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What is Big Data and How does it work?

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What is Data:   Data are basic values or facts .Computers use many different types of data stored in digital format , such as text numbers and multimedia. What is big data:   Big Data basically refers to huge volume of data that cannot be stored and processed using the traditional approach within the given time frame.  The next big question that comes to your mind is how huge this data should should be in order to be classified as big data. There is a lot of misconception while referring the term Big Data. We usually use the Big Data to refer to the data that is either in GigaByte or TeraByte or PetaBytes or ExaBytes or anything that is larger than this size.  This does not defines the term big data completely even a small amount of data can be referred to as big data depending on the context it is being used. let me take an 2 examples and try to explain it to you and then explain it usage of b...

Internet of Things (IOT) - What is actually IOT ?

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By now you may heard internet of things(IOT), which sounds interesting but what does the internet of things actually.In this blog post, let me explain the internet of things in very simple way. So once your read this post, easily understand what is IOT and purpose.          What is Internet Of Things?   IOT is simply connecting all the surrounding smart devices(things) to internet.These devices use sensors and actuators to communicate with each their across the internet. But let us know some basic terms: 1.Smart Device: Any mechanical or electronic device that can intelligent decisions on its own.Look at the below image. Smart device can be any of  the below. 2.Sensor - A small chip that senses the surrounding activities.                                          3.Actuator -Another small chip that responds to the sensed activities....

Test Automation overview

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What is testing?  Testing is the process of finding bugs in software application is called Testing.It helps in validating and verifying software applications or product meets the technical and business requirements.  What is Manual testing?  Manual testing is also called as Eye-Ball Testing. Manual software testing is performed by any human manually opens the application and access the screens, trying various usage and input combinations , comparing the results to the expected result and record their understanding/testing result. Manual tests are repeated often during the development cycles for application code changes and some other situations like multiple operating environments and hardware configurations.  What is Automation testing?   The most critical approach to reduce time and boost the quality of testing is the software test automation process. In other word, Automation testing uses automation tools to write and execute test case...

How to connect ALM from Excel VBA

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Open test architecture is one type of API which is integrated with ALM. Through excel VBA , ALM can be connected. While working in projects , we may be face a time consuming activities like generating reports,Exporting results,modifying set of values,Custom graphs in Test plan or Test lab . And also every time generating report we might need to open and generate the report. To accelerate these activities , ALM has a API , using that we can automate the ALM application as you wish.I am going to write a serious of posts for this ALM automation using Vb script. Each post once activity will be there such as connect to ALM, fetch data from Test plan etc. In this post first we will start with how connect the ALM through vb script ,  Configuration details and Code. OTA API DLL for corrsponding version should be downloaded from HP website and same should be installed in your machine. Once installed that , now we can able to connect ALM OTA library from any programming language whic...