Software quality has become even more challenging and hard to achieve target. This talk outlines how the industry is coping with it, and describes latest trends and approaches from research and practice.
The term SPARKS- Professional Software Development for Students is understood to mean free talks for students who are interested in computer science, software engineering or how we work at LMI. This is an opportunity for students talking to professional software engineers to get further information about the topics of the talks.
The document compares and contrasts the V-model and agile testing approaches. The V-model involves sequential development and testing phases, while agile testing is iterative with the entire team sharing responsibility for quality. Agile testing allows for quicker feedback, accommodation of changes, and more practical implementation of unit and integration testing within iterations rather than as separate phases. The document lists advantages of the agile approach and disadvantages of the sequential V-model.
TestIstanbul 2016 Opening Speech: "Formula 1, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Test Data Management" by Board President Koray Yitmen.
Continuous integration primarily focuses on asserting that the code compiles successfully and passes a body of automated unit and acceptance tests. But is it enough? And what is the relationship between Continuous Delivery and Formula 1 Racing?
Continuous delivery and the challenges for the test automationDisa Tulonen
What can be done, when the test automation coverage is poor and the project wants to move into continuous delivery mode.
Speech at the Ohjelmistotestaus2016 conference, 24th of May 2016, Crowne Plaza Helsinki, Finland
This document provides an overview of software quality assurance (SQA), test case designing, and testing methodologies. It defines key terms like quality, SQA, testing, and verification and validation. It describes the different types of testing like unit, integration, system, and acceptance testing. It also outlines the testing process in an agile environment and discusses test planning, test case design, test execution, and defect logging. The goal is to cover all scenarios with the minimum number of test scripts and ensure software meets requirements.
The document compares and contrasts the V-model and agile testing approaches. The V-model involves sequential development and testing phases, while agile testing is iterative with the entire team sharing responsibility for quality. Agile testing allows for quicker feedback, accommodation of changes, and more practical implementation of unit and integration testing within iterations rather than as separate phases. The document lists advantages of the agile approach and disadvantages of the sequential V-model.
The document outlines a quality strategy for a project that focuses on testing principles like automating testing, starting testing early, treating test code like production code, and having different people test at different levels. It also describes the different phases of testing including unit, integration, system, pre-production, and live load level testing. The phases are defined by exit criteria like completed coding, passed integration tests, and test environment preparation.
This test plan outlines GUI validation testing for the Renters Insurance Project Agent Module. The testing will validate field types, captions, and business rules before functional testing. Smoke, regression, and adhoc testing will also be conducted to find defects. Defects will be logged and prioritized in the defect tracking tool. Test cases will be designed based on requirements and reviewed before execution. Execution will continue until no high/critical defects remain. The plan details test approaches, resources, milestones, risks, and dependencies.
Software quality has become even more challenging and hard to achieve target. This talk outlines how the industry is coping with it, and describes latest trends and approaches from research and practice.
The term SPARKS- Professional Software Development for Students is understood to mean free talks for students who are interested in computer science, software engineering or how we work at LMI. This is an opportunity for students talking to professional software engineers to get further information about the topics of the talks.
The document compares and contrasts the V-model and agile testing approaches. The V-model involves sequential development and testing phases, while agile testing is iterative with the entire team sharing responsibility for quality. Agile testing allows for quicker feedback, accommodation of changes, and more practical implementation of unit and integration testing within iterations rather than as separate phases. The document lists advantages of the agile approach and disadvantages of the sequential V-model.
TestIstanbul 2016 Opening Speech: "Formula 1, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Test Data Management" by Board President Koray Yitmen.
Continuous integration primarily focuses on asserting that the code compiles successfully and passes a body of automated unit and acceptance tests. But is it enough? And what is the relationship between Continuous Delivery and Formula 1 Racing?
Continuous delivery and the challenges for the test automationDisa Tulonen
What can be done, when the test automation coverage is poor and the project wants to move into continuous delivery mode.
Speech at the Ohjelmistotestaus2016 conference, 24th of May 2016, Crowne Plaza Helsinki, Finland
This document provides an overview of software quality assurance (SQA), test case designing, and testing methodologies. It defines key terms like quality, SQA, testing, and verification and validation. It describes the different types of testing like unit, integration, system, and acceptance testing. It also outlines the testing process in an agile environment and discusses test planning, test case design, test execution, and defect logging. The goal is to cover all scenarios with the minimum number of test scripts and ensure software meets requirements.
The document compares and contrasts the V-model and agile testing approaches. The V-model involves sequential development and testing phases, while agile testing is iterative with the entire team sharing responsibility for quality. Agile testing allows for quicker feedback, accommodation of changes, and more practical implementation of unit and integration testing within iterations rather than as separate phases. The document lists advantages of the agile approach and disadvantages of the sequential V-model.
The document outlines a quality strategy for a project that focuses on testing principles like automating testing, starting testing early, treating test code like production code, and having different people test at different levels. It also describes the different phases of testing including unit, integration, system, pre-production, and live load level testing. The phases are defined by exit criteria like completed coding, passed integration tests, and test environment preparation.
This test plan outlines GUI validation testing for the Renters Insurance Project Agent Module. The testing will validate field types, captions, and business rules before functional testing. Smoke, regression, and adhoc testing will also be conducted to find defects. Defects will be logged and prioritized in the defect tracking tool. Test cases will be designed based on requirements and reviewed before execution. Execution will continue until no high/critical defects remain. The plan details test approaches, resources, milestones, risks, and dependencies.
Unit testing is a software development method that involves writing small pieces of code called units to test individual functions or components. This helps ensure code works as intended and finds bugs early. Key benefits of unit testing include keeping code simple, making code more maintainable and robust, and providing regression tests. However, developers sometimes avoid unit testing due to perceptions that it is tedious or not valuable. Tools like NUnit and Visual Studio support automating unit tests. Test-driven development is a technique where tests are written before code to specify desired behavior.
Xray for Jira - How to automate your QA processXpand IT
This document outlines how to automate QA processes using Xray for JIRA. It discusses challenges in QA like releasing faster while maintaining quality, and how test automation can help address these challenges by automating repetitive tasks to find bugs earlier. The document then covers how Xray allows automating test workflows, integrating various test frameworks, and generating customized reports using Xporter. It demonstrates automating JUnit and Cucumber tests, tracking requirements coverage, and managing the full test lifecycle within JIRA.
This document discusses different methods for verifying hardware designs, including simulation and formal verification. It describes how individual components are first verified against their specifications before being assembled into larger designs like a CPU. Components are simulated individually and their inputs and outputs are exhaustively tested. Once components are verified, a testbench is used to integrate and verify the overall system functionality by applying test stimuli and checking the output responses.
Mohammed Kharma-A flexible framework for quality assurance and testing of sof...Mohammed Kharma
This document introduces a new flexible framework for testing and quality assurance of software. The framework allows for easy extension of testing environments. It represents target software using an XML document containing inputs, outputs, execution time, and expected return values. The framework includes modules for analysis, a testing manager, and web service APIs that can be extended via plug-ins. It was created to serve future global testing needs in a flexible manner.
Automated verification is becoming increasingly important. Getting a product from idea to customer as fast as possible in a Continuous Delivery, or a Deployment pipeline is crucial in more businesses than ever before. But how do we get a product through that pipe line, with high quality? Kristian will talk about how automated verification can get you there.
This document discusses the benefits of unit testing by describing common problems that unit tests can help address, such as bugs found late in the development process, services that do not work as expected when integrated, difficulties with code changes requested by clients, and delays in schedules due to unexpected bugs. It defines what a unit test is and explains that while unit tests take more time initially, they help developers be confident in their code, welcome changes, and achieve good test coverage during each sprint.
Sri Lanka GCE O/L IT subject syllabus related slides are here. Most of these are cover in basics of computer science and engineering. You may find Software testing related information in here.
1) The document describes Qualimetry's transition from manual to automatic software audits, including developing tools and models to analyze code automatically and generate objective quality metrics and scores.
2) Early audits from 2002-2005 were conducted manually using document review, code analysis tools, and quality models to evaluate factors like maintainability, reusability and generate quality scores.
3) To enable full automation, Qualimetry developed a strict notation system using metrics, thresholds, and weighted averages to automatically evaluate code components and generate consolidated quality ratings.
Agile testing involves all members of a cross-functional agile team, with special expertise contributed by testers, to ensure delivering customer value at frequent intervals. It follows principles of agile software development. Key aspects of agile testing include continuous integration, automated deployment to environments, test automation, version control, and agile continuous delivery.
The document discusses the differences between functional testing and end-to-end testing, and explains that while they are related, they are not the same. It notes that functional testing ensures each application function works as specified, while end-to-end testing checks the full application flow. The document also states that functional testing is a component of system testing and includes performance testing, and that while manual testing is still used, functional testing should be automated as much as possible.
The document outlines the topics that will be covered in an online software testing training, including an introduction to software testing, the software development life cycle, different testing methods and levels, types of testing, and the software testing life cycle. Key points covered are that software testing is the process of validating and verifying software to check if it meets requirements, identifies bugs, and ensures quality. It also discusses why testing is important for reducing maintenance costs and preventing failures.
Xray v3 introduces new features for test management within JIRA including a test repository, test plan board, and test evolution gadget. The test repository provides a hierarchical organization of tests within a project. The test plan board allows hierarchical organization of tests at execution time. The test evolution gadget tracks testing progress and identifies regressions. These new features aim to improve test organization and visibility of testing status.
The document provides an overview of fundamentals of testing including the testing process, psychology of testing, and exams. It describes the typical activities in a test process including test planning, monitoring and control, analysis, design, implementation, execution, and completion. For each activity, it outlines the common tasks and work products. It also discusses how human psychology and the different mindsets of testers and developers can impact testing. The document emphasizes the importance of independence in testing to avoid author bias and more effectively find defects.
This document outlines different types of software testing including the objectives, principles, types, and levels of testing. The types of testing discussed are white box testing, which validates code implementation against design, and black box testing, which is done without knowledge of internal programming details. The levels of testing covered include unit testing, integration testing using different approaches, system testing of security, recovery, and reliability, and acceptance testing stages of alpha and beta. The overall goal of testing is to find issues and verify requirements to improve system quality before delivery.
The document discusses lean manufacturing, which aims to maximize customer value while reducing waste. It defines lean manufacturing as a theory that simplifies work environments to reduce waste and keep resources responsive. The key principles are focused on finding efficient ways to accomplish tasks without compromising quality. Lean aims to eliminate seven types of waste: overproduction, waiting, inventory, transportation, over-processing, motion, and defects. Case studies and additional readings are provided.
The document describes the phases of the software testing life cycle (STLC), which includes requirement, planning, analysis, design, implementation, execution, conclusion, and closure phases. Each phase has specific goals and deliverables. The requirement phase involves analyzing requirements to determine testability. The planning phase identifies testing activities, resources, and metrics. The analysis phase defines what to test by identifying test conditions. The design phase defines how to test by detailing test conditions and creating test data. The implementation phase involves creating and reviewing test cases. The execution phase runs the test cases and logs any defects. The conclusion phase focuses on reporting and exit criteria. The closure phase verifies all testing is complete and identifies lessons learned.
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SlideShare is a global platform for sharing presentations, infographics, videos and documents. It has over 18 million pieces of professional content uploaded by experts like Eric Schmidt and Guy Kawasaki. The document provides tips for setting up an account on SlideShare, uploading content, optimizing it for searchability, and sharing it on social media to build an audience and reputation as a subject matter expert.
Unit testing is a software development method that involves writing small pieces of code called units to test individual functions or components. This helps ensure code works as intended and finds bugs early. Key benefits of unit testing include keeping code simple, making code more maintainable and robust, and providing regression tests. However, developers sometimes avoid unit testing due to perceptions that it is tedious or not valuable. Tools like NUnit and Visual Studio support automating unit tests. Test-driven development is a technique where tests are written before code to specify desired behavior.
Xray for Jira - How to automate your QA processXpand IT
This document outlines how to automate QA processes using Xray for JIRA. It discusses challenges in QA like releasing faster while maintaining quality, and how test automation can help address these challenges by automating repetitive tasks to find bugs earlier. The document then covers how Xray allows automating test workflows, integrating various test frameworks, and generating customized reports using Xporter. It demonstrates automating JUnit and Cucumber tests, tracking requirements coverage, and managing the full test lifecycle within JIRA.
This document discusses different methods for verifying hardware designs, including simulation and formal verification. It describes how individual components are first verified against their specifications before being assembled into larger designs like a CPU. Components are simulated individually and their inputs and outputs are exhaustively tested. Once components are verified, a testbench is used to integrate and verify the overall system functionality by applying test stimuli and checking the output responses.
Mohammed Kharma-A flexible framework for quality assurance and testing of sof...Mohammed Kharma
This document introduces a new flexible framework for testing and quality assurance of software. The framework allows for easy extension of testing environments. It represents target software using an XML document containing inputs, outputs, execution time, and expected return values. The framework includes modules for analysis, a testing manager, and web service APIs that can be extended via plug-ins. It was created to serve future global testing needs in a flexible manner.
Automated verification is becoming increasingly important. Getting a product from idea to customer as fast as possible in a Continuous Delivery, or a Deployment pipeline is crucial in more businesses than ever before. But how do we get a product through that pipe line, with high quality? Kristian will talk about how automated verification can get you there.
This document discusses the benefits of unit testing by describing common problems that unit tests can help address, such as bugs found late in the development process, services that do not work as expected when integrated, difficulties with code changes requested by clients, and delays in schedules due to unexpected bugs. It defines what a unit test is and explains that while unit tests take more time initially, they help developers be confident in their code, welcome changes, and achieve good test coverage during each sprint.
Sri Lanka GCE O/L IT subject syllabus related slides are here. Most of these are cover in basics of computer science and engineering. You may find Software testing related information in here.
1) The document describes Qualimetry's transition from manual to automatic software audits, including developing tools and models to analyze code automatically and generate objective quality metrics and scores.
2) Early audits from 2002-2005 were conducted manually using document review, code analysis tools, and quality models to evaluate factors like maintainability, reusability and generate quality scores.
3) To enable full automation, Qualimetry developed a strict notation system using metrics, thresholds, and weighted averages to automatically evaluate code components and generate consolidated quality ratings.
Agile testing involves all members of a cross-functional agile team, with special expertise contributed by testers, to ensure delivering customer value at frequent intervals. It follows principles of agile software development. Key aspects of agile testing include continuous integration, automated deployment to environments, test automation, version control, and agile continuous delivery.
The document discusses the differences between functional testing and end-to-end testing, and explains that while they are related, they are not the same. It notes that functional testing ensures each application function works as specified, while end-to-end testing checks the full application flow. The document also states that functional testing is a component of system testing and includes performance testing, and that while manual testing is still used, functional testing should be automated as much as possible.
The document outlines the topics that will be covered in an online software testing training, including an introduction to software testing, the software development life cycle, different testing methods and levels, types of testing, and the software testing life cycle. Key points covered are that software testing is the process of validating and verifying software to check if it meets requirements, identifies bugs, and ensures quality. It also discusses why testing is important for reducing maintenance costs and preventing failures.
Xray v3 introduces new features for test management within JIRA including a test repository, test plan board, and test evolution gadget. The test repository provides a hierarchical organization of tests within a project. The test plan board allows hierarchical organization of tests at execution time. The test evolution gadget tracks testing progress and identifies regressions. These new features aim to improve test organization and visibility of testing status.
The document provides an overview of fundamentals of testing including the testing process, psychology of testing, and exams. It describes the typical activities in a test process including test planning, monitoring and control, analysis, design, implementation, execution, and completion. For each activity, it outlines the common tasks and work products. It also discusses how human psychology and the different mindsets of testers and developers can impact testing. The document emphasizes the importance of independence in testing to avoid author bias and more effectively find defects.
This document outlines different types of software testing including the objectives, principles, types, and levels of testing. The types of testing discussed are white box testing, which validates code implementation against design, and black box testing, which is done without knowledge of internal programming details. The levels of testing covered include unit testing, integration testing using different approaches, system testing of security, recovery, and reliability, and acceptance testing stages of alpha and beta. The overall goal of testing is to find issues and verify requirements to improve system quality before delivery.
The document discusses lean manufacturing, which aims to maximize customer value while reducing waste. It defines lean manufacturing as a theory that simplifies work environments to reduce waste and keep resources responsive. The key principles are focused on finding efficient ways to accomplish tasks without compromising quality. Lean aims to eliminate seven types of waste: overproduction, waiting, inventory, transportation, over-processing, motion, and defects. Case studies and additional readings are provided.
The document describes the phases of the software testing life cycle (STLC), which includes requirement, planning, analysis, design, implementation, execution, conclusion, and closure phases. Each phase has specific goals and deliverables. The requirement phase involves analyzing requirements to determine testability. The planning phase identifies testing activities, resources, and metrics. The analysis phase defines what to test by identifying test conditions. The design phase defines how to test by detailing test conditions and creating test data. The implementation phase involves creating and reviewing test cases. The execution phase runs the test cases and logs any defects. The conclusion phase focuses on reporting and exit criteria. The closure phase verifies all testing is complete and identifies lessons learned.
Each month, join us as we highlight and discuss hot topics ranging from the future of higher education to wearable technology, best productivity hacks and secrets to hiring top talent. Upload your SlideShares, and share your expertise with the world!
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SlideShares that inform, inspire and educate attract the most views. Beyond that, ideas for what you can upload are limitless. We’ve selected a few popular examples to get your creative juices flowing.
SlideShare is a global platform for sharing presentations, infographics, videos and documents. It has over 18 million pieces of professional content uploaded by experts like Eric Schmidt and Guy Kawasaki. The document provides tips for setting up an account on SlideShare, uploading content, optimizing it for searchability, and sharing it on social media to build an audience and reputation as a subject matter expert.
The document discusses principles and methods of agile testing. It describes various agile testing techniques like behavior driven development, acceptance test driven development, and exploratory testing. The benefits of agile testing are outlined as well as considerations for test planning, risk-based testing, and communicating test results in an agile environment. Automated testing is discussed including what to automate and tools to use for test automation in agile projects.
The document discusses various aspects of developing a test strategy for software projects. It covers topics like test levels, roles and responsibilities, test types, test methodologies, test estimation processes, risk analysis and management. Some key points include defining the scope, risks, test priorities and approach in the strategy. It also discusses test estimation techniques like use case points, function points and test case points to estimate the testing effort.
The document discusses the phases of the Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC). It begins by introducing the group members and defining software testing as a process to find bugs by executing a program. It then outlines the six main phases of the STLC: 1) Requirements analysis to understand requirements and identify test cases, 2) Test planning to create test plans and strategies, 3) Test case development to write test cases and scripts, 4) Environment setup to prepare the test environment, 5) Test execution and bug reporting to run tests and log defects, and 6) Test cycle closure to review testing artifacts and lessons learned. Each phase is described in 1-2 sentences with its activities, deliverables, and examples provided.
This document provides an overview of software testing, including definitions, types of testing, and the software testing lifecycle. It defines software testing as a method to assess software functionality. The key points covered are:
- Software testing ensures software does what it's intended to do and remains functional after changes.
- Types of testing include unit, integration, system, and regression testing.
- The software testing lifecycle includes planning, developing test cases, executing tests, and closing test cycles.
- Cloud testing can reduce regression testing time by using virtualized hardware and software services.
This document discusses software testing practices and processes. It covers topics like unit testing, integration testing, validation testing, test planning, and test types. The key points are that testing aims to find errors, good testing uses both valid and invalid inputs, and testing should have clear objectives and be assigned to experienced people. Testing is done at the unit, integration and system levels using techniques like black box testing.
This document provides an overview of software testing concepts and definitions. It discusses key topics such as software quality, testing methods like static and dynamic testing, testing levels from unit to acceptance testing, and testing types including functional, non-functional, regression and security testing. The document is intended as an introduction to software testing principles and terminology.
Quality assurance aims to identify and correct errors early in the development process through reviews and testing at each phase. The System Software Lifecycle (SSLC) model aims to ensure quality when developing software. It has five stages: requirements specification, design specification, testing and implementation, and maintenance and support. Testing is an important but difficult part of development that helps eliminate errors by determining what causes failures. Validation and certification ensure the software meets standards through simulated and live testing. Maintenance provides adjustments to comply with specifications and improve quality through problem reporting and resolution.
The document provides an overview of quality assurance and testing practices for agile projects. It discusses traditional and agile testing approaches, defines roles like testers and developers in agile teams, and outlines a test strategy including test planning, automation, and metrics. Key aspects of agile testing covered are testing throughout each sprint, the importance of collaboration, and ensuring quality is "baked in" through a whole team approach.
This lecture is about the detail definition of software quality and quality assurance. Provide details about software tesing and its types. Clear the basic concepts of software quality and software testing.
SQA (Software Quality Assurance) involves planned and systematic activities to ensure quality of software products and processes. This includes establishing standards and procedures for development, continuous monitoring of products and processes, and conducting audits. Key SQA activities include product evaluation to ensure adherence to standards, process monitoring to ensure procedures are followed correctly, and product audits to thoroughly review products and processes. The SQA plan documents the quality assurance approach and controls quality throughout the project.
This document provides an overview of software testing fundamentals. It discusses why testing is necessary due to human errors that can lead to defects. It then defines software testing as a process used to evaluate a product against requirements and design specifications through execution of tests to detect defects. The document outlines the general test process, including test planning, analysis and design, implementation and execution, evaluating results against exit criteria, and closing testing activities.
Software Testing Presentation in Cegonsoft Pvt Ltd...ChithraCegon
The process of executing and verifying whether the application or a program or system meets the customer requirements with the intent of finding errors.
This document provides an overview of software testing concepts and processes. It discusses the importance of testing in the software development lifecycle and defines key terms like errors, bugs, faults, and failures. It also describes different types of testing like unit testing, integration testing, system testing, and acceptance testing. Finally, it covers quality assurance and quality control processes and how bugs are managed throughout their lifecycle.
The document provides an overview of the agenda and content for Day 1 of an ISTQB Foundation Level training course. It begins with an introduction to ISTQB, including what it is, its purpose, and certification levels. It then outlines the agenda for Day 1, which includes introductions to ISTQB, principles of testing, testing throughout the software development lifecycle, static testing techniques, and tool support for testing. The document provides details on each of these topics, such as definitions of testing, principles of testing, software development models, testing levels, types of testing, and examples of static testing techniques.
The document discusses test planning, analysis, design, implementation, and execution. It describes the roles and responsibilities of test analysts in each phase of testing. This includes activities like creating test cases and conditions, designing test suites, implementing test data and environments, executing tests, and logging test results. Test implementation is influenced by factors like the development lifecycle model, quality characteristics, test infrastructure, and exit criteria.
The document discusses software testing throughout the software development life cycle. It covers key topics like software development life cycle models, test levels, test types, and maintenance testing. Test levels include component testing, integration testing, and system testing. Software development life cycle models can be sequential, iterative, or incremental. The document provides details on various models like waterfall, V-model, spiral, agile development, etc. It also discusses test planning, test design techniques, integration strategies like big bang, top-down and bottom-up integration.
The document provides an overview of agile testing concepts and approaches. It discusses key aspects of agile testing including testing terminology, mindset, challenges, common approaches, strategies, and metrics. The agenda includes recapping agile principles, describing testing roles in agile, discussing test planning and execution in each sprint, and highlighting problems and lessons learned from projects.
What is Agile Software Development example?
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Examples of Agile Methodology. The most popular and common examples are Scrum, eXtreme Programming (XP), Feature Driven Development (FDD), Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM), Adaptive Software Development (ASD), Crystal, and Lean Software Development (LSD).
"Frontline Battles with DDoS: Best practices and Lessons Learned", Igor IvaniukFwdays
At this talk we will discuss DDoS protection tools and best practices, discuss network architectures and what AWS has to offer. Also, we will look into one of the largest DDoS attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure that happened in February 2022. We'll see, what techniques helped to keep the web resources available for Ukrainians and how AWS improved DDoS protection for all customers based on Ukraine experience
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...Alex Pruden
Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
How to Interpret Trends in the Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart.pdfChart Kalyan
A Mix Chart displays historical data of numbers in a graphical or tabular form. The Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart specifically shows the results of a sequence of numbers over different periods.
Conversational agents, or chatbots, are increasingly used to access all sorts of services using natural language. While open-domain chatbots - like ChatGPT - can converse on any topic, task-oriented chatbots - the focus of this paper - are designed for specific tasks, like booking a flight, obtaining customer support, or setting an appointment. Like any other software, task-oriented chatbots need to be properly tested, usually by defining and executing test scenarios (i.e., sequences of user-chatbot interactions). However, there is currently a lack of methods to quantify the completeness and strength of such test scenarios, which can lead to low-quality tests, and hence to buggy chatbots.
To fill this gap, we propose adapting mutation testing (MuT) for task-oriented chatbots. To this end, we introduce a set of mutation operators that emulate faults in chatbot designs, an architecture that enables MuT on chatbots built using heterogeneous technologies, and a practical realisation as an Eclipse plugin. Moreover, we evaluate the applicability, effectiveness and efficiency of our approach on open-source chatbots, with promising results.
[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...Jason Yip
The typical problem in product engineering is not bad strategy, so much as “no strategy”. This leads to confusion, lack of motivation, and incoherent action. The next time you look for a strategy and find an empty space, instead of waiting for it to be filled, I will show you how to fill it in yourself. If you’re wrong, it forces a correction. If you’re right, it helps create focus. I’ll share how I’ve approached this in the past, both what works and lessons for what didn’t work so well.
Fueling AI with Great Data with Airbyte WebinarZilliz
This talk will focus on how to collect data from a variety of sources, leveraging this data for RAG and other GenAI use cases, and finally charting your course to productionalization.
How information systems are built or acquired puts information, which is what they should be about, in a secondary place. Our language adapted accordingly, and we no longer talk about information systems but applications. Applications evolved in a way to break data into diverse fragments, tightly coupled with applications and expensive to integrate. The result is technical debt, which is re-paid by taking even bigger "loans", resulting in an ever-increasing technical debt. Software engineering and procurement practices work in sync with market forces to maintain this trend. This talk demonstrates how natural this situation is. The question is: can something be done to reverse the trend?
Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing.pdfssuserfac0301
Read Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing to gain insights on AI adoption in the manufacturing industry, such as:
1. How quickly AI is being implemented in manufacturing.
2. Which barriers stand in the way of AI adoption.
3. How data quality and governance form the backbone of AI.
4. Organizational processes and structures that may inhibit effective AI adoption.
6. Ideas and approaches to help build your organization's AI strategy.
Programming Foundation Models with DSPy - Meetup SlidesZilliz
Prompting language models is hard, while programming language models is easy. In this talk, I will discuss the state-of-the-art framework DSPy for programming foundation models with its powerful optimizers and runtime constraint system.
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/temporal-event-neural-networks-a-more-efficient-alternative-to-the-transformer-a-presentation-from-brainchip/
Chris Jones, Director of Product Management at BrainChip , presents the “Temporal Event Neural Networks: A More Efficient Alternative to the Transformer” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
The expansion of AI services necessitates enhanced computational capabilities on edge devices. Temporal Event Neural Networks (TENNs), developed by BrainChip, represent a novel and highly efficient state-space network. TENNs demonstrate exceptional proficiency in handling multi-dimensional streaming data, facilitating advancements in object detection, action recognition, speech enhancement and language model/sequence generation. Through the utilization of polynomial-based continuous convolutions, TENNs streamline models, expedite training processes and significantly diminish memory requirements, achieving notable reductions of up to 50x in parameters and 5,000x in energy consumption compared to prevailing methodologies like transformers.
Integration with BrainChip’s Akida neuromorphic hardware IP further enhances TENNs’ capabilities, enabling the realization of highly capable, portable and passively cooled edge devices. This presentation delves into the technical innovations underlying TENNs, presents real-world benchmarks, and elucidates how this cutting-edge approach is positioned to revolutionize edge AI across diverse applications.
Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success StorySafe Software
Are you ready to revolutionize how you handle data? Join us for a webinar where we’ll bring you up to speed with the latest advancements in Generative AI technology and discover how leveraging FME with tools from giants like Google Gemini, Amazon, and Microsoft OpenAI can supercharge your workflow efficiency.
During the hour, we’ll take you through:
Guest Speaker Segment with Hannah Barrington: Dive into the world of dynamic real estate marketing with Hannah, the Marketing Manager at Workspace Group. Hear firsthand how their team generates engaging descriptions for thousands of office units by integrating diverse data sources—from PDF floorplans to web pages—using FME transformers, like OpenAIVisionConnector and AnthropicVisionConnector. This use case will show you how GenAI can streamline content creation for marketing across the board.
Ollama Use Case: Learn how Scenario Specialist Dmitri Bagh has utilized Ollama within FME to input data, create custom models, and enhance security protocols. This segment will include demos to illustrate the full capabilities of FME in AI-driven processes.
Custom AI Models: Discover how to leverage FME to build personalized AI models using your data. Whether it’s populating a model with local data for added security or integrating public AI tools, find out how FME facilitates a versatile and secure approach to AI.
We’ll wrap up with a live Q&A session where you can engage with our experts on your specific use cases, and learn more about optimizing your data workflows with AI.
This webinar is ideal for professionals seeking to harness the power of AI within their data management systems while ensuring high levels of customization and security. Whether you're a novice or an expert, gain actionable insights and strategies to elevate your data processes. Join us to see how FME and AI can revolutionize how you work with data!
"Choosing proper type of scaling", Olena SyrotaFwdays
Imagine an IoT processing system that is already quite mature and production-ready and for which client coverage is growing and scaling and performance aspects are life and death questions. The system has Redis, MongoDB, and stream processing based on ksqldb. In this talk, firstly, we will analyze scaling approaches and then select the proper ones for our system.
AppSec PNW: Android and iOS Application Security with MobSFAjin Abraham
Mobile Security Framework - MobSF is a free and open source automated mobile application security testing environment designed to help security engineers, researchers, developers, and penetration testers to identify security vulnerabilities, malicious behaviours and privacy concerns in mobile applications using static and dynamic analysis. It supports all the popular mobile application binaries and source code formats built for Android and iOS devices. In addition to automated security assessment, it also offers an interactive testing environment to build and execute scenario based test/fuzz cases against the application.
This talk covers:
Using MobSF for static analysis of mobile applications.
Interactive dynamic security assessment of Android and iOS applications.
Solving Mobile app CTF challenges.
Reverse engineering and runtime analysis of Mobile malware.
How to shift left and integrate MobSF/mobsfscan SAST and DAST in your build pipeline.
3. 1. Software Testing
Definition:
The process of evaluating the quality of any software
Questions answered by QA.
Does it meet the requirements?
Is it build according to the design?
Is it usable?
Verification:
Are we building the product RIGHT? Making sure are we on the right path.
Validation:
A process of finding out if the product being built is right. It is done after the
development process is fully or partially complete.
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4. 2) Testing an important Evil task!
Why do we test?
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Gain confidence in the system we are building
Checking against the requirements set for the system
Identify the weak areas of the system
Proving that the software is usable and operable
Making the deployment decision easy
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5. 3. SDLC
Software Development Life Cycle:
Definition:
A process of creating and maintaining a software system/product/[project.
Broadly Classified in 5 steps
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Planning and communication
• Setting requirements
• Worthiness of the system
• Modularizing system
• Setting measurable goals to be achieved
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Design
• Input: Approved SRS, Output: Small Modules
• All details of the system provided in form of Process flow diagrams, UI screen
shots etc.
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Implementation
• Detailed design is converted into software code
• Unit and Integration testing also done
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Testing
• Functional, Non functional testing
• Bug fixes and releases with bug fixes
• QA certified
• User acceptance testing
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Deployment and Maintenance
• QA certified release is made Live
• Alpha and beta testing
• Upgrades and maintenance activities
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7. 4. STLC
Definition:
A process which tells which test activity is to be performed and at what point of time.
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Test Planning
• Preparation of a high-level test plan
• Test plan specifies: Scope, approach, resources and schedule
• An on going process
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Test Analysis
• What type of testing will be done at various stages in SDLC
• Need and use of automation
• Creating Test case templates and test cases
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Test Design
• Revision of Test plan and test cases
• Automation(if any) begins
• Test environment is created
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Construction and verification
• Completion of all Test plans, test cases including the automation
• Unit and integration testing and bug reporting.
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Testing Cycles
• Test execution—Bug reporting—Bug fixing—Re-test and Regression—Update
test cases
• Above process continues until Approved from QA
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Final Testing and Implementation
• All testing including acceptance, Performance and stress will be completed
• Testing in production environment is done
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Post Implementation
• Post mortem of the complete test process
• Cleaning of the test environment and other systems
• Enhancing the complete cycle
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