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Free Recorded Webinars Watch & learn - ReQtest

Watch these webinars to get actionable insights on the best practice standards, methods, processes, and tools that will help you to succeed in your projects.

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Android App Automation Framework

We review several open source frameworks as Android app developers can significantly accelerate their time-to-market through testing frameworks that automate crucial but repetitive tasks including those for functional (acceptance) and regression testing.

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MockK Framework for Unit Testing in Kotlin

Mocking is a process that is used in unit testing when the unit being tested has external dependencies. For example, a code that initiates the downloading of an image (and finally conveys success-failure on the UI) will have a dependency on a Network Module.

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12 Secrets of Digital Transformation

Regarding your company’s technical situation, you may feel you are out of time; there is no hope. But there’s a saying about crisis that I like to keep in mind: “Don’t confuse the end of an illusion with the beginning of a crisis.”

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12 Secrets of Digital Transformation

A third party can reinforce the message of change. Also, to the extent that you empower them, they can help you be more effective as a change agent within your company by establishing touchpoints with all the functions in your company who need to be influenced.

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12 Secrets of Digital Transformation

When you begin a transformation project, you will of course believe in its success. But let’s face it: that’s at an intellectual level. On an emotional level, truly disruptive change that transforms your company.

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It's Not About the Features

I bought a Tesla a little less than 2 months ago. My wife, who I think would admit to being a competitive person, responded by updating her preferred brand of Japanese sedan to their latest-and-greatest high-tech model this past weekend.

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Predictive Hiring

In this article, it's been described that how GlobalLogic is changing the approach to contracting with new technical specialists and IOT concepts. We want this process to be effective – not only for our customers, but also for engineers.

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Star Wars & Scrum Teams

The Development Team is a self-organizing system — a team of devops consulting services people who are qualified to make decisions independently. No one can tell the development team how many tasks they have to do during the iteration.

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6 Aspects of Retail Customer Experience in the New Normal

Many retailers that started their “digital first” initiatives prior to the pandemic will have a clear advantage over those who have not. These firms have taken the lead in retail software solution and are showing key characteristics of how customer experience has changed during the pandemic.

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In a galaxy far, far away, a group of unlikely heroes were building the most advanced product of their time: the Death Star. Ok, so Darth Vader’s imperial engineers aren’t exactly the heroes of the Star Wars saga.

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Thinking About Design Thinking

Design Thinking is often presented as the silver bullet that solves business problems while making customers happier. Advocates say Design Thinking is a perspective, a methodology, a role, even something you can get certified in.

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Design Innovation in Agriculture

Rapidly advancing technology and an increased rate of global convergence have transformed how the world produces and consumes products and services agriculture is no exception.

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Digital Refugees of the COVID-19 Crisis

Many of us are "digital citizens"; we are used to living in a technical world. Some of us were born into it, others migrated to it and became "naturalized," and a few are still around who helped create that world in the first place.

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Collaborating Autonomous Systems

This paradigm is very familiar to us from the natural world. Swarms of bees, colonies of ants, schools of fish, even planets in motion “collaborate” through the exchange of information (or forces) while remaining “autonomous” (capable of independent action) in isolation.

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Game Theory, Biology, and the Future of Business Travel

There is a thought experiment in game theory describing why competing businesses tend to “cluster.” They sometimes cluster physically, by locating close together—as in the case of gas stations, fast food restaurants or hotels.

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Enterprise Social Networking is NOT Social Networking

When I launched an enterprise social network (GLO) for GlobalLogic few years back, several of my friends and colleagues questioned me, asking the rationale of this initiative.