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I’ve been working at the intersection of the project portfolio and the product roadmaps. (You can tell because of the various posts about information persistence.) Here’s what I find when I work with my clients: They have years worth of projects in the project portfolio.They have years worth of ideas in various states of description in what they’re calling product roadmaps.They have years ...

In large enterprise applications sometimes we need to convert data objects to and from Map. Usually, it is an intermediate step to a special serialization. If it is possible to use something standard then it is better to use that, but many times the architecture envisioned by some lead architect, the rigid environment or some similar reason does not make ...

User experience (UX) is the process of designing products—in this case software programs or apps—so that they provide a meaningful and relevant experience to the end user. The field of user-centered design took off after Don Norman, the “father of UX,” published his book: The Design of Everyday Things. Norman opened his readers’ eyes to the wider context of user ...

CSS Locator in Selenium is one of the most important aspects of writing a script. If you cannot locate an element by using any CSS locator in Selenium, then being proficient at Selenium automation will be a tough task. Selenium provides multiple ways of locating an element. You can check out other articles around different CSS locator in Selenium that ...

CSS locators in Selenium are a fundamental concept that every tester who aims to perform automation testing with Selenium, should be aware of. Proficient use of CSS locators in Selenium can help you perform testing in a more efficient & thorough manner. I have been in the automation testing industry from 7 years now, & I often observe that testers ...

Every DevOps user today is aware of CI/CD as a concept. CI stands for continuous integration, whereas CD is often used interchangeably to signify “continuous delivery” and “continuous deployment.” Are they both the same thing? No. Do they have a common goal? Yes. While both practices look similar, there’s a fine line between the two. Let’s explore what these two ...

This is the third article in a three part series on local microservices.  The first two articles looked at: Object Orientation Behaviour Coupling ProblemBreaking the Jigsaw These articles identified the method coupling of Object Orientation creates a monolithic jigsaw of different shaped objects.  Microservices are breaking these into more manageable, smaller jigsaws that appear similar in shape. This article continues ...

The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) provides a managed runtime environment for the safe deployment of applications with performance that can often exceed that of natively compiled languages like C and C++.  Memory management with garbage collection and adaptive compilation through the use of just in time (JIT) compilation are the two most prominent features. Although the use of bytecodes and ...

The thing we call Agile is a virus. It gets into organizations and disrupts the normal course of business. In the early days, say before 2010, the corporate anti-bodies could be counted on to root out and destroy the virus before too much damage was done. But sometimes the anti-bodies didn’t work. As the old maxim says “that which doesn’t ...