Table Testing: A Complete Guide

Testing software, especially complex systems, can be a daunting task. But what if there was a way to systematically test every possible input combination without getting overwhelmed? That’s where Decision Table Testing comes in! As a black-box testing technique, Decision Table Testing helps testers map various combinations of inputs (conditions) to their corresponding outputs (actions), ensuring comprehensive test coverage without redundancy.

Empowering Biotech Innovation with Seamless Functional and Usability Testing: A Success Story

In the biotech industry, where precision, compliance, and user experience are critical, even minor technical glitches can have significant consequences. A leading biotech company specializing in rare diseases faced this very challenge when updating its web-based Request Management System (RMS). The RMS is crucial for managing requests, ensuring compliance with industry regulations, and providing users with a seamless experience.

Preparing the Consumer Fetch: Kafka Producer and Consumer Internals, Part 3

Welcome back to the third installment of our blog series where we’re diving into the beautiful black box that is Apache Kafka to better understand how we interact with the cluster through producer and consumer clients. Earlier in the series, we took a look at the Kafka producer to see how the client works before following a produce request as it’s processed by the cluster.

Introducing pipe syntax in BigQuery and Cloud Logging

Writing complex SQL queries can be challenging, but BigQuery's new pipe syntax offers a more intuitive way to structure your code. Learn how pipe syntax simplifies both exploratory analysis and complex log analytics tasks, helping you gain insights faster. Watch along and discover how to leverage pipe syntax in BigQuery for a more efficient analytics experience. Chapters: Speaker: Jeff Nelson Products Mentioned: Cloud - Data Analytics - BigQuery.

Essential Free API Testing Tools Every Developer Should Know

API testing is an essential aspect of contemporary software development, ensuring that the interfaces between various components and systems function correctly. In this blog post, we will dive into some of the top free API testing tools that every developer should know about! From basic HTTP clients to comprehensive testing suites, these tools cover a wide range of needs and skill levels, helping developers create more robust and reliable applications. Get ready to supercharge your development process!

insightsoftware EPM

CFOs face the continual challenge of making sense of ever-increasing volumes of complex financial data. Enterprise performance management software, commonly known as EPM, is the solution. Traditionally, CFOs have faced a tough choice: an all-in-one EPM solution with limited functionality, or a best-of-breed approach that's complex to integrate. insightsoftware EPM offers the best of both worlds. The insightsoftware Platform supports comprehensive connected applications for planning, closing, disclosing, and analyzing, all working from the same consistent view of data.

A Comprehensive Guide to Test-Driven Development in Software Engineering

I often wonder about Steve Wozniak’s claim that the first computers were built to help “common people rise.” Correlating the evolution of software with the upheaval of our human society brings a very hopeful sentiment. Now, software engineering methodologies cater to more nuanced requirements of our “rising,” such as allowing space to correct mistakes (agility) and openness to feedback (adaptability).