The 5 foundations needed to master Agile It’s almost 20 years since the agile manifesto was written, drawing on software engineering methodologies that had been evolving for several decades. Today, agile is the dominant approach to building software and many engineers have only ever worked in agile approaches. But agile is a practice that is …
Parser Week is a virtual event that offers a 360-degree view of the world of technology by bringing together our expert team members and keynote industry speakers to share ideas, methods, strategies and tools. It will take place on June 16th and 17th 14 to 17 hs GMT +1 (UK) 14-17 HS GMT+1 London 15-18 …
Raul Estrela 04-05-2020 Containerization of applications has been a massive trend in the IT Industry. They provide a logical packaging mechanism in which applications can be abstracted from the environment they run, allowing them to be deployed consistently. The separation of concerns they provide, makes the developer\’s life easier as they can focus more in …
Raul Estrela 07-05-2020 In the Information Age, we all want answers from the web as quick as possible. Compared to the past software systems nowadays need to process a huge amount of data, in very different hardware contexts where cloud based systems are a reality. Now, the market demands responsive, loosely coupled, scalable, resilient and …
Our mission, as testers, is to adjust the balance: you should know which parts should be automated and which parts should be done by manual testing. But what is better, automatic testing or manual testing? Testing is testing and must be done between developers and testers. Every kind of testing is great. It’s a task …
What is the purpose of automation? To replace a human by an application which executes a designed process? Or to ensure better quality and more efficient use of available resources? Problems of quality assurance professionals are always the same: they were the same 10 years ago and they are the same now – there is …
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Modern programming languages support easy, out-of-the-box multithreading, which leads to multitasking becoming synonymous with efficiency. Multithreading gives the ability to simultaneously run or execute multiple tasks, represented as Threads – and it can take different shapes. Multiple patterns were identified, different techniques were conceived and mechanisms have been exhaustively enhanced to simplify and increase the …
