App Engine is a fully managed, serverless platform for developing and hosting web applications at scale. You can choose from several popular languages, libraries, and frameworks to develop your apps, and then let App Engine take care of provisioning servers and scaling your app instances based on demand. — https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs …

Pandas: a software library written for the Python programming language, typically used in data manipulation and analysis. An API can be used as a data source in tandem with Pandas to convert data into a DataFrame with Datap visualisation: this blog covers how to do this in only five steps. …

A few years ago, I had read a book by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky; “Make Time — How to focus on things that matter”. …

A Community of Practice (CoP) shares a common concern, a set of problems, or an interest in a topic; consisting of individuals who — in the pursuit of fulfilling both individual and group goals — come together. …

A guide on creating an API system integration test framework using Python. — A Microservice architecture consists of a collection of small, autonomous services. Each service is self-contained and should implement a single business capability. Although this type of architecture helps teams with agility, scalability, easy fault isolation, etc., there are several challenges when it comes to development and testing: testing a small…

In agile development, both verification and validation happen as close to simultaneously as possible. Largely, this is due to the necessity to keep refining and updating the user stories, requiring small V&V loops for continuous feedback. Prior to any further exploration on this however, we must disambiguate the full definitions…

In software development we always talk about measures. There are several key performance indicators (KPI) and metrics in the agile software development process which provide guidance for strategic planning , evaluation and improving operational process. Some of the most common KPIs in agile are cumulative flow, sprint burn down, velocity…

The first time I heard about Docker was at XP 2016, when the speakers kept talking about how it was going to solve all the problems. I was curious, not knowing what Docker was or what problems it could be used to solve - which made me have hunch that…

In my opinion, a fitting analogy for a Test Strategy document would be that pair of socks in your wardrobe that are omnipresent, but never there simultaneously. Imagine my plight when I was suddenly responsible for creating one! I felt like I had been set up for failure. I have…