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How Gamification drives Customer Engagement
The heart of any design philosophy is user engagement. With a user-centered approach, designers are constantly on the lookout for new techniques to enhance user engagement with products. The main objective of gamification in UX is to have strong emotional appeal, even in UI for serious aims. Gamification in UX design has assumed high importance in recent years.
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How Gamification drives Customer Engagement
The heart of any design philosophy is user engagement. With a user-centered approach, designers are constantly on the lookout for new techniques to enhance user engagement with products. The main objective of gamification in UX is to have strong emotional appeal, even in UI for serious aims. Gamification in UX design has assumed high importance in recent years.
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Indoor Positioning system — How to setup Indoor Atlas Positioning
Positioning systems played a major role in people’s lives since the GPS satellite technology, Cellular technology(AGPS). Satellite-based positioning fails indoors because flooring & accuracy may fail, but other technology standards have made indoor positioning possible.
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Insights into Risk Management in the Insurance Industry
A preexistence of a proper risk management culture underpins a risk management framework. Risk management-related communications and taking strict actions for violations, including disciplinary actions send the right signals across the organization. On the positive side, good risk management communication acts as an educative tool to assist the functional heads to build a solid risk management framework.
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Behavior Driven Development with Mocha
Behaviour Driven Development primarily focuses on the behavior of the end-user. The test cases focus on how a particular module should behave for particular action or input of the user. Read to know more.
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Extract meaningful information from Big Data using NLP and Machine Learning
Most often, AI systems are exposed to a vast variety of information such as the voice of a person, images with text content, raw documents like NEWS articles, etc. In order to act on this unstructured form of information (data), the AI has to perform one of the crucial processes called Information Extraction(IE).
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Insights on Database Caching Approaches
Before deciding the caching pattern, it is important to analyze the frequency of the underlying data update. It is also important to evaluate the risk of outdated data returned to the application. Read for more information.
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Expedite Performance of Node.js for CPU intensive applications like IoT
In the fast-moving world, everyone likes it right! Of course, the tiny devices make our life simpler with the fastest internet connectivity and communications. Take a look at our blog.
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Pair Programming — An Agile Approach
Pair Programming is a powerful programming approach in which team members mutually work in pairs can actually benefit from it and not all can easily adapt. It involves and requires soft skills along with the required technical stack skills
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Insights: Converting Angular Applications into a PWA
PWA stands for Progressive Web App and is web applications that have the advantage of both web and native controls. It’s built using common web technologies HTML, CSS, and JavaScript following a standard pattern. Let’s dive into the blog.
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Archiving Azure Application Insights Data for Deep Analytics
Did you have an incident on your Insights data that you want to analyze offline? Does your current plan doesn’t allow you to store Insights data for more than a specified period, usually 3 months? Read here on how this can be solved.
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Indoors and Outdoors — How and where IoT devices can be used for energy saving
In this fast-moving world we humans expect ease in executing each of our days to day activities. In our busy schedule, we forget to turn off the television, air conditioner, heaters, lights, close garage doors, etc., On the other hand office premises, shopping malls, theme parks, schools, colleges are all paying third-party vendors in order to monitor the temperature, air index, light controls, fire extinguishers, and emergency power backups.
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How Serverless Computing Scales Business
Serverless Computing is the latest paradigm in the Cloud Infra Management space as it dynamically allocates the required resources like servers, storage spaces, App Engines, Database requirements dynamically to execute a piece of code.
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Cyclomatic Complexity in Software Programming
Software Design is the process to convert the client user requirements into a few reasonable forms which help the developers during the coding and implementation stages. It deals with transforming the client requirements, as described in the SRS (Software Requirement Specification) document, into a form.
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DevOps as a Catalyst for High-Performance Teams
This article intends to dive into how the need for DevOps culture has evolved in the software industry over the recent years and how various tools, processes, and technologies have helped bring value to a lot of teams across the world that build amazing software at a very high pace.
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Insights into App Clips
Apple introduced a significant feature for both developers and users in iOS 14 — App clips. A simplified version of your app that provides access to some basic functionalities to the users. Your app clip will be available in the real-world environment and not in digital stores.
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The Significance of APIs in the Healthcare Industry
APIs play a vital role in healthcare IT communication since it permits data interchange among patients and healthcare providers. Before API came into the picture, it was difficult for healthcare contributors to engage patients and retrieve information. Read more here.
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Modern Gateway to Mobile App Development
Mobile application development has evolved over the years tremendously, and it is still growing as the world demands. Android and iOS are the two platforms that occupy most of the mobile world.
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Microservice Usage in Application Architecture
Microservice enables the creating of a product instead of a project. The team can focus on business goals with its own technology platform to extend the feature. It will not impact other services technology because of loosely coupled architecture; it is also very handy for speeding up quality since each Microservice can be tested individually.
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Personal Financial Management: Financial Planning II
With great financial planning, one can achieve their goals. All it takes is research, time, and dedication. Here’s some pointers on getting there.
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An Overview of Redux
Redux is a non-persistence session-level state management technique. The data is available across the application until you refresh or close the browser. Read for more information.
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Personal Financial Management: Golden Rules of Investing
With a bit of smart planning and investing you can easily cushion any crisis such as covid 19 or any future events. Get to know how, here.
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Scale Up your Business with the Planet’s most active Personal Messaging Platform — Whatsapp Business API
Whatsapp could be used effectively for our Business Development, Quality & Personalised Customer Service, Product endorsement at a lower cost. Read more.
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Async Operations with Kotlin Coroutines
Handling multitasking on Android is always a challenging and tedious job. However, with the Kotlin coroutine adoption, it is much easier for developers to write asynchronous code without blocking user interface and create a way to ease the developer jobs.
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Virtual Reality vs Augmented Reality vs Mixed Reality
A blog to guide you and help you understand the major differences between Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality. Read here for more information!
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Azure Storage: Why we should make the move
Azure Storage is Microsoft’s managed service providing cloud storage solution created recently to solve these for modern data storage scenarios. Azure Storage is highly available, durable, scalable, secure, and redundant.
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App Thinning for Mobile Applications
App thinning is a concept for modern-day applications that has a lot of resources on it. This helps developers make lightweight apps, that download fast and occupy minimum disk space.
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Takaful Insurance — a simplified approach
Takaful Insurance is quite a vague phenomenon not known to many. Keeping this in mind, this blog is an effort to give a broad idea of the concepts, operations, and processes involved in Takaful Insurance.
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Understanding The Fundamentals of CMS Web Security
In the emerging world, millions of websites running on content management systems. Here are a few tips and tactics that can help protect your website from uninvited guests to your business.
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gRPC — A recent communication protocol
gRPC stands for Remote Procedure Call, which is an open-source technology used for remote procedure call system. In some ways, gRPC is like REST which provides a provision to send requests from a client to a server. However, these are different in some ways. Find out more.
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Importance of Analytics and IT intervention in Insurance Sectors
IT is playing a critical role in insurance companies’ growth, with the help of specific trending technologies. There is bound to be more pressure on the industry over the coming years from greater competition, even-more fickle consumers, and increased regulation.
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Nourishing the Practice of Quality Assurance
If you have the intention for your product baby to be nourished carefully and grow up to be a strong and viable person, then you have got to pay the nanny tester well, give them freedom and space and treat them like family.
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Web Frameworks: React Continues to Reign
React had an enormous impact on web development, bringing with it ease and innovation useful for developers across the board. It has shown to be the most dominant JavaScript Web Framework in the past year, and the stats suggest that this will continue in years to come
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Storytelling: The Magic in UX
Storytelling in UX is including the process of ideation and experience into the design process, in the expectation that it meets the consumer demand. In this blog, we will dive deep into its importance, advantages, and more.
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Harnessing the True Transformational Power of Real-World Data in Healthcare
RWD is worth its weight in gold, as it provides critical insights into the health situation and treatment effectiveness in a more representative and diverse group of patients. Know more.
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Insight: Dark Mode in iOS 13
Apple’s inbuilt apps support dark mode and also third-party apps have options to add dark mode. Find out what’s interesting.
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Typescript or Standard Selenium Test Framework: which works best for your Project?
Which open-source framework should I choose when it comes to automating web applications — Selenium or Protractor? This is a key question that every automation engineer should ask himself. We have the answers.
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Evolution of the PHP Framework
PHP is the most popular scripting language in the world, used for many different purposes — flexibility, easy to use, when compared to other frameworks — but often, coding in PHP, or any other language for that matter, can get rather monotonous and repetitive.
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Agile Risk-based Software Testing
Risk Analysis has made the professional experience of testers simpler and more remunerative. Once you get to know the risk areas, it becomes easier to formulate plans and curb them successfully. Take a look.
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Accelerate Android Development using Jetpack Components
Developing Android applications is a complex process and many developers have a lack of knowledge about architecting their apps that can result in a good robust app — to deliver an extendable, maintainable, and testable codebase.
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Azure Bot Service — Microsoft Bot Framework, Channels, and Cognitive Services
Azure Bot Service helps us to build, connect, test, deploy, and manage bots. Read more.
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Top reasons for Mobile App Failures and how to avoid them through Proactive Testing
What do techie and business people fail to do or do wrong that makes their mobile apps fail? Here’s some insights.
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Introduction to the concepts of Cryptocurrency
In this blog, we will cover topics such as Cryptocurrency, bitcoins, and crypto-jacking.
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Advancement in Auto Layout using Size Classes
Size classes are an excellent solution that helps create adaptable layouts which look great in all orientation and size. Take a look.
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Shift Left — An approach towards Continuous Quality Improvement
Testing continues to plague modern development methods irrespective of how agile the teams are. The solution is simple.
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Top 10 PHP Frameworks in 2020
A PHP framework will help new developers easily get started with working on the project. It is easy to read and understand, test, maintain, and develop further. Read more.
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Designing API’s with gRPC
gRPC Remote Procedure call is a high performance, open-source, feature-rich RPC framework. The ideal usage of gRPC is for inter-service communication in microservices and for communication between mobile applications and servers.
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NLP’s potential to be Sherlock Holmes in enhancing our Watson minds
Healthcare has an unfathomable amount of data — medical histories, chart notes, prescriptions, medical claims data, lab results and imageries, data from clinical trials, the list is never-ending. So what can be done?
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App Development for Foldable Smartphones
While on the surface level it appears that it is only about having flexible UX in mobile apps, the impact is a lot more massive.
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Cyber Security: When Prevention is better than the Cure
Patient data is incredibly lucrative as it provides one of the highest payoffs to hackers on the dark web and hence Healthcare systems would always remain favored targets
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A Doctor On Call is a Doctor Indeed
The usage and adoption of telehealth is already on track for exponential growth with the era of COVID-19 causing panic and paranoia in the minds of healthcare consumers around the world.
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Insight into Diverse Risk Assessment Techniques
A business strategy to identify, assess, and prepare for any hazard that may interfere with the organization’s operation and objective
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How can ReactJS enrich your application User Interface?
Let’s take a look at how ReactJS can enrich your application User Interface.
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A glance into Machine Learning in Mobile Apps
Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence continue to transform each field by helping one to think broader and come up with innovative solutions for the business. Know how.
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Source Control & Shortcuts in GIT: understanding the significance
Source control is the practice of tracking and managing code changes in software projects. This is also known as Version control. Let’s take a look.
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Leveraging the Omnipresence of Social Media in Healthcare
Social Media and Healthcare is not just a mighty combination but also an essential one. Reports say that almost 90% of older adults who are on social media use it to receive or share health information.
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Hedge Funds vs. Mutual Funds: everything worth knowing
Hedge Funds and Mutual Funds are some of the many pooled investment products with the aim of achieving higher returns overtime on the investments. Here’s the difference.
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Risk Assessment & Determine Policy Premiums using Telematics
The insurance industry should always be data-centric. The introduction of Telematics and usage of this technological advancement in this industry will predict the accuracy and stop the fraudulent claims in an efficient manner.
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What’s interesting about the Bubble Notification in the Android 11
Bubbles help you minimize your application into a small icon, which can be moved around and placed anywhere on the screen and floats to the top of all other applications.
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Asset Management Terminologies that you need to know
We’ve put together a list of Asset Management Terminologies to guide you. It doesn’t matter if you’re a beginner or expert, this will act as a cheat sheet to have all the information you require. Take a look.
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Marine Insurance takes advantage of the benefits of Big data
Insurance companies can leverage Big data technology to redefine the legacy insurance process to an automated data-driven optimized process. Learn how here.
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Cutting Edge Technologies that are Catapulting Precision Medicine into Becoming a Reality
Precision Medicine and personalized treatment plans will allow doctors and researchers to predict more accurately which treatment plans, prevention strategies, and drugs for a particular disease will work in which groups of people.
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State of the Art Technology to tackle the Epidemic of Opioid Crisis
Big Data Analytics and AI have proven their mettle in the early detection of drug-seeking behavior and providing crucial data to healthcare providers who can then identify at-risk patients who have a history of drug dependency before they prescribe to them.
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A Quick Lesson on the Functions of Insurance and Risk Management
Insurance has some primary functions and various secondary functions and limitations as well. Let’s take a look
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Declarative Programming – a new way of App design for Apple platforms
Declarative programming is the way of describing logic with self-explanation which makes anyone understand the code easily. This helps with code readability and the knowledge transfer becomes easier.
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Bugsnag- An Automated Crash Discernment Platform for Web and Mobile Applications
Even with the most carefully written code, errors can sometimes still slip through. When such errors occur, it’s important to know about them quickly. That’s where error reporting tools like Bugsnag helps us. Get notified about errors quickly!
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Insurance Fraud Detection — all that you need to know
As per the law of Indemnity- one of the basic principles of Insurance states about the claims and by nature of the insurance, it is a vital part of the contract obliged by any insurance provider to compensate the Insured for a covered loss or policy event.
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The Relevance of INCO Terminology in Marine Cargo Insurance
The global economy has resulted in a manifold increase in the volume of international trade. This has further resulted in a manifold increase in…
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Edge Computing and IoT: Diving into their relationship
Edge Computing has pushed intelligence to an end in the domain of IoT. Data-handling operations are…
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Emotional Design in Mobile Applications
Emotions are instrumental. They place a central role in the human ability to perceive, understand and to learn about the world at large.
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Textile Industry: Knit IoT for Improved Results
The textile industry faces increasingly tough times as labor costs deepen and customer expectations evolve. Today’s digitally empowered customers…
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Five questions to ask when choosing an IoT Provider for your Textile Manufacturing Company
Given the rapid adoption of IoT in manufacturing, becoming IoT-ready is no longer a nice-to-have but need-to-have for textile manufacturing…
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The Keys to building a Compliant & Secure Healthcare Application
When the quality of software directly impacts someone’s life, the role of QA becomes that much more crucial.
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Materialize is Good, but is it better than Bootstrap or Semantic-UI?
If you are a developer who is confused about the right front-end framework to choose, this article will guide you in picking the framework based…
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Big Data Analytics & Healthcare – a challenging yet ideal combination
Big data has fundamentally changed the way healthcare organizations manage, analyze, and leverage data.
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Cyber Security: When Prevention is better than the Cure
Patient data is incredibly lucrative as it provides one of the highest payoffs to hackers on the..
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Communication and Information Technology in the Reinsurance Business
Reinsurance provides financial stability to insurance companies by increasing their solvency.
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Here’s why Web Security is the Need of the Hour
Web security is essential for all websites especially for websites that are dealing with..
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Kubernetes Breaks Cloud Barriers
Kubernetes, an open-source Orchestration software is developed in the Google platform and it..
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Industrial IoT: A money spinner for textile manufacturers
As manufacturing enterprises actively seek innovation to compete effectively and differentiate themselves amidst digital disruption, IoT…
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Let’s now Automate App Store Connect with APIs!
App Store Connect API Now Apple provides an App Store Connect API for developers to automate..
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Healthcare PHI Interoperability & Management
The COVID-19 crisis has exacerbated the hiccups in legacy healthcare platforms and technologies..
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Insight on when to use Docker
Understanding what Docker is: Docker is a tool that permits developers, system admins to simply..
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Artificial Intelligence as a Service
In the recent world, the IT industry evolves mostly with buzzing tech words like Artificial..
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Becoming a Nimble and Dexterous Developer using WebSockets in NodeJS
WebSockets: An Introduction: WebSocket is a protocol that provides a way for the client..
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The Subtle Intricacies of Testing & Finding Issues That Matter
Any software application should be viewed as a box. A quality assurance professional should play..
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‘Risking’ it With the Next Wave of RPA
Erica works for a big bank. She is a chatty assistant who helps the customers of Bank of America with their queries. Sometimes, she helps them…
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Powering Up Empty States!
Empty states play a central role to engage, retain, and delight users at critical moments. In the..
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What’s driving Blockchain forward?
Blockchain is a much talked about technology and as it is not currently used in its full potential, there..
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What does it take to be an Agile Tester?
In the agile testing methodology, the role of a quality assurance professional is much more dynamic..
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6 ways to reduce Cloud Application Deployment Costs
Cost optimization is a pressing concern for organizations that are looking to deploy..
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Effective and Efficient Cross-Browser/Device Testing
When we develop and deliver a web application or a mobile app, do we know on which browser,..
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Insight into the Next Generation IpadOS
iPadOS — 14 In the World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) 2020, Apple..
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How can Machine Learning Transform E-Commerce?
AI and Machine Learning are mainstream these days, and leading organizations like Apple and Google..
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Deep Linking in Mobile Platforms
Mobile devices have become our third hand in day-to-day life. We do everything on our mobile..
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Shift Left — An approach towards Continuous Quality Improvement
A majority of the software development teams across the world are adopting Agile..
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5 Ways Artificial Intelligence shapes the Future of Test Automation
Introduction: AI and ML are transforming our daily lives in many ways. Many of the business..
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MQTT in IoT Communication
MQTT — Message Queuing Telemetry Transport protocol was founded by Andy Stanford-Clark..
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An Insight into Payoda’s Experience in IoT Quality Assurance
At Payoda we analyze, test, observe, report, regress, ensure and certify the correlative behavior of..