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Alternatives to Session-Based Test Management and how Xray Exploratory App fits

In our previous articles about exploratory testing, we focused on session-based test management (SBTM), one of the more popular approaches. SBTM aligns clearly with the Xray Exploratory App workflow and terminology. As a quick refresher, SBTM is a more structured technique for performing exploratory testing. The key idea is to organize delimited sessions which are uninterrupted blocks of reviewable, chartered test effort.

Master Kotlin Enums: A Comprehensive Guide

In Kotlin, an enum (short for enumerator) is a special kind of predefined Kotlin data type used to store and represent a fixed set of named constant values, often simply referred to as constants. Each constant is an object, meaning they can have properties and methods, these are enums and are useful for representing elements that are fixed (for example days of the week) and don’t change.

Choosing the Right Test Management Tool for Your Team

Building quality software requires efficient and effective software testing processes. To achieve this, it’s important to make sure your test management tool has the capabilities to support your team’s current, and future, testing needs. By following this three-step approach, you can narrow down your choices and find your perfect fit. Break out your notepad and follow along to see if your team’s needs are best described by options A, B, or C.

API Cost Calculator: How Much Does it Cost to Build an API?

You need to save money, deploy projects faster, and spend more time on developing application experiences that enthrall users. It is practically a certainty that APIs will play a critical role in your software development process, but how much does it cost to build an API? Learn more about DreamFactory’s API cost calculator in this blog article! Here’s the key things to know about our API Cost Calclator: Table of Contents.

Laying the Foundation for Modern Data Architecture

Behind every business decision, there’s underlying data that informs business leaders’ actions. As the market landscape across verticals from financial services to healthcare and manufacturing grows increasingly competitive, those decisions need to happen ever faster and to make them, businesses need to rely on data to reveal insights quickly, as near-real-time as possible.

Data Streaming Awards 2024: Nominations Are Now Open

The Data Streaming Awards is back for its third year! Designed to bring the data streaming community together, this one-of-a-kind industry award event recognizes organizations that are harnessing the power of this revolutionary technology to drive business and customer experience transformation. If you know a company (even your own team) that is using data streaming technology to transform their business and provide amazing value to their customers and communities, the time is now to submit a nomination.

What is a KPI Dashboard? 6 Key Benefits & Best Practice Examples

From business-wide objectives to long-term targets, every organization has specific metrics they need to track. One way to communicate those insights is a KPI dashboard. Key performance indicator (KPI) dashboards are a great way for executives to improve their management of strategic goals, and keep on top of changes, issues and trends in performance at a high-level, with many useful applications when used correctly, alongside other modern analytics tools.

Clean code with PHP namespaces

A widespread issue developers run into when building applications is grouping and organizing code correctly so that it is easier for other developers to understand and collaborate. Conflicting class names, functions, and other code blocks is an issue for developers, and PHP offers a way to tackle this problem by adding namespaces to the language in PHP 5.3. In this article, you will learn everything you need to know to start using namespaces to organize your code efficiently in PHP.

What is OLAP (Online Analytical Processing)?

Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) is a computing technology through which users can extract and query data to analyze it from different points of view. These typically high-speed and complex queries are performed on massive data volumes stored in a data lake, data warehouse, or other large-scale repositories. Typical OLAP applications include business intelligence (BI) and forecasting and reporting.