Automation testing tools are applications designed to verify function and/or non-functional requirements via automated test scripts. With the Agile and DevOps manifesto as the standard of software testing, setting a clear-cut automation testing tools evaluation strategy is key. Ultimately, this strategy will need to answer the questions of: Plus, there isn’t really a one-size-fits-all automation tool. It really boils down to your team’s specific needs.

This is a recap article with all the answers to the questions I received during my previous talks at Droidcon, WeAreDevelopers, and more.

​​ Recently AWS made the new ARM processors for Lambda functions generally available. With that change Serverless functions now use Graviton2, said to offer better performance at lower cost. I built a sample API on AWS using API Gateway and Lambda, and I wrote two endpoints, one CPU-intensive (calculating Pi using Leibniz's formula), the other a typical data transfer endpoint (returning an arbitrary number of bytes). Two very different endpoints for my experiment.

George Ukkuru is a seasoned technocrat and AVP of quality engineering, DevOps, and SRE @Marlabs Inc. Over the course of two decades, he has helped Fortune 500 companies implement Agile testing practices. He has also authored a number of books on quality engineering and test automation. In this QnA, Ukkuru lays out the scope and depth of his experience without even trying.

Free open-source frameworks, libraries, and tools are the go-to solutions for automation testing. The main difference between these is knowing your preference between creating your building a brand new test automation framework using libraries, or working on a made-ready tool where testing is all you will have to care about. This article gives you a quick glance at the Top 10 Free and Open Source Testing Tools, Tools, Framework & Libraries.

After you’ve built your microservices-backed application, it’s time to deploy and connect them. Luckily, there are many cloud providers to choose from, and you can even mix and match. Many organizations, like Australia Post, are taking the mix-and-match approach, embracing a multi-cloud architecture. The microservices that make up a system no longer have to stay on a single cloud.

As a small business or a startup, we often make decisions that can change the whole structure of our working processes. Honestly, this is not a bane that can bring the businesses down. Such businesses thrive on these decisions as they let them clearly decide what suits them best and why. What’s better than finding it on their own by trying a mix of things? As for this post, it is a bit different from startups and small businesses.

The word “data” is ubiquitous in narratives of the modern world. And data, the thing itself, is vital to the functioning of that world. This blog discusses quantifications, types, and implications of data. If you’ve ever wondered how much data there is in the world, what types there are and what that means for AI and businesses, then keep reading!

And 9 other mobile development and process questions answered from our Building Mobile Apps At Scale webinar with Gergely Orosz, Pooja Bhaumik, and Franz Busch.