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Java 9: Getting started with Jshell in JAVA 9

Reading Time: 3 minutes Java Shell tool (JShell) has been introduced as a part of JAVA 9. It is a Read-Evaluate-Print Loop (REPL), which evaluates declarations, statements, and expressions as they are entered and immediately shows the results. The tool is run from the command line. In this blog, we will learn about this interactive tool that can be used for learning the Java programming language and prototyping Java Continue Reading

Integration of a DocuSign service in Scala

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

Still not switch to HTTP/2?

Reading Time: 4 minutes Hi folks! Your website doesn’t reload fast and takes more time to get response . Then this is perfect time to move to HTTP/2. The relatively new HTTP/2 protocol speeds up page load significantly and is widely supported by all major browsers and servers. You should be using it right now. What is HTTP? HTTP is based on the Client/Server model. Client/Server model can be explained Continue Reading

MachineX: Sentiment analysis with NLTK and Machine Learning

Reading Time: 9 minutes In this blog, we are going to see how we can NLP library NLTK for sentiment analysis. Sentiment Analysis is a common NLP task nowadays. Every data scientist or a person working on data science needs to perform. Introduction to NLP Natural Language processing Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a subfield of artificial intelligence that helps computers understand human language. NLP enables machines to derive Continue Reading

Apache Spark: Tricks to Increase Job Performance

Reading Time: 2 minutes Apache Spark is quickly adopting the Real-world and most of the companies like Uber are using it in their production. Spark is gaining its popularity in the market as it also provides you with the feature of developing Streaming Applications and doing Machine Learning, which helps companies get better results in their production along with proper analysis using Spark. Although companies are using Spark in Continue Reading

Decision Making: Advocacy vs Inquiry

Reading Time: 2 minutes Advocacy and Inquiry are two key communication behaviors with critical implications for interpersonal, group, and organizational effectiveness. Advocacy refers to stating one’s views; inquiry refers to asking questions. This article discusses the features of both productive and unproductive advocacy and inquiry, how the quality and balance of these two behaviors impacts learning, and the relevance of these two behaviors for facilitating conversation, managing emotions, and Continue Reading

Reactive java combining Mono(s)

Reactive Java: combining Mono(s)

Reading Time: 4 minutes Reactive programming has been a good to go approach with the microservices architecture. Here we will see how it can be achieved using spring web flux MONO Api and what could go wrong if we do not consider the basics of the reactive environment.

MachineX: Anticipate Customer behavior for Retailing

Reading Time: 4 minutes In this blog, we are going to see the power of Customer behavior Anticipation and how it can derive the success of the retail sector. Nowadays, Machine learning is playing an important in the success of different sectors. we can talk about Healthcare, Finance, Manufacturing, Agriculture, now even in Education. Retail is one of the sectors, which is getting huge benefits from machine learning and Continue Reading

Launching any application using Appium

Reading Time: 2 minutes In the last blog we learned how to identify different elements using Appium (https://blog.knoldus.com/finding-elements-using-appium-inspector/) . In this blog we will see how we can launch any application using Appium. It is not always possible to get the APK of the application that you want to test using Appium. For example, if we want to test any system application such as the messages app of any Continue Reading

What lies in Selenium waits?

Reading Time: 2 minutes What are waits? And why do we need waits in Selenium? Making an application grow might be one of the pain points for the industry. When it comes to QAing an application via automation, Selenium waits play a key role! If there is a time lag, we can use these commands while executing our test script or doing any kind of dynamic testing. While a Continue Reading

Spring Interceptors: How to use them correctly?

Reading Time: 2 minutes Hi folks! we’ll focus on understanding the Spring Interceptors and how to use it correctly. What is Spring interceptors When a request is sent to spring controller, it will have to pass through Spring Interceptors (0 or more) before being processed by Controller. Spring Interceptor is only applied to requests that are sending to a Controller. Spring Interceptor – HandlerInterceptor preHandle(): This method is used to intercept the request before Continue Reading

Cypress: How to retry failed test cases and log the console error on command line?

Reading Time: 3 minutes In our previous blog “How to load chrome extension in cypress.io” we explained How to get an unpacked version of an extension from the chrome web store? How to load chrome extension in our application under test? What are the related configuration changes needed to load an extension in cypress? Here we will discuss: How to add retry ability in our test scripts? How to Continue Reading

Mindset: Fixed Mindset vs Growth Mindset

Reading Time: 6 minutes In a fixed mindset, people believe their qualities are fixed traits and therefore cannot change. … They also believe that talent alone leads to success, and effort is not required. Alternatively, in a growth mindset, people have an underlying belief that their learning and intelligence can grow with time and experience.