Given the array of ongoing challenges businesses face, including those posed by hybrid work and COVID-19, business automation is more important than ever. In large organizations, many business units have long been using robotic process automation (RPA) to automate simple manual tasks such as copying and pasting data. While RPA can address local needs quickly and easily, it can’t scale to deliver the complete end-to-end automation, also called hyperautomation, that modern companies need.
The benefits of moving your on-prem Spark Hadoop environment to Databricks are undeniable. A recent Forrester Total Economic Impact (TEI) study reveals that deploying Databricks can pay for itself in less than six months, with a 417% ROI from cost savings and increased revenue & productivity over three years. But without the right methodology and tools, such modernization/migration can be a daunting task.
Functional testing is one of the final steps before a software application goes live, and it’s designed to ensure critical user paths are operating correctly. It’s a kind of black box testing that doesn’t evaluate the underlying code of the application, but instead tests whether a specific input leads to an expected output in the user interface (UI).