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Beyond Cost Reduction: How RPA helps retain your best talent by reducing process debt?

December 8, 2022December 8, 2022Business Insights, Future, software, User Experienceautomation, Business Process, Compliance, Customer experience, Efficiency and Productivity, Employee Retention, Human Capital, Process Debt, ROI, RPA, Software Bots, Technology Debt

Reading Time: 4 minutes Introduction Organizations have come a long way using various application systems built on Information technologies and will continue to build more systems by exploiting every new technology. However, obsolescence and lack of systematic adoption to new processes create process debt or overhead to the organization. This is due to multiple dependencies on specific (older) technologies, specific individuals, and statutory compliance. This burden increases over time Continue Reading

Singleton Pattern: The One of a Kind Design Pattern

January 27, 2022January 27, 2022software, Studio-Scala, Tech BlogsDesign Pattern, ScalaDesignPattern, singleton objects

Reading Time: 3 minutes Hey, coders in this blog we are going to talk about Singleton Pattern, and believe me, Singleton Pattern is one of the easiest patterns among all the design patterns in terms of its class diagram. Singleton Pattern has an interesting mechanism in the way it is implemented. So before implementing the singleton pattern in our code first let’s dive into its definition which states that Continue Reading

Opensource Software vs Free Software vs Freeware Software

December 1, 2021December 1, 2021software, Tech Blogsbetter software, opensource, software, Software craftsmanship, software development

Reading Time: 3 minutes In this article, we will look at the differences between open-source software vs free software vs freeware software. While growing up and trying out various software on our computer, we often come across the terms like free software, freeware, opensource, etc but we never pay much attention to it. A lot of people think that freeware software is the same as free software and they Continue Reading

Introduction to Spock: A Unit Testing Framework

November 19, 2020November 19, 2020Java, software, Testing, Testing, Tutorial, Unit Testingbehaviour driven development, groovy, java, jUnit, Testing, Unit Testing

Reading Time: 4 minutes This article talks about the Spock framework. It’s a framework for writing unit test cases in BDD style.

The 12 Factor App

October 25, 2020October 25, 2020application design, Architecture, software#Singapore, 12 factor app, Design, Knoldus Singapore, singapore, singaporetech, software development

Reading Time: 4 minutes This blog will explain the principles of the 12 factor app. These principle basically eliminate the unnecessary ache required while building your application. It makes the development process smooth, thus resulting in a robust and reliable application. 1. Codebase: A twelve-factor app states that a single app should not have multiple codebases, otherwise it is a distributed system instead of an app. Also, multiple apps Continue Reading

Flyway with SBT

March 19, 2020March 19, 2020Database, software, SQL, Studio-ScalaDatabase, Flyway, Migration, MySql, Scala Libraries, singapore, singaporetech, technology

Reading Time: 3 minutes flyway integration with sbt | Database migration

String functions in Java 11

March 10, 2020March 10, 2020Functional Programming, Java, software, Studio-Scala#java, Getting Started, Introduction, java11, learning, programming

Reading Time: 3 minutes This article talks about the string functions which were introduced as part of Java 11.

Integration of a DocuSign service in Scala

March 1, 2020March 18, 2020API's, Business Insights, DocuSign, software, Studio-Scala, Web, Web Application, Web Services, Web StandardDocuSign;, eSignature, scala, singapore, singaporetech

Reading Time: 2 minutes DocuSign is the leading eSignature solution firm. Its cloud-based platform for automating the agreement process enables more than 370,000 companies and hundreds of millions of users in over 180 countries to accelerates business and simplify life. DocuSign have a rich rest API interface and also have a SDK supports for many different languages like Java, C# , PHP etc. We can use these APIs to Continue Reading

TestNG Listners: ITestlistners in TestNG(Part 1)

January 20, 2020January 20, 2020Java, software, Testing, Testing

Reading Time: 3 minutes TestNG provides the @Listeners annotation which heedfully auricularly discerns every event that occurs in a selenium code. Listeners are activated either afore the test or after the test case. It is an interface that modifies the TestNG comportment. For example, when you are running a test case either through selenium or appium and suddenly a test case fails. We require a screenshot of the test Continue Reading

Program Increment – Day 1

October 28, 2019October 28, 2019Agile, Project Management, SAFe, Scaled Agile, Scrum, software, Studio-Scala, Tech Blogs, Tutorial

Reading Time: 4 minutes Effective execution of Program Increment is very essential to reap true benefits. In my previous blog, we have seen what Program Increment is all about and what are the main factors to be considered while planning a Program Increment. Let us see how effectively we can use 2 days. In this blog we will see how do we execute Program Increment Day 1 in detail Continue Reading

Program Increment and It’s Planning

October 23, 2019October 23, 2019Agile, Project Management, SAFe, Scaled Agile, Scrum, software, Studio-Scala, Tech Blogs, Test Automation Studio, Tutorial

Reading Time: 4 minutes SAFe is no Magic except for Program Increment Planning. No event is as powerful in SAFe as Program Increment Planning. PI planning sets the platform for cadence for ART. In this blog we will see how to prepare for an effective Program Increment Planning session. Next Blog we will cover Day wise activities during the PI session. With large audience of 100 + people working Continue Reading

Agile Release Trains – ART – Organisation and Roles

September 22, 2019September 22, 2019Agile, Project Management, SAFe, Scaled Agile, Scrum, software, Studio-Scala, Test Automation Studio, Tutorial

Reading Time: 4 minutes Agile Release Trains are the heart of Essential SAFe in the similar way Essential SAFe configuration is the heart of the Framework. It is the simplest starting point for implementation. In this blog, we are going to talk about Agile Release Trains (ART). We will see how Agile Release Trains in itself is an organisation and also see important roles within ART. It describes the Continue Reading

Essential SAFe – “Implementation Starting Point”

September 18, 2019September 18, 2019Agile, Project Management, SAFe, Scaled Agile, Scrum, software, Studio-Scala, Test Automation Studio, Tutorial

Reading Time: 4 minutes In one of my initial blogs, we touch based on the 4 configuration that SAFe provides. These configurations can fit from small organisations to large enterprises. It is flexible enough for organisations to leverage to their specific needs. In this specific blog and the following blogs, we would deep dive into Essential SAFe. It is the starting point for SAFe implementation in the organisation. Essential Continue Reading