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Presentation to the Silverlight User Group in London on October 12th to provide a round-up of the recent BUILD conference in LA and an introduction to Windows 8 and the Windows Runtime.
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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
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Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
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https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
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• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• 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.
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UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
4. Windows 8
Windows 8 basically for :
Home and business desktops.
Laptops.
Tablets.
Home theater PCs.
5. Windows 8 & Windows RT
Windows 8 Windows RT
Hardware Intel or AMD chips. ARM-powered devices.
Battery Life Estimated battery life
between 6 and 8 hours.
Longer battery life than
most Windows 8 devices
Software
Support
Windows Store
+ Third-Party programs.
Only Windows Store
Business Use Business-friendly Not business-friendly
10. Main Features
Snapping and orientation.
New XAML controls.
Contracts.
Live tiles.
Toast notifications.
Lock screen notifications.
Background tasks
11. Main Features
Navigation.
Geolocation.
Storage.
Context menus.
File association.
Camera capture.
Sensors.
Application life cycle.
12. Snapping and orientation.
Windows 8 app certification requirements:
1024 x 768 (minimum screen resolution & Filled state)
320 x 768 (Snapped).
Your default resolution that you are planning for,
generally 1366 x 768.
13. New XAML Controls
Different Navigation controls.
New Controls:
App Bar
Flip View
Grid View
Progress Ring
Semantic Zoom
Web View
14. App Bar
The Bottom AppBar
Left : context-specific
commands.
Right : universal commands.
The Top AppBar
Navigation
Other purposes.
202 default AppBar button
Styles.
21. Settings Contract
Add handler to Settings
pane open request.
Create new Settings
Command.
Handle all of the cases
for Popup.
DO NOT wait for save.
DO NOT wait to confirm
22. Search Contract
Add Search Contract
Template.
What would users expect
to search for in my app?
Add your search results for
Search Page.
Define search suggestions.
Forced Search by
Keystrokes.
24. Share Contract
Types of content:
Unformatted Plain Text
Link
Formatted Content /
HTML
Files
Single Image
Custom Data Format
25. Share Contract
Share Target REQs:
Add the Share Target
declaration.
Add method to handle
when the Share Target is
activated.
Handle Target Page to
work with share data.
27. File Picker Contract
Specific Type (s) or any.
Define start location.
View mode
(List/Thumbnail).
Retrieve one or multiple.
Folder Picker.
28. Play To Contract
Share content from your
computer to a television,
another computer, or an
Xbox 360.
A Play To source.
A play To target.
29. Live Tiles
A relationship with your
user.
Small & Large tiles.
You must ALWAYS have
a small tile.
XML templates.
Secondary Tiles.
Turn live tile off.
30. Toast Notification
YOU NEED TO KNOW
THIS INFORMATION
RIGHT NOW!
XML Templates.
Long duration toasts.
Setting the audio
(9 files only).
31. Lock Screen Notifications
Badge & Text.
Updated from a
Background Agent.
Only ONE opportunity
to ask the user for
permission.
Glyph or number.
32. Background Tasks
The code that runs when
your app doesn’t.
Windows Runtime
Component.
Must implement
IBacKgroundTask.
Declare Background Tasks
in package.appxmanifest
file.
Register your background
task.
34. Geolocation
Useful for:
Line of Business Apps.
Games.
Maps.
Travel.
Exercise.
Updating Manifest.
Getting geolocation data
when it changes.
36. Storage
NO System.Data.
You have 4 Solutions:
Services(Azure).
IndexedDB
Third party (SQLite).
Application Settings:
Local.
Roaming.
37. SQLite
Relational database
management system
contained in a small
Cprogramming library.
Stores the entire
database as a single
cross-platform file on a
host machine.
Doesn’t support all the
SQL features
38. SQLite
Get it from Extension
Manager.
Add references to your
project.
Target only one Package.
Add sqlite-net package
39. Local VS Roaming
Roaming Local
Data available on all user
devices.
Use
Use roaming for preferences
and customization.
Use roaming to let users
continue a task.
Data available only on current
device.
Use:
Use local for information
that is clearly local-only.
Use local for large datasets.
Use local for instant
synchronization or rapidly
changing data.
40. Context Menu
Right-click on something
you couldn’t select.
Steps:
determine the position
of the clicked element.
Create context menu and
add commands .
Show popup.
Only six commands.
Text box context menus.
41. File association
Registering our app with
Windows 8 as an app
that opens files of a
certain type.
Suitable for Editor apps
(Text, photo,…).
Open your own
extension files.
42. Camera Capture
Updating Manifest
User permission.
Create
CameraCaptureUI
object.
CaptureFileAsync to get
photo or video.
Setup video settings
(Max duration/format
type/Max Resolution).
43. Sensors
The Compass.
The Light Sensor.
The Accelerometer.
The Gyro meter.
The Inclinometer.
44. Application Life Cycle
Lake of resources, your app
will enter a suspended state.
Leave app to use another,
Windows will wait a few
seconds before suspending it.
5 seconds before app to be
unresponsive.
App.XAML.CS:
OnLaunched : not resuming.
OnSuspending
49. Navigation Patterns
DONOT use the
“everywhere navigation”
pattern.
Hierarchical Navigation
Master/detail structure.
Semantic Zoom
Branching not flat.
50. Hub Navigation Pattern
Hub pages :
Entry point.
What’s new and available.
Section Page:
Second level.
Individual items.
Detail pages:
Third level.
Details of individual items.
51. Fluid motion
Animation should be
purposeful.
Hide late load time.
XAML animation library.
Theme transitions.
Animation transitions.
52. Make a touch priority
A “tap” and a “click” in
Windows 8 are the same.
Clickable larger than
48 x 48 pixels.
Optimal places to put
your buttons and
content.
54. Performance best practices
Minimize Application
Startup.
Optimize loading XAML.
Load, store, and display
large sets of data
efficiently.
Access the file system
efficiently.
Keep the UI thread
responsive.
Keep your app fast when
you use interop.
55. Performance best practices
Make animations smooth.
Optimize media
resources.
Minimize
suspend/resume time.
Reduce battery
consumption.
56. Minimize Application Startup
Start time:
Less than one second (Excellent).
Less than 5 seconds (Good).
Greater than 5 seconds (Poor).
Minimize managed assemblies in the startup
Two small assemblies instead one large.
Load locally instead web requests.
Disk operations are faster than network operations.
57. Optimize loading XAML
Start Page:
Don’t reference for controls and resources in other files.
Don’t include page specific XAML in app’s resource
dictionary.
Optimize element count:
Avoid unnecessary elements.
Remove hidden elements or set the Visibility property to
Collapsed.
Same vector = an image.
58. Optimize loading XAML
Reuse identical brushes.
Minimize redrawing to the same place on the screen :
Collapse elements that are entirely obscure.
Create a composite element instead of layering objects.
Don't use the same color for foreground and background.
Prefer a Border element to draw a border around an object
instead of using other objects to impersonate a border.
Be aware of your margin sizes.
Cache static content.
59. Load, store, and display large sets
of data efficiently
Use UI virtualization to create only visible items:
Wrap Grid .
Virtualizing StackPanel.
Keep item templates simple.
Use item template selectors only as needed.
Load subsets of data:
Incremental data virtualization:
(ISupportIncrementalLoading.)
Random access data virtualization:
(INotifyCollectionChanged and IObservableVector)
60. Access the file system efficiently
Only retrieve needed properties not all.
Windows Runtime stream adapters data buffer .
Don’t use buffer for low-latency reads and writes and
large blocks out of the underlying
61. Keep the UI thread responsive
Use asynchronous APIs.
Async /Await
Offload work to background threads.
Calculating of computer AI in a game
63. Make Animations Smooth
Use independent instead of dependent animations .
Dependant animations Independent animations
UI thread creates the animation
tree.
Each frame is generated on the
UI thread and sent individually to
the compositor.
Compositor renders the scene.
UI thread creates the
animation tree.
Compositor takes over and
runs the animation.
64. Make Animations Smooth
Independent animations Dependant Animations
Object animations using
key frames
Zero-duration animations
Canvas.Left and
Canvas.Top
UIElement.Opacity
SolidColorBrush.Color
Render Transform
Projection
Clip
EnableDependentAnimation
property.
BitmapCache independent
animations considered
dependent because the cache
must be rerasterized for each
frame.
65. Make Animations Smooth
Don't animate a WebView :
Swap it with a WebViewBrush for the duration of the
animation .
Use infinite animations sparingly .
Adding ahandler for CompositionTarget.Rendering is
similar to running an infinite animation.
Use the animation library:
(Windows.UI.Xaml.Media.Animation )
66. Optimize media resources
Release media streams.
Display full screen video playback when possible.
Put other elements to the side of embedded video.
Delay setting the source for a MediaElement .
Set MediaElement.PosterSource.
Match video resolution with device resolution.
Choose recommended formats.(MP4,MP3,H.264)
67. Optimize media resources
Scale images to the appropriate size :
DecodePixelWidth & DecodePixelHeight instead width
and height.
Use GetThumbnailAsync for thumbnails.
Decode images once.
68. Minimize suspend/resume time
Serialize only when necessary .
Use Xml Serializer:
The lowest serialization and deserialization times
Reduce memory footprint:
Freeing as much memory as possible at suspension
Release resources.
69. Reduce battery consumption
Remove unnecessarily timers .
Don’t use animations in snap view.
Reducing the frequency at which you poll for new
info using web services.
70. References
Windows RT.
31 days of Windows 8.
Windows 8 Samples.
Local Database in Windows Store app.
Windows 8 APP UX.
Performance best practice for Windows Store Apps.
Windows Store Investigation.
Code reuse between WP 8 and Windows 8.
79. Avoid unnecessary elements.
Bad Code
<Grid>
<!-- BAD CODE DO NOT USE.-->
<Rectangle Fill="Black"/>
<!-- BAD CODE DO NOT USE.-->
</Grid>
<!-- BAD CODE DO NOT USE.-->
Best Practice
<Grid
Background="Black" />
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