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Calatrava

We have previously been skeptical of claims of reusable code 

working across platforms. Our experience with many tools 

in the market has been mixed and we advise caution to our 

clients who are looking at these types of solutions. Taking an 

approach that carefully navigates these dangerous waters, 

we feel Calatrava is worth evaluating for mobile application 

development. The framework neatly follows the separation 

of business and presentation logic, maximising reuse where 

there is commonality, and providing native access where 

speed or device-specific idioms are to be followed.

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Silverback

Silverback captures not only the screen during 

a test, but also records the face and voice of the user. This can 

be invaluable in sharing rich test experiences with the wider 

development team.

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Jasmine paired with Node.js

We have long thought of JavaScript as a first class language, 

and have been keenly following the development of testing 

tools in that space. The cream of the crop for out-of-browser 

testing is currently Jasmine. Jasmine paired with Node.js is 

the go-to choice for robust testing of both client- and serverside JavaScript.

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rake

Of all the build tools and languages we use across our projects, 

the one we keep coming back to is Rake. Rake is a beautiful, 

simple and powerful build language implemented as an 

internal Domain-Specific Language on Ruby. Ruby’s ability to 

run across several virtual-machine platforms means that Rake 

is equally available - while leaving open the option to utilize 

more language-specific tools for some tasks. Finding a similar 

combination of elegance and flexibility is difficult regardless 

of your platform, so we recommend trying Rake for Java and 

.Net projects.

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Semantic monitorin

Development teams typically produce tests that specify and 

validate application behavior, but stop running them once the 

application goes into production. This is a missed opportunity. 

Semantic monitoring uses your tests to continuously 

evaluate your application, combining test-execution and realtime monitoring. With micro-services, and similar fine-grained 

architectural approaches, it is increasingly important to test 

their interaction at run-time. Incorporating the validation of 

consumer-driven contracts into a monitoring facility is one 

way to approach this. While still evolving, we see great 

promise in the merging of two separate but important 

verification schemes.

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logs as data

Log files generated by web servers, databases, networking 

infrastructure, and back-end systems are a valuable source 

of operational and behavioral data for a business. In the 

past, these files were mostly viewed as a source of diagnostic 

information in the case of failure, but with lowered cost of 

storage, and availability of tools such as Splunk for indexing 

and retrieving millions of events, they can also be a source 

of customer insights. Treating logs as data and storing 

complete logs instead of just collecting predefined metrics 

provides a means to answer novel questions that a business 

could not have previously anticipated.

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