DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
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• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
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Speakers:
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4. Mule is Has Advanced
Technologies
• SEDA
– Staged Event-Driven Architecture
• Java NIO
– Java New Input/Output
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5. SEDA
• SEDA decomposes a complex, event-driven software application into a set
of stages connected by queues
• This design avoids the high overhead associated with thread-based
concurrency models, and decouples event and thread scheduling from
application logic
• By performing admission control on each event queue, the service can be
well-conditioned to load, preventing resources from being overcommitted
when demand exceeds service capacity
• SEDA employs dynamic control to automatically tune runtime parameters
(such as the scheduling parameters of each stage) as well as to manage
load, for example, by performing adaptive load shedding
• Decomposing services into a set of stages also enables modularity and
code reuse, as well as the development of debugging tools for complex
event-driven applications
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6. Java NIO
• NIO is a collection of Java programming language APIs that
offer advanced features for intensive I/O operations
• NIO facilitates an implementations that can directly use the
most efficient operations of the underlying platform
• NIO includes:
– Buffers for data of primitive types
– Character set encoders and decoders
– A pattern-matching facility based on Perl-style regular expressions (in
package java.util.regex)
– Channels, a new primitive I/O abstraction
– A file interface that supports locks and memory mapping
– A multiplexed, non-blocking I/O facility for writing scalable servers
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7. Mule’s “Moves Things Around”
• Folder to folder
• Queue to queue
• Shared memory to shared memory
• Using different types of transports
• In a flexible way
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8. XML Pipeline
• An XML pipeline is a series of operation that
are performed on one or more XML files
• Examples include:
– validate
– transform
– prune (remove nodes)
– split (break a single XML file into many files)
– merge (join two or more files together)
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9. CRV Example
• Flow of XML document through approval
processes
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Submit
CRV
Deed
Matched
CRV
SSN
Stripped
CRV
Income
Tax
Audit
County
Audit
County
Approval
State
Audit
State
Approval
10. Decomposition
• Example of XML Operations used on CRV
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Validate Split
Remove
SSN
Element
Store
Modify
Value
Add
Element
Modify
Value
Add
Element
11. Declarative Approach
• Focus on specifying "What" not "How"
• Empower business analysis to write machine-
readable specifications
• Hide the "How" behind services with clear
interfaces (SOA)
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13. Universal Message Object (UMO)
• A UMO is a type of Java object that can
– receive events "from anywhere"
– send events
• UMO Components are usually your business objects.
They are components that execute business logic on
an incoming event
• UMO are standard JavaBeans (containers)
• There is no Mule-specific code in your components
• Mule handles all routing and transformation of
events to and from your objects based on the
configuration of your component
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14. Transport
• A transport or "provider", is a set of objects
that add support to Mule to handle a specific
kind of transport or protocol
• Examples
– the "Email Provider" enables Mule to send and
receive messages via the SMTP, POP and IMAP
protocols
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15. Connector
• A connector is the object that sends and
receives messages on behalf of an endpoint.
• Connectors are bundled as part of specific
transports or providers.
• For example, the FileConnector can read
and write file system files.
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16. Router
• A router is the object that do something with
messages once they have been received by a
connector, or prior to being sent out by the
connector
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17. Filter
• A filter optionally filters incoming or outgoing
messages that are coming into or going out from a
connector.
• For example, the File Provider comes with a
FilenameWildcardFilter that restricts which
files are read by the connector based on file name
patterns. For example only files with the .xml
extension can be routed.
• Filters are used in conjunction with Routers.
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18. Transformer
• A transformer optionally changes incoming or
outgoing messages in some way
• This is usually done to make the message
format useable by a downstream function
• Examples:
– the ByteArrayToString transformer converts byte
arrays into String objects.
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19. Mule Event Flow
• The nine stages of a
mule event
– first 2 – inbound
– middle 4 –
component
– last 2 – outbound
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Endpoint
(Message Receiver)
Endpoint
(Message Dispatcher)
Inbound Router
Outbound Router
Inbound Transformer
Outbound Transformer
Interceptor
Service Invocation
Interceptor
Inbound
Component
Outbound
Optional Step
20. Message Receiver Endpoint
• Some event triggers a
message flow
– A file being written into a
folder
– A message arriving on a
message queue
– A record in a database
– Data written to a socket
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Endpoint
(Message Dispatcher)
Inbound Router
Outbound Router
Inbound Transformer
Outbound Transformer
Interceptor
Service Invocation
Interceptor
Endpoint
(Message Receiver)
21. Inbound Router
• The inbound router is the fist step in a
message. Functions typically
performed by an inbound router
– Filtering
– Remove duplicate messages
– Matching messages
– Aggregation (combining)
– Re-sequence data
– Forwarding
• See also
– IdempotentReceiver
– CorrolationAggregator
– CorrelationResequencer
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Endpoint
(Message Dispatcher)
Inbound Router
Outbound Router
Inbound Transformer
Outbound Transformer
Interceptor
Service Invocation
Interceptor
Endpoint
(Message Receiver)
22. Interceptor
• Used to intercept message flow
into your service component
• Used trigger monitor/events or
interrupt the flow of the message
• Example: an authorization
interceptor could ensure that the
current request has the correct
credentials to invoke the service.
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Endpoint
(Message Dispatcher)
Inbound Router
Outbound Router
Inbound Transformer
Outbound Transformer
Service Invocation
Interceptor
Endpoint
(Message Receiver)
Interceptor
23. Inbound Transformer
• If the inbound data
is not in the correct
format for the
service it must be
transformed at this
point
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Endpoint
(Message Receiver)
Endpoint
(Message Dispatcher)
Inbound Router
Outbound Router
Outbound Transformer
Interceptor
Service Invocation
Interceptor
Inbound Transformer
24. Service Invocation
• The actual service is
performed
• In mule, this is generally a
Java object
• Service invocation can also
be a "pass through"
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Endpoint
(Message Receiver)
Endpoint
(Message Dispatcher)
Inbound Router
Outbound Router
Outbound Transformer
Interceptor
Interceptor
Inbound Transformer
Service Invocation
25. Outbound Router
• Dispatching the data
to all the relevant
endpoints
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Endpoint
(Message Receiver)
Endpoint
(Message Dispatcher)
Inbound Router
Outbound Transformer
Interceptor
Interceptor
Inbound Transformer
Service Invocation
Outbound Router
26. Built-in Router Classes
Inbound Outbound Response
Idempotent Receiver Filtering Outbound Router Response Aggregator
Selective Consumer Recipient List
Aggregator Multicasting Router
Resequencer Chaining Router
Forwarding Consumer Message Splitter
Filtering List Message
Splitter
Filtering Xml Message
Splitter
Exception Based Router
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27. Outbound Transformer
• Any transformations that needs to
be done on the message after a
service has been performed on the
message can be executed before it is
put into the endpoint
• See Also
– EnvelopeInterceptor
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Endpoint
(Message Receiver)
Endpoint
(Message Dispatcher)
Inbound Router
Interceptor
Interceptor
Inbound Transformer
Service Invocation
Outbound Router
Outbound Transformer
29. Omitted From Examples for Brevity
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE mule-configuration PUBLIC "-//MuleSource //DTD
mule-configuration XML V1.0//EN"
"http://mule.mulesource.org/dtds/mule-
configuration.dtd">
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32. Only Moving XML Files
<inbound-router>
<endpoint address="file:///c:/mule-class/in">
<filter pattern="*.xml"
className=
"org.mule.providers.file.filters.FilenameWildcardFilter"/>
</endpoint>
</inbound-router>
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Add the filter line to only move files with the extension
"*.xml". If you add a file "foobar.txt to the input folder it
will not be moved.
33. Keeping the Name The Same
<outbound-router>
<router
className="org.mule.routing.outbound.OutboundPassThroughRouter">
<endpoint
address=
"file:///c:/mule-class/out?outputPattern=$[ORIGINALNAME]"
/>
</router>
</outbound-router>
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Add the outputPattern parameter to keep the output
name the same as the input.
34. Happy Path and Exceptions
• By default, error free documents follow a central path known
as the "happy path"
• Documents that have errors may be handled in different ways
(rejected, warnings etc.)
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Start StopStep 1 Step 2 Step 3
Stop Stop Stop
35. Exception Handling
• Mule has a special way of handling non-happy path processing. This
is called an "Exception Strategy" but is it really just and exception
path and there is very little strategy involved.
• There are three places you can associate an exception strategy
– connector
– component
– model (set for all components in a model)
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37. Sample XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Data>
<Element1>Hello World!</Element1>
<Element2>String</Element2>
<Element3>String</Element3>
<DansInvalidDataElement>This is Dans invalid data element</DansInvalidDataElement>
</Data>
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XML Schema validation will generate an error message
when it gets to the fourth invalid data element:
Given the following XML Schema file:
38. Validating against an XML Schema
<outbound-router>
<router className="org.mule.routing.outbound.FilteringXmlMessageSplitter">
<endpoint
address="file:///c:/mule-class/out?outputPattern=$[ORIGINALNAME]"/>
<properties>
<property name="validateSchema" value="true"/>
<property name="externalSchemaLocation"
value="file:///c:/mule-class/labs/07-validate/my-
schema.xsd"/>
</properties>
</router>
</outbound-router>
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To validate the XML Schema, just add two properties:
1) tell it to validate the document
2) tell it what file to use and where to find it
39. Error Message
document : cvc-complex-type.2.4.d: Invalid content was found
starting with element 'DansInvalidDataElement'. No child
element is expected at this point.
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This error message is generated on the Mule console
when an invalid data element is found. But what should
we do with it? How do we redirect it to the appropriate
user?
40. Thank You!
Please contact me for more information:
• Enterprise Service Bus
• Enterprise Integration
• Metadata Management
• Metadata Registries
• Service Oriented Architectures
• Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse
• Semantic Web
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