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Terraform 1.6 Makes Testing Framework Generally Available
HashiCorp has released Terraform 1.6 with several new improvements including a new testing framework. Additional improvements include changes to config-driven import, Terraform Cloud CLI workflows, and the Amazon S3 backend. This version marks the first release of Terraform to be under the Business Source License v1.1 (BSL 1.1).
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Testing across a Large Number of Inputs with Property-Based Testing
Property-based testing is an approach that involves specifying statements that should always be true, rather than relying on specific examples. It enables you to test functions across a large number of inputs with fewer tests. Every run of a property-based test will use different inputs, which can give you confidence your code works in a general case.
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How Airbnb Improved its CI Pipeline for iOS Using AWS and Terraform
AirBnb has historically managed its own fleet of Macs to run its iOS continuous integration pipeline. Thanks to AWS providing support for Macs, AirBnb engineers could migrate their iOS CI infrastructure to AWS to increase flexibility, consistency, and efficiency.
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Programming Foundations for Test Automation
Proper programming foundations can improve your test automation, making it easier to maintain testing code, and reduce stress. A foundation of the theory and basic principles of coding and programming can help to bring test automation to the next level. Object-oriented programming principles can help to overcome code smells.
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Improve Logic Apps (Standard) Workflows Observability with Application Insights
Microsoft recently announced the release of the Public Preview Enhancements for Logic Apps Standard in Application Insights. These enhancements provide developers with more in-depth insights into the performance and health of their standard Logic Apps, making it easier to diagnose issues and optimize performance.
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Kubefirst Platform Improves Local Experience and Password Management
Kubefirst, an open-source infrastructure application platform, recently released version 1.11. This version adds improved support for their local installation including a new local DNS implementation, enables Traefik ingress controller for local installs, and adds trusted local TLS certificates.
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Test Automation Requires a Strategy and Clean Code
Having a good strategy for test automation can make it easier to implement test automation and reduce test maintenance costs. The test automation pyramid and automation test wheel can be of help when formulating a test automation strategy and plan. Test automation code should be clean code, and treated similarly to production code.
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Kubernetes Report Finds Increase in Poorly Configured Workloads
Fairwinds, a provider of Kubernetes software, has released their Kubernetes Benchmark Report 2023. The report shows an overall trend of worsening configuration issues across the surveyed organizations. This includes increases in organizations running workloads allowing root access, workloads without memory limits set, and workloads impacted by image vulnerabilities.
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GitHub Introduces go-gh to Simplify the Creation of GitHub CLI Extensions
Introduced in GitHub CLI 2.0, extensions allow developers to add new features by writing small Go programs. To make it easier to create extensions, GitHub is now releasing a new library, go-gh. Additionally, the latest version of GitHub CLI introduces two new commands to search and browse the catalog of available extensions.
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Generating Text Inputs for Mobile App Testing Using GPT-3
A group of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Monash University have presented a new approach to text input generation for mobile app testing based on a pre-trained large language model (LLM). Dubbed QTypist, the approach was evaluated on 106 Android apps and automated test tools, showing a significant improvement of testing performance.
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Score Provides a Workflow Centric Approach to Container Workload Management
Score is designed to reduce the complexity and duplication required to run workloads across multiple cloud environments. Score defines workloads in a platform-agnostic fashion via YAML. At the time of release, the Score supports three platforms: Helm, Docker Compose, and Humanitec.
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JetBrains Previews Aqua, New Test Automation-Oriented IDE
JetBrains Aqua, now available in preview, is a new IDE focusing on test automation and integrating a number of distinct tools that are at the core of an automation engineer's daily routine, says JetBrains. Its features include multi-language support, an HTTP client and a Web inspector, database management, integrated Docker support, and more.
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Scalable Automation Frameworks for Functional and Non-Functional Testing
Separating the capabilities of a testing framework from the actual tests can enable scaling automated testing for complex enterprise products. According to Alexander Velinov, we should agree on the types of tests to execute automatically during release and what should be kept as manually triggered tests.
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How Slack Engineers Addressed Their Most Common Mobile Development Pain Points
In a rather detailed article, Slack engineers Ahmed Eid and Arpita Patel provided an interesting peek into the processes they adopted along the years to improve developer experience in a number of distinct areas and the tools they used to that aim.
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Reliable Continuous Testing Requires Automation
Automation makes it possible to build a reliable continuous testing process that covers the functional and non-functional requirements of the software. Preferably this automation should be done from the beginning of product development to enable quick release and delivery of software and early feedback from the users.