Setting Up CI/CD in Robot Framework

Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) are two main DevOps Software Development practices which help organizations to deliver applications in a faster and reliable way. In Continuous Integration, developers regularly merge their code changes into a central repository, after which automated builds and tests are run. Thus developer Read more

Introduction to Akka framework

  Akka is an open source framework for developing concurrent and distributed applications. Akka supports actor based programming model for resolving the issues in concurrency. Today we have multi core CPUs for processing, so in order to improve the performance of a program we need to use multiple cores concurrently, that means we have t Read more

Data Driven Testing in Robot Framework

Why data driven testing? Tasks in testing services such as quality assurance tasks sometimes require you to examine how different “classes” of data will perform in the same test procedure. A perfect example to explain this is a login to website. The classic way to test this case is to give a valid email and valid password and click on sub Read more

Understanding Rundeck…

Rundeck is an open-source tool that helps to define build, deploy and manage automation. It provides web console, CLI tools, and a Web API. It is written in Java and allows you to run tasks across a set of nodes. Role based access control policy gives more flexibility to manage different user access permissions. Process automations are defined as j Read more

Jenkins for Continuous Integration and Deployment

A practice that is becoming swiftly popular and integral in the software development process is Continuous Integration (CI). It is a software engineering practice where individual changes are immediately tested and integrated to a larger repository. It helps developers seamlessly detect bugs at an early stage, as each check-in is verified by an au Read more

Popular Open Source Tools for Security Testing

What is Security Testing? Security testing is performed to ensure that the data within an information system is protected and not accessible by unauthorized users. It protects applications against serious malware and other unanticipated threats that may crash the application. It helps to figure out all the loopholes and weaknesses of the system in Read more

Automation Challenges and Solutions – Robot Framework

Automation Testing - Robot Framework Automation has gained significant importance in present times with the rise in demand for agile and DevOps. For continuous integration and delivery, we require tests that run quickly and reliably. On the other hand, this demand is making test automation complicated and challenging. Robot Framework is an open s Read more

Docker Demystified…

Containers VS Virtual Machines Virtual Machines (VMs) and Containers differ only on few dimensions; while VMs provide a virtualized environment to run multiple OS instances (see figure a), containers provide a method to isolate applications and act as a virtual platform for more applications (see figure b). Containers offer a way to virtualize an Read more

Introducing Katalon Studio…

As test engineers, we are well aware that reusability, scalability, improving test coverage and time and effort saving are the primary benefits of test automation. Currently, these benefits are being achieved through Selenium integrated with other third party tools. But the framework is now giving way to a powerful and free test automation tool – Read more

Unified Payments Interface

Dawn of the Digital Economy At the turn of the century, digitization of the economy has become the speediest factor driving globalization. This new and faster payment system, called the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) implemented by the National Payments Corporation of India, aims to facilitate instant funds transfer, along with opening doors to Read more