Making Code Review Work

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While code review is a widely adopted practice, there are so many ways to accomplish it that it's become fairly common for teams to struggle with the best way to do it. I will venture to say that this is one of those areas where you need to be somewhat flexible. How you … [Read more...]

Lies, Damned Lies and Benchmarks

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Benchmarks can reveal the truth – well, some of the truth – about technologies. A well-constructed benchmark can provide a way to compare performance, reliability and other metrics that can make a difference in comparing product quality and effectiveness. But you have to … [Read more...]

How Spotify Does Test Automation

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Haven’t you always wanted to know how larger companies like Spotify set up their automated tests? Well, here's your chance. Kristian Karl, test manager at Spotify, was one of the presenters at MeetUI 2013, soapUI's first-ever user conference that was held in Stockholm on … [Read more...]

The Visual User Experience this Father’s Day

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With Mother’s day behind us, June is here along with our annual celebration of fatherhood, and it’s time to show dad some love. Hard to say if it’s seasonal or cultural, however, there is a tendency to pay less attention to Father’s Day than Mother’s Day. … [Read more...]

A Little Federal Swagger for your APIs

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At SmartBear, we are totally jazzed by so many of the cool software initiatives going on right now. One that particularly strikes our fancy is the Open Data initiative, and how the U.S. Government is jumping into the fray with both feet. If you're using any of the government … [Read more...]

Test with Realistic Data

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Welcome to the third installment of our eight-part webinar series about “The Seven Fundamentals of Mission-Critical Service Testing.” In this series, Robert Schneider, from our training-partner WiseClouds, goes through what you should be thinking about if you’re … [Read more...]

Top 4 Test Automation Challenges

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Implementing test automation into a development workflow is a daunting task, especially during development. It is important to know how to tackle integration before implementation and to be transparent for the whole process. Automated testing tools provide enormous ROI in … [Read more...]

The Ins and Outs of Load Testing: APIs and Web Applications [Video]

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I’m in the process of writing a new eBook on load testing at the level of APIs vs. Web applications. I recently spoke with Niclas Reimertz, Managing Director of SmartBear Sweden and co-founder of SoapUI, to get his take on these two different domains. In the following … [Read more...]

Meet a Professional Genome Wrangler: Madeleine Ball Keeps DNA Straight at Harvard’s Personal Genome Project

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Computers have played a part in the pursuit of science for most of their history. Humanity would not have made it to the moon without a myriad of computers controlling every aspect of the space flight, and computers are crucial in modern statistical analysis of data. But … [Read more...]

The Rebirth of Twitter’s API

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Remember last year when Twitter caused a big controversy by announcing that their new API  strategy would include a 100,000 user limit? Well, today is the day that Twitter API v1.0 is finally being laid to rest. While it was the user limit that made big news back in the … [Read more...]

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