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March Your Way to Financial Freedom

Our 71st Independence Day is now behind us! It has been nearly three quarters of a century since our country has been free from the British Empire. We are free to live our lives the way we want to, within the confines of legal jurisdictions, of course. We can make our own decisions and choose our own paths. We are also free to use the resources of our country for our own good. Yes, Independence Day is a day we should all get together and celebrate. And yet, there are some parts of our lives where we are not as free as we should be. One such part has to do with our finances. We often tend to fall into the clutches of money and that too, by our own doing. Hence, this Independence Day, let’s understand how we can achieve financial freedom. Use credit cards only for emergencies Credit card companies lure us with offers, discounts and cashbacks. We are allowed to buy whatever we want right now and asked to pay for it only later. The credit card companies give us this flexibility be...

How to Find the Best QA, Testing Companies

With the increased focus on software quality and with the increasing competition, now a days every software development project has software testing part of their SDLC process. To avoid hiring costly resources to perform complex QA testing work, several companies choose to outsource their software testing work. Due to ease of delegating their Qa testing workload and cost-effectiveness, outsourcing testing services has become quite popular. This article will help you to decide why you should outsource your QA, testing and test automation services and to find and select the best software testing and QA company to outsource your testing related activities. When and Why to Outsource Software Testing? Admit it or not, software testing and quality engineering (QE) are indispensable areas of software development life cycle. Unfortunately for many companies, very little attention is given to the testing activities. This can actually be an accident waiting to happen. No serious business ...

Why Python is Perfect for Beginners

Python is easy to learn, read, and use. And it’s also one of the hottest technologies in the job market. But this is just Python in a nutshell – there’s a lot more to it. Read on to see our top reasons for why Python is perfect for beginners. Easy to Learn, Read, and Use Unlike C# and other languages, Python’s syntax is human readable and it’s concise. As a beginner, this will allow you pick up the basics quickly, with less mental strain, and you can level up to advanced topics quicker. With one glance at Python code, you can infer what the code is doing. In contrast, most programming languages require more syntax (written) code to accomplish similar tasks, and the syntax doesn’t mirror the human language. As you can note, the amount of code we write even for a simple application (7 lines in C# vs 1 line in Python) supports the narrative that Python is easier to use. If we extend that example further to a small number guessing game we can take see how much Python can take the ...

5 ways organizations can benefit from machine learning

Compliance and legal teams are struggling to keep pace with an ever-evolving regulatory and legal landscape. Responsibilities range from constantly tracking employment and office safety standards to understanding complex rules governing ethical employee conduct to dealing with the monumental regulatory, legal, privacy and cost challenges created by new technologies such as the cloud, social media and the Internet of Things (IoT). Knowing the rules of the road can be every bit as difficult as ensuring employees follow them, which in turn can create critical gaps in both rule tracking and employee monitoring that lead to waste, fraud, abuse and other practices that put a company at risk. The difficulty of this struggle is exemplified by the state of compliance with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Despite more than two years of high-profile educational efforts from the EU, legal publications and solution vendors, a recent survey from Deloitte found t...

Best Practices for Working with Test Data

We live in a world where data is king. Although you might not think that data has a huge role to play in software testing, it does. The reason? Because software testing is only productive if the data produced by the tests is used effectively. That means that if you do not properly analyze and interpret data from tests, you might as well not be performing tests at all. If you run just a few tests, it's easy enough to put this advice into practice. However, things get more complicated when you start thinking about how to use test data effectively at scale. If you are running dozens or hundreds of automated tests daily, how do you ensure that your test data is effectively analyzed, that the results of the analysis are communicated to all stakeholders, and that those stakeholders act upon the insights produced by the data? I address these questions in this article by discussing best practices for effectively interpreting test data when employing agile software testing strategi...

Future of Java for the Enterprise

In recent months, it has been revealed that Java is once again undergoing some significant changes. In addition to a vote that changed the name of enterprise Java, currently Java EE, to Jakarta EE — the brand is having its governance handed over to The Eclipse Foundation. For those used to coding robust, complex enterprise applications using Java, tinkering with the product and breathing new life into an already overcrowded DevOps marketplace may sound like a worst case scenario. But, Java may not be defunct yet as the goal of the changeover is to spearhead new innovations for Java developers to move forward in a cloud and container-driven enterprise world. Here’s a look at the future of Java for the enterprise and what it may mean for you as a developer. Java Today: A Quick Review As you already know, Java is a computing platform that relies on object-oriented programming or OOP. When it was first productized for the internet by Sun Microsystems in 1995, Java offered a we...

How Important is UI UX Design in an App Development Process?

Most of the people using digital media are either on mobile phones or desktops. Both platforms have the majority of digital users. Desktops are great for quick access to web pages and mobile phones are great to create engagement. We cannot stress enough on the popularity of mobiles and mobile related technologies, though. With this advancement, people are now looking to spend less time to get more done without having any issues to deal with. Mobile applications are one of the biggest reasons why people are going mobile. In 2017, the number of app downloads was 197 billion and is said to reach 353 billion in the year 2021. People are rushing into mobile apps because of its functionality and the ability to get things done quickly. But what makes mobile apps better? UI UX app design is one of the answers. The design of an app enhances the user experience which is the biggest factor that ensures the success of an app. Majority of users prefer an app that has simple yet elegant desig...