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How to read a string value in spark with Python?
By john josef

I am using Azure Databricks with Blob Storage. In my Python Notebook, I wanted to read a raw string using spark.read(). I dont know how to read a string with this methodology, if not this then is there any other way by which I can read a string value directly using spark. Because then I need to write that particular string in a text file using df.write.format("text").save([path]).

Currently I am only able to read contents from a file using spark.read.text([path of file]). So, instead of reading from file I directly wanted to pass a string value.

what are the types of Web Tables in Selenium?
By steve joy

types of Web Tables in Selenium

Can you explain random/monkey testing?
By steve joy

Can you explain random/monkey testing?

Is there any testing tools which can help in automating spark jobs and verification of hive tables
By neel shah

im currently facing a challenge i need to automate spark jobs ( basically spark jobs trigger the job which takes data from input tables and put into output tables ...these are hive tables)  is there any tool or way to automate end to end effectively.....thanks in advance..any approaches are welcome

Xamarin and hockeyapp for DevOps
By Robert Daniel

 

So, my team's who completed DevOps from the reputed DevOps Training institute, been trying to work with Xamarin and hockey app, we want to automate the whole build process, like for Windows, Androis and IOS. Our end goal here is to make sure that the compilation will be sent directly to HockeyApp after the code is entered. We aren't really confident using CI/CD, are there any alternatives? like PowerShell script. How can we implement this using VSTS?

What are the testing challenges that banking and financial organizations might encounter while implementing FLEXCUBE?
By Roberto Romello

I want to know the testing challenges that the banking and financial services sector might encounter while implementing FLEXCUBE to address a bank's core banking needs. Also, I want to know a list of recommended software used in the banking sector.

what is the best way to approach testing in the financial investment industry
By shaakir johaar

I would like to find out strategies used by other QA as well as which methods would work best in this environment as I am used to working in a dev environment and not financial institution 

 
 

How to execute the Test methods in different chrome instance using maven
By Ashwini K

I have 5 testNg methods. It will take around 2 to 3 hours to complete the 5 test methods. So I want to execute each test methods in different chrome instance so that time will be reduced. Am executing the test methods using java main class by passing the series file which contains the class name.

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: gherkin/IGherkinDialectProvider
By Ramesh M

I am trying to run the basic cucumber case. But getting "java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: gherkin/IGherkinDialectProvider error.

I have downloaded and added all the selenium and cucumber jars to Eclipse.

Please check and advise.

 

How to run partial testSuite using selenium webDriver
By Ramesh M

There are 100 test cases under regreesion suite. But i would like to run only 10 test cases. How this can be performned using selenium webDriver.

Defining KPIs and Metrics...
By Douglas Preyna

I'm currently building out a Test PMO for an insurance company. We have a long term, fixed-price contract with a vendor using a waterfall model.  I'm currently working on KPIs and metrics which I will use to tell the testing story, which means both technical and business comsumers will need to find value in them. I'm conducting targeted interviews atm  but am interested in hearing if any of you have had experience in this arena.  

What kinds KPIs / metrics have you found valuable?

What kinds of chatring / mapping have you found to be confusing?

What considerations would you want to address?

Any additional comments?

Devices to user for mobile app testing
By aric snyders

We are small Dev shop who outsources mobile app development to a third party.  We do in-depth user acceptance testing of the app in house.  We currently have a couple an older iphone 6s and Samsung Galaxy S6.  Was looking to expand/upgrade our hardware.  Was wondering if anyone out there was using IOS and Android tablets to do their manual testing as opposed to smart phones to allow for a bigger display/ease of testing.  

When a new System is going to be tested, what is the approach you take?
By Daniel Villarreal

Suppose you work at a Company. 

And a new Client arrives, he needs the system he has, and he continues to build, to be tested. 

What is the approach you take, to find

-which tests to approach

-which tests to automate

-which tools to use

-how to build a solution for that client Testing and Automation testing needs?

Image recognition testing
By Luis Gil

Hello, 

do you use image recognition testing tools like Sikulix ?

How do you overcome the restrictions that the test tool needs always to be executed in a screen with the same resolution ? 

Usually the test case fails when is executed in a screen with a different resolutions.

Are any tools / image matching algorithms that allow to overcome this limitation?

Thanks in advance

Supported/validated browsers for medical device/software?
By Mike Copeland

I have been in software test for medical devices/software for the last five years, across three different companies. With my prior two organizations we formally validated our web-based software products only for the one or two most recent versions of Internet Explorer (at those times). Having our software work in Chrome or Firefox were nice-to-haves, but we did not communicate to our customers that we supported those browsers,  I'm soon to start work on a major release of an existing product, and the Project has decided to officially test/validate only Chrome, based on our current knowledge that the current release has known issues with IE. Seems to me we could be taking the easy way out, and not taking into consideration what our users use (often by policy). Apparently we don't currently have that information, though, I have brought it up that we should try to figure that out. 

Historically, hospitals/labs/medical offices/etc have - by policy - typically only employed IE for business use, but I know market share in this sector has been shifting to Chrome. But how much/fast? General browser usage, and even entrprise usage statistics are easy to come by, but I'm banging my head at this point trying to find information specific to healthcare/medical research. 

What are your experiences/thoughts on this?

 

 

Looking for a test lab reservation system
By Justin Frye

Currently, we have created a reservation system using outlook rooms. Each test environment within the lab has a "room" that someone can book in outlook and gives the user/tester the ability to see what labs are available. However, there are limits to the amount of information that can be supplied for each "room" and it really is not easy to see further details of the "room" (server image, server os, sql server version, application versions, etc). 

 

I know about LabAgenda, and may pursue this. But is there any other systems out there that people prefere? 

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