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How to Save Time and Money by Testing Spark Locally

Xebia

Why should you think once again about testing Spark? Data Engineers were tempted by the pressure of the moment to give up on testing all together. There was no need for generating your own data; just take a percentage of production data. Shouldering blame: if something goes wrong, blame your Data Engineer!

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How I use Gitlab – multi-project pipelines for Cypress E2E testing

Xebia

It has everything to do with the hassle-free setup of the testing framework. One of the great powers of Cypress is that it offers an official Cypress Dashboard with which you can record, parallelise and load balance your tests, and has many more features. No mocking / stubbing in these tests. It just works great out of the box.

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Functional vs non-functional software testing

CircleCI

When you think of software testing, what comes up first? For many developers, unit tests and integration tests are often top of mind. Both software testing methods are vital to writing and maintaining a high-quality production codebase. What is functional testing? Integration testing. Closed-box testing.

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Article: Moving towards a Future of Testing in the Metaverse

InfoQ Culture Methods

In this article, Tariq King describes the metaverse concept, discusses its key engineering challenges and quality concerns, and then walks through recent technological advances in AI and software testing that are helping to mitigate these challenges. By Tariq King

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Article: Using Machine Learning for Fast Test Feedback to Developers and Test Suite Optimization

InfoQ Culture Methods

Software testing, especially in large scale projects, is a time intensive process. Test suites may be computationally expensive, compete with each other for available hardware, or simply be so large as to cause considerable delay until their results are available.

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CodeSignal secures $50M for its tech hiring platform

TechCrunch

In less than a year after raising $25 million in Series B funding , technical assessment company CodeSignal announced a $50 million in Series C funding to offer new features for its platform that helps companies make data-driven hiring decisions to find and test engineering talent.

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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Kevin Wylie

Netflix Tech

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview Interview with Kevin Wylie This post is part of our “Data Engineers of Netflix” series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. Kevin, what drew you to data engineering?