Google Sheets API Tutorial: The Basics You Need to Get Going The Google Sheets API enables us to read, write, and update a spreadsheet’s data. We can also use it to render user interfaces (UIs) by fetching data from Google Sheets, which will then serve as a database. The Google Sheets API helps developers import…
A Guide To Events In The Google Calendar API Google Calendar is one of the most popular calendar apps out there. There are also beneficial Google Calendar APIs, through which we can programmatically generate events. This is helpful in many scenarios, in which we can create, delete, and get events for Google Calendar. In this post…
Test Case Design: a Guide for QA Engineers With Examples To begin a software project, engineers should plan and document tests within the project’s scope. This is part of a test case design. More specifically, a test case design is a document that includes the test’s scope, the test strategy, the test environment, the software pieces…
Trello API Limits, 5 Best Practices to Avoid Rate Limiting Third-party APIs like the Trello API can make life easier for developers and their organizations in many ways. For instance, teams that use Trello can make use of the API to automate repetitive tasks like adding new members to boards. It’s even possible for developers…
How to Use MockWebServer to Mock and Test HTTP Calls Testing is a significant part of the software development process for several reasons. For example, by testing our code, we can verify each function’s integrity and how to improve it. However, when our software relies on APIs to receive and send data, testing these API…
How to: Comprehensive Monitoring for WordPress Sites There are few website-building solutions on the internet as tested as WordPress. And brands like TechCrunch and The New Yorker wouldn’t be hosted on WordPress if traffic was an issue. But here’s the thing: WordPress is self-managed. As a result, you as an individual or organization using it for…
How to Click a Button in Selenium: A Step-by-Step Guide Automation is the key to improvement in software engineering, the automobile industry, and the manufacturing industry. Different programming languages and technologies enable the automation process in the software industry, and one such software package is Selenium. Selenium is an open-source framework that automates browser actions…
Test Environments – The Tracks for Agile Release Trains An Agile Release Train (or Enterprise Release Management) methodology is better than the alternative chaos of different project teams running off in different directions. This approach leads to competition for shared resources, misaligned priorities, and delays due to mismanaged dependencies & relationships with other teams. If implemented…
GitHub Search API, An Introduction With Examples GitHub is probably the most loved software used by developers all over the world. Besides code collaboration, it brings in tons of useful features, such as issue tracking and code management. And if you’ve loved what it offers, you’ll absolutely love using its raw APIs to build great…
How to Create a Docker Image From a Container In this article on Dataset’s blog, you can get a step-by-step instructions on how to create a Docker container, modify its internal state, and then save the container as an image. This is really handy when you’re working out how an image should be constructed because you…
Deployment Strategies: 6 Explained in Depth For every software development firm, there comes a time when their software will need to be changed or upgraded. It can come in the form of a total version change or fixing a bug found in the original version.Now that the new version is ready, here comes the real…
What is Kubernetes? Everything You Need to Know Containers have become the norm for creating standard applications. Clients and engineers don’t like downtime in the production environment, and recently, several organizations have adopted containers as a solution. The desire for scalable, high-performing applications that don’t experience downtime has led many to orchestration technologies like Kubernetes. Kubernetes…
Spring Broken Object Level Authorization Guide: Examples and Prevention If a malicious user gains access to functionality that only system administrators should have access to, there can be dire consequences. This post is about a specific type of vulnerability called broken object level authorization, or BOLA. This happens when an attacker gains access to API methods that…
Spring XML External Entities Guide: Examples and Prevention XML is a markup language that we use to define and categorize data. Data stored in XML format can move between multiple servers or between a client and a server. Once a server receives an XML input, it parses it via an XML parser. XML external entities are basically…
xUnit vs. NUnit Demystified: A Comprehensive Explanation Getting started with unit testing can seem like a daunting task. There’s plenty to learn, such as what unit testing is in the first place and why it’s valuable, what the best practices are when writing tests, and which tools to choose. We’ve already published a post covering…