I believe this will be of help to folks who are not associated with Databases or their management on a daily basis. What is database? Database is a collection of Information that is systematically organised so that it can be…
One of the biggest bug-a-thons in India, Bug-A-Sur held on 21 Jan 2017 was back again in Bangalore with a bang with more apps, more bugs and bigger cash prizes. Hats off to Venturesity to have organized such an…
Terminology used in design process is being used so loosely that sometimes it is very confusing to differentiate the phases of the process. (1) While it might seem innocent enough, referring to a mockup as a wireframe is like a…
How many device models to consider while TESTING? Are you a mobile application test engineer who often comes up with this question? No worries, let us simplify this using a template. How many models one must test depends on the application….
“Do I go for SLF4j or LOG4j or both?” Classic question from my team. SLF4j has been around for sometime now and has been adopted heavily across. But certain things never get over. Hence I thought of writing down my thoughts as…
News of the big online retailers revisiting their return policy has made headlines in all the leading business newspapers. And why not, one out of five shipments end up in the return bucket! There is considerable cost associated with returned…
What is it? Dedicated mode to help Web Applications weather peak or unexpected traffic. Why do we need it? Often, performance heavy or resource intensive features take a toll on the Web Application. How would it work? There needs to…
You must have used switch cases many times in your Java code. However, the case entry can only be integer or any scalar type. What if the case entries become more flexible? When I say flexible, I mean it to…
With the recently concluded WWDC by Apple, which was a week long event held at San Francisco, Apple has brought their ‘ecosystem’ closer than ever. For starters, Apple has renamed the OS X line of operating systems to macOS to…
Have you been told many times, don’t use + operator to concatenate Strings? We know that it is not good for performance. How do you really know whether is it true or not? Do you know what is happening behind the…
Anyone associated with iOS automation on real apple devices would know the challenges it comes with. Appium is a leading automation framework, however one of the drawbacks of using Appium is that you can only launch those .ipa files on a real iPhone,…
Some of my team members asked me how to merge only specific commits from a branch into the current branch. The reason you’d want to do this is to merge specific changes that you need immediately, leaving the other code changes you’re…
Let’s begin with a definition of DevOps coming from ITIL background. “DevOps is just ITIL with 90% of stuff moved to ‘Standard Change’ because we automated the crap out of it” – TheOpsMgr A more modern Definition and Scope of…
In the era of hyper-connected world everybody want things to be done efficiently and effectively. Agile methodology came into existence to solve few of the time bound problems related to Software Development Life Cycle, but there are many challenges when it…
Minification is a process of compressing the source code, without changing it’s functionality. This technique is useful sometimes, specially in the case of a web application with huge JavaScript/CSS files. In other cases, it’s probably just a micro-optimization. Minifying JavaScript/CSS…
