Our weekly roundup is short this week, with one great post from our author, Carlos Schults, below. How To Use Assert In JUnit With Examples Assertions are at the heart of unit testing. They’re crucial in giving unit tests their “self-validating” characteristic, without which they’d be practically useless. In this post from Carlos Schults on…
Using PreparedStatement in JDBC With Examples The JD®BC (Java database connectivity) API defines a standard interface for Java applications to connect to different relational database (RDBMS) implementations. Most popular relational database vendors provide JDBC-compliant drivers for their databases. The JDBC API provides the Statement object to execute queries, updates, and DDL statements on data in a…
Updating CocoaPods: A Step-By-Step Guide CocoaPods is a dependency manager for iOS and macOS development that simplifies the process of incorporating external libraries into your project. Using CocoaPods, you can quickly add and manage third-party libraries and frameworks without worrying about the complexities of integrating them manually. In this post on Waldo’s blog, Juan Reyes…
How to Use wp_redirect in WordPress You can find the wp_redirect function in the wp-includes/pluggable.php file with several other helper functions. The job of this function is to redirect your WordPress site to another page. For example, you can use this function to redirect from one page to another based on some condition or your…
Defining NestJS and How to Get Started Because of the rapid growth of JavaScript and TypeScript frameworks and libraries, a huge selection of packages is available through popular package management systems such as Node Package Manager (npm). Some packages are created to specifically address one or two particular issues. However, others may try to recreate existing…
A Comprehensive Guide to BigQuery Data Types How computers and applications interact with data (inputs and outputs) depends on their data types. A data type is a classification that governs how compilers and virtually all programming languages collect, store, and interpret data to define events properly. Thus, a comprehensive understanding of the various data types…
Augmented Analytics and How It Can Help In today’s fast-paced business environment, data is more important than ever. With the rise of big data, organizations are struggling to keep up with the sheer volume of information at their disposal. Traditional analytics methods are no longer sufficient to uncover valuable insights from all this data, which…
Guide to Using XcodeBenchmark and Benchmarking XCode Builds There are many ways to identify and diagnose issues with the performance of your workflow and how it affects your build times. For example, you can take a more global approach and examine the raw performance of your computer. Or you can go more granular and work…
A Guide to Using XCTestCase for Tests One of the most critical aspects of software development is testing. It helps to ensure that a software application works as expected and that any changes made to the code do not break existing functionality. One way to perform testing in iOS applications is by using the XCTest…
How to Use Mockito to Mock a Generic Class Mockito is a popular Java library that allows you to create mock objects for testing purposes. Mocking is a technique that lets you replace the functionality of an object or class with a simulated version, which can help test how your code interacts with other components.…
How to Implement PromiseKit in Swift Apps Promises are one of the best ways to handle asynchronous code. The best example of asynchronous code is API making a call to some endpoint and getting the data. Now, these calls are the basis of the modern internet. This is how Amazon’s website receives all product data from…
Selenium vs Cucumber: The Differences and Which to Use Selenium and Cucumber are two tools that software developers use to execute tests. Both help find bugs in the software before releasing it to customers. However, it may seem difficult for developers to choose between these two tools, especially if they want to use a more…
How to Create a Slider in SwiftUI: A Detailed Guide What is SwiftUI? Put simply, it’s the evolution of the UI design standards that Apple created specifically to work with their Swift language infrastructure. SwiftUI is the Apple ecosystem’s new instrument for building app user interfaces using code. Furthermore, it contains a language that is…
Calabash vs. Appium: How Do They Compare? In this post from Nabendu Biswas on Waldo’s blog, we’re going to learn about the mobile testing frameworks Calabash and Appium. There’s quite a bit of difference between both of them. Calabash is used mainly for acceptance testing, whereas Appium is used for automation testing. We’ll briefly discuss the two…
Nonfunctional Testing: an Introductory Guide Tests represent an extremely important step in the software development process, as they aim to validate if an application is working correctly and if it meets the specified requirements. In this context, we can apply several techniques at different times and in different ways to validate the main aspects of the…