Blog Type: Technology

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. […]

Service Virtualization with Parasoft Virtualize CE

Agile software development and DevOps are gaining more popularity day by day and the demand for tools to deliver service virtualization is growing rapidly as well. As a result, service virtualization is becoming an important concept in software development and QA/testing. In this article we will talk about service virtualization and a tool that enables […]

MuleSoft DataWeave JSON to XML transformations

What is one of the main challenges for each integration developer? On a daily basis, each integration developer encounters the challenge of successfully transforming the data from one data type to another. Mulesoft as an integration platform is giving excellent opportunities for achieving that by using the DataWeave transformations. In that regard in this article, […]

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