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June 2024

S1.E5: Test automation uncovered | QA Therapy Podcast

In this episode, we're diving into the realm of test automation ownership, strategy, tooling, and beyond, with our special guest, Toyer Mamoojee, our esteemed QA Therapist. Toyer, a seasoned speaker at testing conferences, is renowned for his expertise in test automation. Did you know that Xray enables you to consolidate results from various testing frameworks into a single, centralized location within Jira? This means your teams can freely select their preferred testing frameworks or tools without sacrificing visibility into the testing process.

Top 14 ETL Tools for June 2024

Organizations of all sizes and industries now have access to ever-increasing amounts of data, far too vast for any human to comprehend. So far in 2023 so far, the world produced and consumed 328.77 million terabytes of data per day — an almost unimaginable number. However, all this information is useless without a way to efficiently process it, analyze it, and reveal the valuable data-driven insights hidden within the noise.

Calculating the Cost of Your Business's Digital Transformation

Digital transformation has the potential to streamline your business processes, lower operational costs, improve customer satisfaction, and contribute to revenue growth. Once you build a digital transformation blueprint and follow the steps, you will have a business positioned for long-term success. Although digital transformation projects can help you save a lot of money in the future, you still have to pay for digital technology that leads to cost savings.

How to Turn Any SOAP Web Service into a REST API

There are two types of remote web services: REST APIs and SOAP APIs If you want to wrap a SOAP API and make it easier to work with through the use of REST endpoints, this simple tutorial will enable you to achieve that goal. With this process, you'll be able to make a request with JSON to the API and receive a response in JSON instead of a long-winded XML format.

Acquisition of Verta's Operational AI Platform Will Transform Cloudera's AI Vision to Reality

In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping enterprises across the globe—be it in healthcare, finance, or manufacturing—it’s hard to overstate the transformation that AI has had on businesses, regardless of industry or size. At Cloudera, we recognize the urgent need for bold steps to harness this potential and dramatically accelerate the time to value for AI applications.

How to Identify and Manage Software Testing Risks

As software releases are expected to happen faster, testers are placed under more pressure. Pressure to find and eradicate bugs earlier in the release cycle, to avoid them being costly and delaying release timelines. That said, if companies want to stay ahead of the competition, it's important from the outset their testing processes are free from risks and vulnerabilities. Can automated testing best ensure thorough validation? How can team procedures proactively avoid risk?

Boost Your Agile Transformation with Innovative Scrum Gamification

Gamification is the concept of adding gaming principles to non-gaming environments to increase participation. It is an attempt to create an environment that influences team members’ behaviors and improves productivity and engagement. The participants experience joy and motivation while playing games. According to a study by Tech Report, gamification improved productivity and engagement. Below is their analysis.

5 Reasons You Need to Add Atlas to Microsoft Dynamics

Originally created in the 1890s, the Swiss army knife was a logical solution to officers’ need to be able to repair their weapons, open their canned food, and cut things as needed. Since then, simple items that offer multiple solutions to achieve a goal are often referred to as being the Swiss army knife of their kind.

Introducing Polaris Catalog: An Open Source Catalog for Apache Iceberg

Open source file and table formats have garnered much interest in the data industry because of their potential for interoperability — unlocking the ability for many technologies to safely operate over a single copy of data. Greater interoperability not only reduces the complexity and costs associated with using many tools and processing engines in parallel, but it would also reduce potential risks associated with vendor lock-in.

Introducing Multiple Snowflake Configurations per ThoughtSpot Connection

Organizations leveraging cloud data warehouses like Snowflake require the ability to efficiently manage and optimize their data connections. Without this, data teams will face challenges with various use cases, such as workload distribution and environment testing. Recognizing the need for greater flexibility and control over data connections, ThoughtSpot developed a powerful new feature: Multiple Configurations per Connection.

Unit Testing In Python Is Way More Convenient Than You'Ve Thought

As software developers, we all write lots and lots of lines of code while building an application. But to ensure that each and every components work perfectly in the software, we really need to do some unit testing. This ensures proper functionality and reliable performance of our product. These testing of individual components is known as Unit Testing. For the dynamic nature and the ease of writing tests alongside the code, Python can be a viable option for unit testing of our software.

What is a database?

A database is a storage system that stores data in an organized manner for easy access and management. In just the last two years, 90% of the world’s data has been created, and the volume of global data doubles every two years. All this data is stored in databases. So, whether you’re checking the weather on your phone, making an online purchase, or even reading this blog, you’re accessing data stored in a database, highlighting their importance in modern data management.