Performance testing is usually something you plan and do over time. You create a set of scripts and you run them throughout different phases of the project. You compare the results and create some reports which will show if the overall performance of the application has increased or decreased. There could be situations where this
I’ve been a Python developer for quite a few years now and, although I’ve used other languages in the past, I identity myself as a Python guy. I love it - the language, the community, the frameworks. I could go on and on, but this article is not about that, it’s about Python development. Apparently,
::by Dragos Campean:: Ever since I have started working on the startup application called Niftio, which is an online presentation platform, I’ve heard how different teams work in outsourcing, in comparison to teams on products or startups. My job was to test the application, but besides from that, tasks for my team and I, were
Imagine you have a couple of applications based on Symfony, using Doctrine as the ORM, and sharing a domain. In order to avoid having a shared repository for an entity with queries intended for other applications, you’d need custom repositories for each application for the entities in the domain. Here’s my take on this issue.
It all started in March 2017, amidst the rumours of Steam, the largest games digital distribution platform, closing their Greenlight program and replacing it with an unknown yet submission fee. The time was right to launch our Greenlight campaign for Gorescript, a classic shooter, inspired by the 90s first person shooter games, such as Doom
I have been a Perl developer for most of my professional career, since I first started to write code for a living, about 6 years ago. I mostly did back-end for web applications, but I also remember a Voice over IP app and some DevOps scripts I wrote. I am still a Perl developer after
Maybe afraid is the wrong word. Maybe unwilling or reluctant would be more appropriate, but as working remotely in software development has become somewhat of a standard, a benefit and a need, all at the same time, I took the liberty to start with fear as a reason. Many companies that are in need of
We’ve all been in a situation where we had to include a 3rd party Magento extension into our project. And we surely had some doubts whether that extension was a good choice or not. When I say a ‘good choice’ I’m not referring only to the functional component of the extension, but to the
As testers, we usually use a large variety of tools in order to do our job efficiently, whether they’re native apps, browser extensions or web applications. This is due to the fact that testing activities don’t always follow a strict pattern or ‘best practices’. In order to be proficient in our job, a certain level
