Testing the continuous delivery process @dev opsdays ams 2013Miel Donkers
This document discusses continuous delivery and the role of testing in that process. It defines continuous delivery as automating the process of getting software changes to users, including continuous building, testing, and deploying. The main steps are outlined as build, quality checks, testing across environments like integration, acceptance, and production. Testers play a key role in automating acceptance and regression testing across environments to provide fast feedback. Both automated and manual testing are needed, with a focus on automating repetitive tasks. Continuous delivery aims for predictable, high quality, and fast software releases.
Este resumen analiza los informes de varios equipos sobre sus visitas a diferentes lugares de la Ciudad de México. Un equipo visitó el zoológico de Chapultepec pero les faltó dar detalles sobre cómo llegar y mejorar la calidad de audio. Otro equipo visitó lugares en Coyoacán pero su video era difícil de seguir debido a los movimientos y la falta de iluminación. Un tercer equipo visitó el desierto de los Leones y el ex convento pero les faltó más información y hablar más fuerte.
1. The quality of USAID evaluation reports has generally improved over 2009-2012, with improvements in factors like use of multiple data collection methods and identification of limitations. However, some factors did not improve.
2. USAID evaluation reports excelled in basic characteristics but fell short in factors like distinguishing findings from conclusions/recommendations and including an evaluation specialist.
3. Overall quality of USAID evaluations was moderately high but could be improved by increasing involvement of evaluation specialists and guidance on new standards.
This document discusses vehicle tracking and recognition using optical flow estimation and discrete cosine transform with support vector machines (SVM). It proposes using optical flow to track vehicles on roads and SVM to recognize vehicle types. Optical flow is shown to be an effective technique for motion tracking with a tracking rate of 96%. The document also discusses using discrete cosine transform (DCT) for vehicle recognition from optical flow tracking.
The document is a sample question paper for an undergraduate general ability test. It consists of 100 multiple choice questions across 6 sub-tests assessing quantitative ability, communication ability, English comprehension, analytical ability, business domain knowledge, and thematic apperception. The questions provide 4 answer options with only one correct answer to select for each question. Sample questions are provided on topics ranging from mathematics to passages for comprehension.
Testing the continuous delivery process @dev opsdays ams 2013Miel Donkers
This document discusses continuous delivery and the role of testing in that process. It defines continuous delivery as automating the process of getting software changes to users, including continuous building, testing, and deploying. The main steps are outlined as build, quality checks, testing across environments like integration, acceptance, and production. Testers play a key role in automating acceptance and regression testing across environments to provide fast feedback. Both automated and manual testing are needed, with a focus on automating repetitive tasks. Continuous delivery aims for predictable, high quality, and fast software releases.
Este resumen analiza los informes de varios equipos sobre sus visitas a diferentes lugares de la Ciudad de México. Un equipo visitó el zoológico de Chapultepec pero les faltó dar detalles sobre cómo llegar y mejorar la calidad de audio. Otro equipo visitó lugares en Coyoacán pero su video era difícil de seguir debido a los movimientos y la falta de iluminación. Un tercer equipo visitó el desierto de los Leones y el ex convento pero les faltó más información y hablar más fuerte.
1. The quality of USAID evaluation reports has generally improved over 2009-2012, with improvements in factors like use of multiple data collection methods and identification of limitations. However, some factors did not improve.
2. USAID evaluation reports excelled in basic characteristics but fell short in factors like distinguishing findings from conclusions/recommendations and including an evaluation specialist.
3. Overall quality of USAID evaluations was moderately high but could be improved by increasing involvement of evaluation specialists and guidance on new standards.
This document discusses vehicle tracking and recognition using optical flow estimation and discrete cosine transform with support vector machines (SVM). It proposes using optical flow to track vehicles on roads and SVM to recognize vehicle types. Optical flow is shown to be an effective technique for motion tracking with a tracking rate of 96%. The document also discusses using discrete cosine transform (DCT) for vehicle recognition from optical flow tracking.
The document is a sample question paper for an undergraduate general ability test. It consists of 100 multiple choice questions across 6 sub-tests assessing quantitative ability, communication ability, English comprehension, analytical ability, business domain knowledge, and thematic apperception. The questions provide 4 answer options with only one correct answer to select for each question. Sample questions are provided on topics ranging from mathematics to passages for comprehension.
The document is a sample question paper for an undergraduate general ability test. It consists of 100 multiple choice questions across 6 sub-tests assessing quantitative ability, communication ability, English comprehension, analytical ability, business domain knowledge, and thematic apperception. The questions provide 4 answer options with only one correct answer to select for each question. Sample questions are provided on topics ranging from mathematics to passages for comprehension.
El documento trata sobre la física del sonido. Explica que el sonido es una onda mecánica que se propaga a través de un medio material y causa variaciones de presión. Describe las características del sonido como la longitud de onda, que es la distancia entre dos puntos correspondientes de la onda, y la frecuencia, que es la cantidad de ciclos por unidad de tiempo. A mayor frecuencia, la longitud de onda es menor y la penetración también es menor pero la resolución es mayor.
Building Startups and Minimum Viable Products (NDC2013)Ben Hall
Ben Hall is a hacker in residence at Cornershop and founder of previous startups. He discusses his approach to starting new ventures, which focuses on rapidly validating ideas by building minimum viable products and releasing early to test assumptions and learn from customers and metrics. Some of his key advice includes failing fast when ideas don't work, focusing on acquisition metrics over features, and prioritizing speed of delivery over perfect code in the early stages. The presentation emphasizes learning through quick iteration and putting products in front of customers as soon as possible.
The Camp Zama "Rebycle" Program aims to address the issue of abandoned bicycles on base by identifying them and recycling them back into the community. From August 1st to September 1st, bicycles must be registered at the Vehicle Registration Office or they will be impounded. Owners can claim impounded bikes until September 15th after which any remaining bikes will be recycled.
Green concrete is a type of concrete made with materials that reduce its environmental impact. It uses waste products like fly ash as partial replacements for cement, sand, or gravel. This decreases CO2 emissions in production by up to 30% compared to traditional concrete. Green concrete also has benefits like increased strength and durability while requiring less maintenance over time. Its use can help address the problem of waste disposal from industries while providing a more sustainable building material option.
The document is a sample question paper for an undergraduate general ability test. It consists of 100 multiple choice questions across 6 sub-tests assessing quantitative ability, communication ability, English comprehension, analytical ability, business domain knowledge, and thematic apperception. The questions provide 4 answer options with only one correct answer to select for each question. Sample questions are provided on topics ranging from mathematics to passages for comprehension.
El documento trata sobre la física del sonido. Explica que el sonido es una onda mecánica que se propaga a través de un medio material y causa variaciones de presión. Describe las características del sonido como la longitud de onda, que es la distancia entre dos puntos correspondientes de la onda, y la frecuencia, que es la cantidad de ciclos por unidad de tiempo. A mayor frecuencia, la longitud de onda es menor y la penetración también es menor pero la resolución es mayor.
Building Startups and Minimum Viable Products (NDC2013)Ben Hall
Ben Hall is a hacker in residence at Cornershop and founder of previous startups. He discusses his approach to starting new ventures, which focuses on rapidly validating ideas by building minimum viable products and releasing early to test assumptions and learn from customers and metrics. Some of his key advice includes failing fast when ideas don't work, focusing on acquisition metrics over features, and prioritizing speed of delivery over perfect code in the early stages. The presentation emphasizes learning through quick iteration and putting products in front of customers as soon as possible.
The Camp Zama "Rebycle" Program aims to address the issue of abandoned bicycles on base by identifying them and recycling them back into the community. From August 1st to September 1st, bicycles must be registered at the Vehicle Registration Office or they will be impounded. Owners can claim impounded bikes until September 15th after which any remaining bikes will be recycled.
Green concrete is a type of concrete made with materials that reduce its environmental impact. It uses waste products like fly ash as partial replacements for cement, sand, or gravel. This decreases CO2 emissions in production by up to 30% compared to traditional concrete. Green concrete also has benefits like increased strength and durability while requiring less maintenance over time. Its use can help address the problem of waste disposal from industries while providing a more sustainable building material option.
1. Factfile: China's one-child policy
Jane Macartney in Beijing
China's population went out of control after Mao Zedong's instruction to the nation in the 1950s and
1960s to go and have as many children as possible in order to bury the United States in a human wave.
Hundreds of millions of extra children were born in a baby boom that sent the birth rate soaring to 5.8
children per couple, a level unsustainable by China's natural resources of food, water and energy.
After Mao's death his successor, Deng Xiaoping, imposed a network of rules on families to limit
population growth. The rules were more complex than the simple instruction not to have more than one
baby, although parents who comply with this dictum still receive a certificate and a lump sum on
retirement.
Two babies were permitted in many areas in the countryside, or if the first child was a female, since
Chinese tradition strongly favor sons.
Ethnic minorities were exempt from parts of the policy, which applied mainly to the Han ethnic majority
that constitutes more than 90 per cent of all Chinese.
Breaking the one-child rule would result in a heavy fine, calculated as a multiple of salary in the year of
the child's birth, or as a proportion of the collective income of the community in peasant areas. State
officials who have more than one child automatically lose their jobs, a heavy punishment.
The rules are privately detested by many Chinese and have been criticized abroad. Human rights
activists complain that the one-child policy has led to the practice of eugenics, and that the Chinese state
uses it as a method of social engineering.
Some couples are given rigorous medical tests before they are allowed to marry, and it is claimed that
people suffering from mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and disabilities including dyslexia are
banned from marriage.
There have also been claims of genocide, through state-imposed abortions among pregnant women of
the Uyghur ethnic group, which seeks an independent Turkestan homeland.
Chinese officials say that the one-child policy has been successful in preventing at least 300 million
births, and has boosted prosperity.
*Thirty years after the policy was imposed, China's actual birth rate is said to be not one child per
couple but 1.8 children, because of exemptions and widespread flouting of the law by migrant
peasants who travel to work in cities. But this is still below the level of 2.1 children needed to
maintain population levels, and as such is starting to put pressure on state resources.*
When Mao's enormous baby boom generation reaches retirement age in a few years, Chinese officials
fear that their families will be unable to provide financial and social support.
One child being left to care for two parents and four grandparents is known as the "4-2-1" problem, and
threatens to put severe strain on communities in a country which lacks a formal social security system to
care for the elderly.
2. *The policy has also produced an unnatural gender imbalance, as couples use legal and illegal
means to ensure that their only child is a son. There are 117 men to each 100 women in China
compared with the 108:100 imbalance in India, where sons are also preferred and female foetuses
are sometimes aborted or baby girls left exposed to die.
Chinese officials estimate that by 2020 there will be 30 million men known as "bare branches",
unable to find a wife to marry and have their own child.
Another consequence of the one-child rule has been the creation of a generation of "little
emperors", indulged and cosseted boy children who are often overweight, arrogant and lacking in
social skills.*
In the cities, a new class of city worker has arisen with a Western-style reluctance to have more than one
child, because they want to preserve their rising standard of living.
Although all Chinese feel that the one-child policy has been a good thing for their country, most say they
personally wish they could have had more children. Officials are said to fear that if the policy is simply
lifted overnight, there will be a population explosion.
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