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Cognitive Biases in Software Testing: A Guide To Overcome

We are humans, and humans sometimes make mistakes. We make hundreds of decisions on a daily basis, and sometimes those decisions are not entirely based on rationality, but on cognitive biases. Anyone, including testers, can be subjected to the trappings of cognitive biases. Those biases are the result of years of evolutionary adaptation, and they allow us to make quick judgements (we all want to survive). However, they usually aren't the best judgements.

New in Confluent Cloud: Making Serverless Flink a Developer's Best Friend, Protecting Sensitive Data, and More

The Q3 Cloud Bundle Launch comes to you from Current 2024, where data streaming industry experts have come together to show you why data streaming is critical today, especially in the age of AI, and how it will become even more important in shaping tomorrow’s businesses. This year’s Current event attracted over 2,500 attendees, both in-person and virtual, and featured 140+ learning sessions by industry experts.

Nuances of Quality Engineering for Emerging Technologies

Increasingly digital consumption of products and services, along with the shift to remote work and education, have significantly affected how software is developed and tested. According to Deloitte’s “2023 Quality Engineering Trends” report, “new technologies” is still the top factor driving testing spend.

Using a Mock Server: Understanding Efficient API Testing

API testing is critical to modern software development, ensuring that applications communicate seamlessly and function as expected. However, setting up testing environments that accurately mimic real-world conditions can be complex, time-consuming, and costly. APIs often change, and dependencies on third-party services or backend systems can delay the development process, making it challenging to conduct reliable tests in real-time.

How to use the Throws keyword in Java (and when to use Throw)

Imagine you're a postal worker sorting through a mountain of packages. Some packages are ticking suspiciously, while others are leaking mysterious liquids. As a responsible postal worker, you have two choices: deal with these problematic packages yourself (throw) or slap a big "HANDLE WITH CARE" sticker on them and pass them along to the next person in line (throws). Think of throw as actually creating an error in your program. You use it when something goes wrong and you want to stop the program.

Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Management: 4 benefits of improving logistics

From sourcing raw materials to delivering finished goods, the pharmaceutical supply chain involves many complex steps, each of which must be carefully managed to maintain product safety and compliance with strict regulations. Improving logistics processes helps ensure speed and quality across the supply chain, leading to better outcomes for both the industry and patients alike.

New Dashboard: Build, Run, and Scale Apps in Minutes with a Simple and Elegant Interface

Welcome to the first day of launch week #2! Today, we are excited to introduce our brand new control panel! Our mission at Koyeb is to offer the fastest way to deploy applications globally while delivering an exceptional developer experience. Over the past few months, we totally reimagined how to deliver a simple, reactive, and intuitive experience to deploy, manage, and scale projects to production.

Digital Transformation in Healthcare: Bane or a Boon?

What exactly comes to your mind when we say ‘Digital Advancements’? What’s the first thing you think of when you hear the word? Is it cloud technology? Digital transformation? Gen-AI? Blockchain? Or everything that caters to Digital Transformation as a whole? We know that the last sentence is the one you’ll prefer. But has it ever come across your mind why digital transformation solutions are taking all the limelight from different industries?

A guide to Laravel pipelines

When building web applications, it's handy to break down a feature's complex processes into smaller, more manageable pieces, whether by using separate functions or classes. Doing this helps to keep the code clean, maintainable, and testable. An approach you can take to split out these smaller steps in your Laravel application is to use Laravel pipelines. Pipelines allow you to send data through multiple layers of logic before returning a result.

Top Product Observability Tools to Boost Business Efficiency

As software systems grow more complex, ensuring reliable performance and delivering a seamless user experience becomes increasingly challenging. Product teams need the ability to track and analyze system behavior in real-time, allowing them to address issues before they affect users. Product observability offers a proactive approach, enabling teams to gather data, monitor system health, and make informed decisions based on a complete view of both infrastructure and user interactions.