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Measuring user effectiveness with the Apdex metric

Creating a business application is one thing, measuring user-satisfaction another. Most software houses in recent years have woken up to the importance of user-facing metrics, the knowledge that user satisfaction regarding software application performance is an integral part of business success. But the problem in application performance measurement is that there are too many metrics [...]

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Debugging and tracing PHP5 applications

In: php|tech|testing

debugConsole is a tool for debugging and tracing PHP5 applications on production servers without compromising the live-traffic. With PHP functions you can inspect variables, watch changes in variables over the whole runtime, measure partial runtimes, set checkpoints and write logfiles. debugConsole also replaces the PHP error-handling so that notices, warnings and other errors are also [...]

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Importance of logging in web development

In: software|testing

Software development is an exercise in managing complexity, and the more tools and methods we have at our disposal the easier it gets. One of my favorites is logging – recording important code execution points that I think are important, especially during debugging. Whenever developing functions or class methods I make it a point to [...]

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Selenium IDE: Pattern matching

In: testing

Patterns are bread and butter of Selenium tests. Many commands in Selenium take the pattern parameter. They enable you to match various content types on a web page – links, text, elements. There are chiefly three type of patterns you can use in your tests: globs, exact and regular expressions.

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Generating random data on the client side

In: data|javascript|libraries|testing

Automatically creating fake or sample data is a frequent requirement for front-end web developers. Although usually not tedious, there are times when you need to quickly and automatically generate structured data for your html forms or CMS systems for testing purposes. Faker.js is a JavaScript implementation inspired by Benjamin Curtis’s Ruby Gem Faker and Perl’s [...]