What is Cucumber? Cucumber is a BDD automation test environment which describes acceptance criteria. BDD develops scenarios under the feature file with or without examples using ‘Gherkin’. Gherkin provides the ‘Domain Specific Language’ and a simple way to understand between technical and non-technical members. It’s described in ‘Simple English’ that anyone can understand. Behavioral Driven Development (BDD) is associated with the test-driven development. It is a way to communicate example based software among the developers, […]

What is Scalable Web Apps? The rapid growth of the world of information has made applications which handles that information to be large, complex, slow and resource hungry. Therefore, the main focus of today’s age of application developers is to find a way to tackle many or all of these issues. One of the popular approaches currently used is making Web applications scalable ( Scalable Web Apps ).     Scalability is in essence, the […]

Accessible through an extensive and elaborate API, Elasticsearch can power extremely fast searches that support your data discovery applications. What Is Big Data? Data management for organizations of all sizes has shifted from an important competency to a critical differentiator that can determine market winners and “has beens”. Fortune 1000 companies and government bodies are starting to benefit from the innovations of the web pioneers. These organizations are defining new initiatives and re-evaluating their existing […]

Node.js is a buzzword in the software development industry and it has become a trend to develop enterprise level applications using Node. Some of the big companies are already converting their applications to Node.js now. Therefore it seems high time to start looking in to Node.js.   What is Node.js Node.js is an open source JavaScript runtime environment for developing server-side networking applications using JavaScript. It was developed by Ryan Dahl in 2009. It uses […]

Business Intelligence (BI) is like an iceberg; below the waterline is what you cannot easily see and which is the mass of data that is relevant and important for your business. Rising over the water is more readily seen and recognised and it is the BI platform for analysis and reporting. So simply BI is about having the right data, at the right time, to enable the right decisions. Figure 1: BI as an Iceberg […]

What is AWS ? – AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a comprehensive, evolving cloud computing platform provided by Amazon.com. Cloud computing is gaining immense popularity among today’s business needs. Many organizations use cloud computing directly or indirectly as a replacement for traditional on-site alternatives As, It adds a number of benefits to the business. This article describes an overview of cloud computing, its key attributes, how these concepts are used in Amazon web services, Amazon […]

What is NFC? It is a short-range wireless technology that allows communication between NFC-enabled objects. In the present world, we have come to a level of technology where we can transfer information with less human interaction. And when it comes to communication, there are many methods like Bluetooth, QR, iBeacons, barcodes, etc. In the business world, most marketers are using QR code technology to promote their products or websites taking into consideration some of the […]

Lean startup is a loosely formed work-in-progress methodology that covers many aspects of startups such as customer development, business model design, measurement and agile engineering. “Storyboard of the lean startup introduction” youtube video by StoryboardItsBetter Today, ‘entrepreneurship’ and ‘startups’ are two words that are commonly heard. Stories about entrepreneurs who excel in businesses drive today’s youth, inspiring them to dream big and step in to the business world with new ideas and solutions. However, statistics […]

Today, we expect our software to work wherever we are and in any mobile or desktop device we use. As a result, IT organizations have to follow several different steps to meet these customer demands. DevOps aims to do just that by allowing organizations to produce and release high quality code better and faster. What is Devops? Most who are new to the term ‘DevOps’ tend to question whether it’s a culture? Is it a […]

The article describes how to create a functional Test Suite to validate the RESTful web services using SoapUI NG Pro. What is a RESTful web service? RESTful Web Services are REST architecture based web services. In REST Architecture everything is a resource. RESTful web services are lightweight, highly scalable and maintainable, commonly used to create APIs for web-based applications. SoapUI can be used extensively to test RESTful web services. While the SoapUI free version allows […]