Selenium Automated Testing: Getting Started

Getting Started with Selenium Automation

Samuel Seidl Articles, Automation, Development Technologies & Tools, Programming, Testing Leave a Comment

Automated testing is a great way to ensure that any application can continue to grow and change while still giving fast and practical feedback to developers. This feedback can tell developers whether or not the changes introduced meet the requirements of the product and don’t introduce bugs.

As discussed in a previous blog series, automated testing can be a valuable resource when trying to deliver both agile and maintainable applications. But where should you get started and what technologies should you use to build automated tests?

In this post, I will discuss how to get started with and how to build out a simple automated test in one of the most popular options: Selenium.

Sequelize Command Line and Migration

Sequelize ORM: Interacting with databases using Node

James Fielder Articles, Databases, Development Technologies & Tools, Programming Leave a Comment

Today, we are going to be going over a very useful tool called Sequelize. It is an Object Relational Mapper (ORM), which allows us to interact with relational databases using Node.js.

Sequelize supports many different databases, but in this blog, we will be using MySQL. We will go over how to set up a local MySQL instance and a Node.js server using Sequelize to communicate with it.

Along the way, we’ll learn basic Sequelize functionally, such as the command line tool and migrations, to understand how to work with the database…

Building a Productivity Mansion with Microsoft 365 Planner

Building a Productivity Mansion: Microsoft 365 Planner

Chris Weiner Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, Programming, Tutorial Leave a Comment

Alright, Innovator! I see you’ve been using Microsoft 365 Planner, and it’s like you’ve started building your productivity mansion. As someone who’s been through the process, I’d love to help you add more floors and rooms to it.

So, let’s pick up our productivity blueprints and continue building with these three awesome strategies.

Temporal .NET SDK and Workflows for Enterprise Apps

Temporal.IO and Workflows in Enterprise Applications

Zach Gardner .NET, Architecture, Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, Microservices, Python Leave a Comment

In every software application I’ve ever worked on, no matter the industry or maturity of the team or number of weeks in a sprint, there have been three questions that always come up: What is the best way to center a

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? Should we use tabs or spaces? How should we implement complex workflows?

It was with that third question in mind that I stumbled upon a link in HackerNews a few weeks back on Temporal.io announcing that its .NET SDK is now in alpha.

If you aren’t in the know, Temporal is a library that lets you describe workflows as code. It’s available in multiple languages, but the Python flavor is the most popular.

So, I took a leap of faith, tried out the Temporal .NET SDK, and decided to recap my thoughts for you all as a blog. I’ll walk through, at a high level, what the Temporal approach is, the implications of workflows at the different zones of enterprise architecture, and where I see Temporal being useful in a large organization’s software strategy.