Blog Type: Technology

Exploratory Testing with Inflectra SpiraTest

Exploratory testing using Inflectra Spira Test allows creating, executing, and getting test results very fast. Exploratory testing allows to write and execute test cases simultaneously while we are testing the desired functionality as test cases are not created in advance. The Exploratory Test Case type, supported by the Spira Test, supports documenting executed test steps […]

Running .NET Core apps in Docker containers on AWS

Do you need a cross-platform performant app that can run in the cloud, be performant, can easily scale, and can be started quickly? Nowadays, with .NET Core, we have an open source cross-platform optimized framework in which we can build apps quickly, and with Docker, we have the necessary operation system virtualization and a platform […]

How to Build FB Chatbot Using Amazon Lex (Part 2)

In the first part of the blog How to build FB Chatbot using Amazon Lex we were talking about how to build conversational chatbots using Amazon Lex. We specified the basic conversation flow and Lex took care of the rest. Now, let’s connect the Lex Bot to a Facebook messenger. Setting up the connection is […]

Jira User Directory Custom Attributes Integration

Jira supports integration with external LDAP User Directories. This is a powerful feature that allows authentication and authorization of users registered into existing (corporate) directories. One of the LDAP templates supported out of the box is Microsoft Active Directory. LDAP User Directory integration is particularly useful in the case of Jira Service Desk where users shall be able to access […]

Implementing Page Object Model with Robot Framework for Web Tests Automation

Robot is a mature test automation framework based on a keyword-driven paradigm that provides one interface for developing automated tests for different systems under tests – web, mobile, APIs, Databases, etc. This article describes an approach for testing web applications that follows the PageObject approach, enabling easy maintenance of automated tests implemented using the Robot […]

Headless testing with Chrome and Selenium using Ruby

What is a Headless testing? The term itself refers to executing automated web tests without “opening” a browser UI or loading any visual elements from web pages. Headless testing can be executed on so-called headless browsers, which are browsers without a graphical user interface. A headless browser is a browser that doesn’t “show” any human […]

Experimenting with Kotlin and JVM on AWS Lambda

Amazon Web Services has announced Lambda containers that support Java since mid 2015. Lambda provides the Amazon Linux build of openjdk 1.8 which means that Lambda fully supports running all languages that can be compiled and run on the Java Virtual Machine. There are many popular languages that use JVM such as Scala, Groovy and […]

Why a data warehouse can bring great business value in the banking services?

The nature of the banking industry has always been data-driven. In dynamic conditions, dictated by today’s market, banks work in an environment with great competition and huge pressure. Their main goal is attracting new customers and keeping the existing ones, while constantly improving the services they provide and, of course, increasing the overall revenue. Technology […]

How to build FB Chat Bot using Amazon Lex (Part 1)

Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational chatbots quickly and easily. It provides the deep functionality and flexibility of natural language understanding and automatic speech recognition, thus allowing developers to build highly engaging user experiences. To create a bot the developer just needs to specify the basic conversation flow in the Amazon Lex console. […]