#usecase testing

[qa-programmer]

Tech giants like IBM and Deloitte is doing this to improve overall testing efficiency!!

In the ever-evolving world of software development, increasing the power of testing is essential. From large technology companies like Deloitte and IBM to startups and small IT companies, everyone wants to optimize their testing efficiency. A common strategy that everyone follows to achieve this is use case testing. Usecase testing has proven to be a very successful method of improving software testing efficiency. In this approach, many instances of the system are selected and tested individually to see if it works as expected. This article explains the benefits of use case testing, its implementation, best practices, and how it impacts test efficiency.

Software testing is considered one of the most important parts of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). This makes the product very reliable and easy to use. However, testing is expensive and time-consuming, especially when there are many use cases to consider. Following use case testing is a great way to simplify the entire testing process and increase productivity and efficiency.

What is use case testing?

Use Case testing is a functional testing technique that defines test scenarios based on transactions and covers the entire system from start to finish. It is used to identify areas in a software application that cannot be detected by testing a software component. A use case is an interaction between a user and a software application. Unlike traditional testing, use case testing focuses on system performance, ensuring that the system meets user expectations and performs flawlessly in real-world environments.

Steps to implement Use-Case Testing

1. Define your cases

The first and most important step in implementing Use case testing is to define the various test cases for your software system. You can use methods like requirements analysis and other methods to test your use cases.

2. Defining test cases

After defining the use cases, you need to define the appropriate test cases for each use case. Test cases should include the detailed requirements for the test case, the expected results, and the test items that will be required.

3. Run the test cases

After defining the test cases, run them. It is important to follow the steps specified in the test case, verify the results, and report any errors that may occur during the test.

4. Analysis of Results

The last step in implementing use case testing is to analyze the test results. By examining the data, testers can identify problems and bugs and help developers fix them.

The benefits of use case testing

Increase test coverage

During use case testing, various user interactions are considered so that all aspects of the software can be tested to the highest standards.

Improved Error Detection

The main appeal of use case test cases is their ability to uncover bugs and vulnerabilities and reduce the risk of post-implementation problems.

User-Case Testing is geared toward the end-user experience. The result is software that not only works well, but also meets customer expectations.

Better communication and collaboration

Use case testing encourages communication and collaboration between developers, testers, and stakeholders. It ensures that everyone involved understands the software requirements and capabilities.

Best Practices for Testing Use Cases

It is important to follow best practices when testing your cases. Here are some good practices.

Proritize use cases

Not all use cases are created equal. It is important to rank use cases according to their importance to the operation of the software system and their impact on the user. Testing key use cases helps identify potential problems early in the development cycle.

Use Real Test Data

Test data must be realistic and representative of what the computer system will encounter in the real world. It helps to identify potential problems that may not be visible in synthetic test data.

Involve Stakeholders

We recommend that all stakeholders (including developers, testers, and users) be involved in the use case testing process. This makes it easy to verify that all requirements have been met and the software system will perform as expected.

Automated Testing

By automating case tests, you can increase your testing performance. This will reduce time and resource consumption. It reduces expenditure of time and resources. Automated testing is beneficial to testers because it helps identify issues and errors that are difficult to find with manual testing.

Popular tools for Use case testing

Selenium

Jira

TestRail

How can QA programmer help?

We at QA Programmer provide tailored use case testing solutions. Our automated testing methods can improve your company's testing efficiency. Professional QA Programmer testing uses a four-pronged approach to finding defects early in the lifecycle. The strategy includes selecting the right tools, technology, reporting models. We offer a tried-and-tested approach to analytics that has been used by many customers across a variety of industries.

In short, use case testing is a key strategy to improve software testing efficiency. By combining professional testing methods with real-world features and user interactions, companies can ensure the creation of robust, user-centered software.

[mxrp-official-steve]

Your May 2nd PARPdate: On time for once holy shit edition

Oh man look at that, the DB2 code can now show you where you fucked up the BBCode in your posts! Neat!

Ever since CherAmi launched, Hex has been directing more and more energy towards the upcoming DB2 chat-test alpha. And TODAY! We're gonna show off what they've gotten done!

Quirk system expansion.

(Hex is so much smarter than me so I'm just gonna let images roll for these)

"you could also have part of your suffix/prefix effected by quirks by simply defining the part you want quirked first, and then the part you want unquirked after

or place them literally anywhere in the list, to only be effected by specific quirks which come after it i had another plan too that i didnt quite manage to get implemented in rustblood but it's still in my mind

sandboxed javascript or lua for complete and total control over quirking for your character for very complex quirks that the rest of the system does not allow for"

We're currently toying with USER PROGRAMMABLE QUIRKS for maximum possible usecases. I could say more, but I literally don't understand anything Hex said so here's another screenshot.

(Shoutouts to a bunch of server regulars for being in these screenies!)

There's probably someone smarter than me that knows how to explain this. Ideally, this new system will provide users who know What This Shit Is to do a ton of fun new stuff with character quirks without creating too much confusing newfangledness on the end of your average user (in fact, your average user might never have to touch this system at all.) Fun stuff! We've even got it rigged to stop you mfs from running a Very Funny Quirk that recurses in on itself and explodes DBs brain.

Also random replacements / scramble are in so all your characters with Bottom! Modifiers can now keysmash with the touch of a button!

All of this is rough raw code and test fields right now, so what you're SEEING seeing isn't final, but we're SUPER glad to have been able to cart this out in front of you after the CherAmi beta launch stalled things out for a while!

[andmaybegayer]

Any recommendations/cautions about using Alpine Linux on the desktop? It's always intrigued me and you're the only person I've seen post about it

Alpine is pretty good for desktop, very stable, good security practice, professional development philosophy, broad package availability. You will run into some very obvious pitfalls, although they can mostly be obviated by using some modern applications.

The Alpine wiki is a little sparse and at times can be weirdly focussed, like spending a lot of the installation page talking about the very specific usecase of a diskless install. Nonetheless, it's quite good and should be your first port of call. A lot of the things I'm mentioning here are well covered in the article on Daily Driving for Desktop use. I'm basically just editorializing here.

The installation procedure is command-line only, but pretty straightforward, you run setup-alpine and follow the prompts, assuming you want a basic system. If you need special disk partitioning, you'll usually have to do it yourself. There's a whole whackload of helpers to get you set up, like setup-desktop which will help you install any of 'gnome', 'plasma', 'xfce', 'mate', 'sway', or 'lxqt'. Most of these are called by setup-alpine for you, but not the desktop one. You can call it at any time though.

Most obviously, musl libc, no glibc. Packaged software will work fine. There's a compatibility shim called gcompat that will usually work, but might fall apart on more complicated software expecting glibc, for example I've had no luck running glibc AppImages. For more complex software, Flatpaks are a good option, e.g. Steam runs great on Alpine as a Flatpak, I run the Homestuck Companion Flatpak. Your last ditch is containerization and chroots, which are fortunately really easy to handle, just install podman and Distrobox and you can run anything that won't run on Alpine inside a Fedora or Debian or Whatever container seamlessly with your desktop.

Less obviously: no systemd. Systemd underpins some really common features of modern Linux and not having it around means you have to use a few different tools that are anywhere from comparable to a little worse for some tasks. Packaged applications will work smoothly, just learn the OpenRC invocations, Alpine has a really great wiki. For writing your own services, it's a lot more limited than SystemD, you're not going to have full access to like, udev functionality, instead you get the good but kind of weird eudev system.

If you're mainly installing things from the repos you'll barely notice the difference, other than that every package is split up into three, <package>, <package>-docs, and <package>-dev. This is a container-y thing, to allow Alpine container images to install the smallest possible packageset. If you need man pages you'll have to install them specifically.

Alpine has a very solid main repo, and a community repo that's plenty good, and worth enabling on any desktop system. It'll generally be automatically enabled when you set up a desktop anyway, but just a notice if you're going manual. You can run Stable alpine, which updates every six months, or if you want you can run Edge, which is a rolling release of packages as they get added. Lots of very up-to-date software, and pretty stable as these go. You can go from Stable->Edge pretty easily, going back not so much.

There's also the Testing repo, only available on Edge, which I don't really recommend, especially since apkbuild files are so easy to run if you just need one thing that has most of its dependencies met.

Package management is with APK, which is fast and easy to work with. The wiki page will cover you.

Side note: if you want something more batteries-included, you could look at Postmarket, an Alpine derivative mainly focussed on running on smartphones but that is a pretty capable desktop OS, and which has a fairly friendly setup process. I run this on an ARM Chromebook and it's solid. Installation requires some reading between the lines because it's intended for the weird world of phones, so you'll probably want to follow the PMBootstrap route.

[silent-hill-2-official]

Apologies for necro-posting, but I looked through the notes and while people have given you some pros and cons, no one actually walked you through getting it up and running, and I might as well give my best shot at helping someone evacuate from windows 11, so here is the Jack Joy's Explanation and Guide to Linux. Chapter 0: The Pitch for the Penguin.

Linux is all about freedom. While Windows and MacOS are Walled Gardens that are slowly stripping away control from their users and extracting more and more from you, the person who is using a non-linux OS, Linux does not do that shit. Free and Open Source Software is the name of the game in Linux, as that is what is mostly being developed in that space by an army of volunteers passionate about keeping the PC personal. That comes with some caveats though. A lot of the software you use is proprietary, and while some of that is still available on Linux, most of it is not. Some you'll expect. Some you wouldn't think is even proprietary and will surprise you when you lose access to it. The Linux community has done it's best to provide solutions for a lot of these, and you will find that a lot of what you want to use has some alternative in linux, but some things will just be fucked. You trade convenience for control.

Chapter 0.5: When you are a King very few choices are simple

If the Pitch convinced you, then congrats, you now have one of the hardest decisions to make as a Linux User. What Distribution of Linux are we using? Distributions (or Distro's for short) are all different OS' who run on the Linux Kernel, the thing that gives your machine thought and makes it possible to run the hit video game Team Fortress 2 (2007). There are a lot of distributions of linux, all of which do weird things with it, but my personal Picks are as follows.

Linux Mint

Linux Mint is the gold standard for stupid simple linux distro. It just works*, it comes with a DE(desktop Enviroment) that is reminiscent of windows 7 so adjustment should be minimal and overall, is very uncomplicated. Is a bit bland tho. *(things still break sometimes).

Ubuntu

Ubuntu meanwhile you probably already heard of. Think of it as the MacOS of Linux. It has the most company support, it's DE called GNOME is very MacOS like in it's design language, incredibly stable, but also very poor in customization. If something says tested on linux, a lot of the time, it means tested on Ubuntu.

EndeavourOS

EndeavourOS is my linux distribution of choice. It's based off of Arch Linux, which is what powers the Steamdeck with SteamOS, and as such has a lot of nifty Arch linux niceties, like the Arch User Repository, and KDE Plasma as it's DE. It tries to combine being user friendly while letting you tinker with everything, it is on the cutting edge of linux, but that also means that stuff CAN break more often.

These are just my picks. Some other notable beginner friendly Linux Distros that might pique your interest could be Pop_Os, Manjaro, Elementary OS and probably a bunch of others that I forgot or don't even know exist until someone will complain at me for forgetting after writing this guide. Choice my friend. You have a lot of it, and so think about what you want from your PC and go with the distro that seems to be best suited for your usecase, whether it be as a game machine or to just use firefox and libreoffice.

Chapter 1: Performing OS Replacement Therapy on your PC

So, you know what Linux Distro you are gonna use, you know you are ready to do this, so how are we doing this? Pretty simple in all honesty. We only need:

A Flash drive (USB preferred, SD or micro SD card readers can get FUNKY)

Balena Etcher

The ISO of the flavor of Linux you want to use

Some knowledge of how to navigate your computers BIOS

And preferably a secondary boot device (IE, a second SSD in your PC)

Plug your USB into your PC, and with Balena Etcher flash your ISO onto it. If you got another USB to spare, it is a good idea to flash an image of Windows 7 onto it. Think of that second USB stick as a "In Case of Emergency, Break Glass" type of safety precaution. We don't wanna have to use it, but it's good to have just in case. Reboot your PC with your Linux flashed USB stick in, and get into your BIOS. There you are going to pull that USB stick up the boot loader until it goes before windows. If that is somehow not an option, you might have to fuck around with your PC as there might be some secure boot shennanigans going on. Consult DuckDuckGo about your specific Computer, someone already figured it out if there is a hiccup. If you were able to pull up your USB up the boot order, exit the BIOS and hopefully things should be happening. To confirm look at the screen and if it does something new (and potentially scary looking) instead of the normal windows boot sequence, it is probably doing good. After a while you should be spat back out into a "Live Enviroment" version of your OS. This version of the OS exists only for this boot, and is pulled from your USB stick. There should be an installer inside of that live enviroment version of your OS, after which it is mostly smooth sailing. Follow the Installer, but pay REAL GOOD ATTENTION to what it is sayin when it asks you where it wants to be installed, as it will create a partition somewhere on your PC. If you have a PC with an SSD that isn't being used by windows, I recommend giving it that as you'll just be able to give that entire drive to Linux without problem. If you don't have an extra SSD, you will have to cleave a chunk from the one drive you have from windows. You can just give it 50% of the drive if you want to be conservative and still retain the ability to go back to windows. But should you feel particularly pissed/want to make sure you have no escape back to windows without having to reinstall it via that second USB stick, then torch the damn thing. Once the Installer is done it will either ask you to reboot your PC or just do it itself. After which point if everything went right, you will complete your first boot of Linux and end up in the actual version of the OS you installed. If you made it there, congratulations, and welcome to Linux. You might want to update the first time you boot, but after that, feel free to poke around to see what you have installed. Get Acquainted with your new Desktop, use some of the artisanal software that is FOS, if you are feeling spicey, run some commands in the terminal (as long as you know what they do. please do not run sudo rm -rf / because you saw it on a funny linux meme, that will uninstall your entire OS.) I hope this Guide has been helpful ^w^.

Hey. Gonna gamble here. Can someone explain to me the pros and cons of Linux as a whole and tell me maybe -possibly- how one might go about getting something set up

[manhasderessaca-blog]

Sobre Arquitetura Limpa e inseguranças de uma dev júnior/pleno

[09/09/2024]

Acho que a pior parte de não ter tido a oportunidade de trabalhar com pessoas mais experientes é a sensação de que preciso tentar entregar tudo o mais perfeito possível, mas não sei exatamente *como*. Ou até sei, mas não o suficiente.

E essa sensação piorou significativamente quando entrei no projeto novo em que estou trabalhando. É um código em Flutter muito maduro, um aplicativo com mais de 3 anos de vida e escrito por desenvolvedores experientes.

O problema? Bem. Não existe exatamente um padrão no projeto. Um parte dele usa Arquitetura Limpa em sua melhor forma: arquivos de Repository, Datasource e UseCase bem separados.

Mas a outra parte do app (a maior parte dele) usa apenas uma versão simplificada de Repository e Datasource, sem UseCase.

Agora, toda vez que vou criar uma feature nova, perco umas 2h tentando lidar com a insegurança :P (Obrigada, devs sêniors que não estão mais no projeto e deixaram esse Frankenstein aos meus cuidados!).

Já trabalhei com Arquitetura Limpa antes, mas era muito mais fácil trabalhar com ela quando todo o aplicativo seguia um padrão só. Afinal, eu não precisava pensar muito na utilidade do UseCase antes de começar a escrever o código.

Ao invés disso, no meu trabalho atual eu fico pensando: por que ele escolheu não usar o usecase nessa outra feature? Foi uma escolha? Foi preguiça? Existem momentos em que o UseCase não é necessário? Eu estou escrevendo abstrações demais por nada?

DESCULPA, uma dev júnior que "ganhou" o cargo de pleno está surtando agora.

Esse texto meio diário, então, é uma sessão de estudo com um lembrete para mim sobre alguns conceitos importantes sobre os UseCases dentro da Arquitetura Limpa.

O papel dos UseCases

A Arquitetura Limpa preza pelas responsabilidades bem divididas entre as camadas da aplicação. O papel do UseCase é manter as operações/manipulações de dados separadas da camada de Apresentação.

"Os use cases são responsáveis por executar a lógica de negócios da aplicação, processar dados, realizar ações específicas e coordenar as operações que envolvem os repositórios ou serviços." - Por que precisamos do Use Case?

Esse artigo mitigou um pouco de uma das minhas maiores dores escrevendo UseCases: Tá, mas ele só tá chamando o Repository, por quê tô escrevendo ele? É uma abstração desnecessária?

A resposta é NÃO. Mesmo o UseCase mais simples é útil por causa de 3 fatores:

Separa a lógica de negócio da apresentação - Okay, esse é o objetivo principal do UseCase, mas isso é particularmente útil quando você precisar modificar a lógica relacionada a uma regra de negócio sem impactar negativamente a camada de Apresentação

Facilitar testes - A lógica de negócios isolada também dá mais uma vantagem: facilita na hora da criação de testes. Isso porque agora você não vai depender da implementação do Repository para implementar os testes. Você consegue escrever testes unitários para verificar se a lógica aplicadas às regras de negócio estão certas, criando mocks para simular o comportamento do Repository, por exemplo.

Manutenção de código - Se por acaso você decidir mudar a maneira como os dados são recebidos pela API, você pode fazer isso apenas mudando a implementação do Repository, sem mexer no UseCase.

Esse último tópico abriu os meus olhos para algumas coisas, inclusive. Recentemente o aplicativo passou por uma migração grande de uma parte das chamadas de API. O processo teria sido muito mais simples se tivéssemos um UseCase implementado nessa parte da aplicação!

Usei a Perplexyti.ai para conversar comigo me explicando melhor os conceitos para além das leituras, e foi muito útil! Considero que foi uma sessão de estudo bem produtiva :)

[gentlemonst3r]

heya! the thing about drill bits is that uh, they try to burrow themselves deep by design. i printed one out of tpu for let's say, testing purposes, and it just rams forward when being gripped in hand. can be a positive for your usecase, but i'd advise using something very low rpm to drive it ^^''

That's pretty cool! I wasn't planning on actually getting one since it would probably be really expensive (at least where I live), but it absolutely makes sense that you'd want it to be slow compared to a normal drill, I figured that would likely cause some serious damage otherwise even if it was made of a soft material

Thanks for sharing this! It's nice to think that my post inspired you ^^

[strategictech]

How to Red Team a Gen AI Model

Red teaming, a structured testing effort to find flaws and vulnerabilities in an AI system, is an important means of discovering and managing the risks posed by generative AI. The core concept is trusted actors simulate how adversaries would attack any given system. The term was popularized during the Cold War when the U.S. Defense Department tasked “red teams” with acting as the Soviet adversary, while blue teams were tasked with acting as the United States or its allies. In this article, the author shares what his specialty law firm has discovered what works and what doesn’t in red teaming generative AI. 

@tonyshan #techinnovation https://twitter.com/intent/follow?screen_name=tonyshan https://www.linkedin.com/comm/mynetwork/discovery-see-all?usecase=PEOPLE_FOLLOWS&followMember=tonyshan

[dungeonmalcontent]

Talking a little bit on polls, now that I've had some time to experiment with them.

Fun little tidbit, you can't see the results of ongoing polls you make unless you vote on them yourself. But in order to prevent the poll creator from skewing results, their votes aren't a whole vote. In the case of a tie, the poll creators vote will count as 1% less (ish). Which I think is neat.

Secondly, polls are actually a fantastic usecase for quick reblogs. Normally I don't like quick reblogs because they strip useful tags away from posts. But a poll mostly speaks for itself and reblogging a poll is always a good idea. Because the more people that vote on it the better the results are.

I am moderately bummed that you can't add a poll to something you reblog from yourself. Which complicates some of my character build by poll ideas. More testing is needed, but it looks like doing it by linked posts is just as effective.

If you would like to document some of your own poll findings, feel free to reblog and add on.

[living-between-zero-and-infinity]

mbler, curhat dong.

Halo tumblr, dah lama ngga nulis disini, soalnya medsos2 lain lebih menarik. Jadi mbler, aku sudah menikah dan hidup bahagia. Istriku sangat baik dan sabar. Kata orang menjalani pernikahan itu sulit. Tapi alhamdulillah ngga sulit2 bgt. Lebih banyak senengnya. Anyway, aku nggamau bahas pernikahan lah, nanti aja.

Aku mau bahas salah 1 atasanku cukup menarik, namanya pak ***. Sejak aku di-assign utk menghandle usecase di departement Network, itu sudah merupakan start yang cukup berat, karena Leader di Network sudah memiliki pandangan agak negatif terhadap mekanisme Data Scientist yang diputer2 (dirotasi), beberapa feedback negatif karna DS2 sebelumnya kurang business knowledge tentang Network membuatku memulainya dgn ekspektasi yang lebih tinggi. Karena bukan hanya sekedar intermezzo, skill DS itu memang terdiri dari 3 bidang. Statistics/Math, Programming/System Engineering, dan Business Knowledge. Tiga2nya harus kuat untuk menopang beratnya kehidupan dan cicilan.

Business Knowledge-ku cukup valid di Marketing yang memang dari awal aku di assign kesana, DS dgn role yang benar2 'Data Scientist' pertama yang dihire di department marketing. Sudah banyak kontribusi di Marketing, sehingga personal branding-ku sudah tinggi, apapun yang kukatakan, seolah2 punya level confidence yang tinggi. Berbeda di Network, aku mentah total, aku ngga tahu lapangan (atau setidaknya ngga pernah di lapangan), leader-leader disana ngga 'amaze' sama semua teknologi machine learning, AI, model matematika yg aku bisa, mereka tidak peduli apapun selain solusi yang solutif, mudah, dan actionable. Yang later, baru kusadari, solusi yang kutawarkan, berbeda dgn di Marketing dimana semuanya menggunakan 'mesin campaign', di Network, 1 solusi yg kutawarkan, dikerjakan oleh ratusan orang, sales di Area, yg jobdesknya akan berganti karna 1 proposed solutionku itu. Selain sangat repot karna aku harus mensosialisasikan 1 solusi dari atas kertas dan dibalik layar komputerku yg belum tentu benar ke teman2 Sales, beban berat juga menempel di pundak, karena jika 'Test & Learn' Campaign gagal, banyak orang yang bergerak dgn sia2, padahal hakikatnya TNL memang didesain untuk gagal, makanya ada kata 'Learn' dalam TNL.

Tapi yang lebih menarik adalah, ada salah 1 leader yang membuat vibes di setiap update progress meeting menjadi ruangan sidang skripsi (atau tesis?), karena setiap metode yang kupaparkan selalu dichallenge dgn brutal, detail dan penuh dgn adu keilmuan dan teori. Mulai dari design experiment, metode sampling, sampai dgn konsep matematika di dalam model Machine Learning, beliau paham dan berpengalaman. Teman DS yang suatu hari ikutan meeting-pun kaget, "buset, biasanya pak *** ngga gitu, wkwk", sayapun kaget karna dia kaget.

Long story short, aku baca2 blognya, si leaderku ini, kalo secara kualitas tidak diragukan lah, beliau S1 Telco, S2 MBA, puluhan tahun pengalaman di Telco, dan pernah jadi Senior DS juga kata temenku. Tapi yang menarik adalah aku nemu salah satu postingan di blognya dimana dia pernah menginterview lulusan Statistik yang dari profile sangat impressive, namun dia miss dalam teori dasar yang filosofis tentang beberapa konsep statistik. Misalnya, kalo kamu tau sedikit ttg statistik, coba pilih mana, "Mean/Median", "Harmonic Mean/Arithmatic Mean", "Is correlation indicate causation?", dst. Dan sampailah pada suatu diskusi dimana beliau masih ngechallange dan nyeplos, "Gimana mas Rio? Kamu kan lulusan Matematika". Sejak kapan saya bilang saya lulusan Matematika? Disitu aku mulai curiga beliau memang sengaja ngajak diskusi dan sedikit ngetes apakah ijazahku hanya lahir dari kebaikan dosen penguji dan KPI Fakultas untuk meluluskan mahasiswanya sebanyak mungkin. Ironi. Walaupun sedikit curang, karena beliau start puluhan tahun sebelum aku. Tapi aku jadi tertantang. Karena selama ini aku sudah cukup lama bekerja dengan kondisi ideal, tanpa tekanan, battleground yang sudah kupahami dgn baik, dan sebagai lulusan Matematika dgn track record dan kontribusi yang nyata di departement sebelumnya, pernyataan dan solusiku seolah jadi aksioma, a.k.a "benar tanpa harus dibuktikan". Tapi, sejujurnya, saat ini aku sedang tidak ingin upskilling, karna sebentar lagi dede bayi lahir, dan aku pengin kerjanya nyantai. Mana bentar lagi WFO full. Gimana ya, mbler?

[daytura]

four part ask

Atomicity is ill-defined. It's vague. That's the point. Once I tried defining it with dual values of specificity of content and distributivity of ideas, I stopped considering atomicity as a viable term entirely and focused on those two values.

I consider messy specificity is how qualifiably "rough" a piece of content is. Grammar, spelling, separation of ideas. Rough drafts are messier than final drafts. My FSNotes folder can be seen as a whole host of snippets of rough drafts.

"the clarity necessary for specificity precludes clutter" -> In my experience, clarity is a side effect of specificity and therefore not a guarantee. I define specificity as how detailed I am, regardless of whether these details are correct or wrong. Being wrong isn't the point. On a person level, I'm actually somewhat averse to clarity these days because that pursuit of clarity tends to make me perfectionist, which poisons the momentum of my work. If I want to be clear, I can write a blogpost.

"To me, 'Inspiration is remixing is combination is synthesis is transformation' is a paradigm example of this—these are not the same—and if they were, you wouldn't need to list them all." -> This is the part where I disagree with you the most. At a fundamental level (of my own personal understanding), they are the same. To me, these terms are fungible. That's why I'm using "is" and not "is like" so many times--I'm establishing a single unity beyond them.

(For the record, I wrote "the inspiration of (using) your notes" as a call to consider notes as a means to an end and not the end in of itself.)

Which word are you taking out of context? Specificity, or messiness? Regardless, both are integral aspects of my understanding of knowledge and it's subsequent export into digital.

With that said, yes, my advice would be markedly different for people with different usecases. If you're a graduate in academia, you're working with full-fidelity reference material and require alternate methods of organization (e.g. personal knowledge vs. reference material). If you're a high school student who wants to enrich their understanding, you might choose to make more serendipitous/surprising links between different notes. And so on and so forth. PKM never talks about this but you need to define your goal, your method, and the progression to that goal with your method. I guess they assume you've already done this but for people prone to executive dysfunction, it's unintuitive. For me, I've downscaled to FSNotes (incremental search note-taking app and a kind of extended working memory) and Dendron (hierarchical note-taking app and a more reliable long-term memory) but even they're a bit tentative since I'm still facing my dark night of the notes.

Again, atomicity is such an ill-defined concept that you can't even understand it by immersing yourself in all of the PKM blogposts and courses. What the hell even is atomicity? Does it mean explaining a single idea, independent of any and all past and future context? Does it mean writing an idea in less than 2 paragraphs? Does it mean writing out your thoughts in a way that you can remix them into modules later? The usage of the term atomicity by these productivity gurus implies a constraint that in practice fails to materialize, because there is no satisfying public definition. At this point, I have no idea what they're trying or even tried to get at. To see my personal definition of "atomicity", see point #1.

"What did you mean by 'emulator' in [the post about Obsidian as a testbench for experimental PKM structures and models]?" -> It's a comparison. "[Obsidian] reminds me of emulation in the sense that everything works as it should, but the slower speed makes it much better for small projects and quick testing. More directly, using Obsidian for experimental methods is like writing a grocery list in Microsoft Word – overkill, but absolutely doable."

[techniktagebuch]

10. Oktober 2019

Killerfeature Nicht piepsen

Beim Umzug vor fünf Jahren haben wir einfach das schon sehr alte Mikrowellengerät nicht mitgenommen. Es ging erstaunlich gut, vor allem, wenn man Reste gleich nach dem Essen aufißt, gibt es sehr wenig Aufwärmbedarf. Den Rest der Reste kriegt auch ein Herd hin.

Mit Kind wird vieles anders, besonders das Gläschenwärmen ist im Wasserbad kaum kompatibel mit dem volatilen Umschwung von noch satt zu fast verhungert. Ich recherchiere umfangreich. Das alte Gerät hatte zwei Drehschalter: Dauer und Watt, dazu einen Knopf für Tür auf und ein lautes Ping für Essen fertig.

Das ist heute natürlich ganz anders, ich erfahre mehr über Heißluftfritieren, Dampfgaren, Grill, Heißluft und sogar Joghurtprogramme, als ich je dachte. Obwohl mein Usecase nach wie vor vor allem »kaltes Gläschen → warmes Gläschen« ist, nehme ich die Recherche sehr ernst, man will ja keinen Ramsch kaufen, ich entscheide mich auch tatsächlich für ein Topmodell mit Siegel der Stiftung Warentest (dort hatte ich für kleines Geld einen mehrseitigen Test als pdf gekauft. Außer Dampfgaren kann die neue Mikrowelle alles.

Gläschen werden warm: Check. Die Heißluftfriteusenfunktion: naja, und vor allem: wer möchte sich auf Fritiertes bis max. 350 Gramm vor dem Fritiervorgang beschränken? Der Grill: im Vergleich zum Backofen nicht der Burner. Das Joghurtprogramm: kommt in meiner Lebenswelt nicht vor.

Als das Killerfeature erweist sich etwas anderes: Kommt von Haus aus jede der vielen Tasten mit Tönen zusätzlich zum extra lauten Ping für fertiges Essen, kann man mit einer einfachen Tastenkombination alle Töne ausschalten – inklusive des finalen Fertig-Pings. Dauerhaft. Der Gewinn an Lebensqualität dadurch ist unermeßlich. Und wer weiß, vielleicht kann das nächste Modell dann sogar ohne Uhr auskommen, die eh nur ständig auf Sommerzeit gestellt werden will.

(Felix Neumann)

[rickytwister]

Pylon Network is the Moonshot of 2020

Pylon Network (PYLNT) has max supply of 633858 only and sitting at a ridiculously low marketcap of 390k approx. They recently got listed on idex and have recently released updated tokenomics. What we are about to witness is outcome of hardwork of 4-5 years.

First lets understand what the project is all about. PYLNT is a blockchain for energy sector and helps world save energy and consumers their energy bills. Apart from this they are also working on P2P energy trading marketplace, where companies can trade their energy credits (research about Copenhagen summit for this usecase). So they have built a tech, which when implemented , automatically helps companies and people save on energy. In simple language, The tech automatically handles the diversion of surplus energy, provides realtime data and improves efficiency.

As per their new token model, every company from now on will have to market buy tokens and stake in order to be able to run federated Nodes and implement pylon. So a lot of buy pressure is coming up.

They are already being used at 4 muncipalities and few private companies and they recently got contract to implement spain's first renewable energy project.

I feel so proud to see, Pylon team is working on an inclusive approach where token holders share in the business success.

500k only in circulation and low marketcap. Lot's of marketing coming before month end.

Let's also understand more about the project and it's History

It's a highly technical project that boast of several accolades from Individuals and governments. For example, Their Chairman won Engineer of the year award in 2017 , apart from that some of the other positives include but not limited to

   Working partnership with Basque Country’s energy cooperative, GoiEner    Partnership with Denmark based GreenHydrogen    Received the prize from Spain Tech Center, being selected unanimously as the most innovative from all finalist startups, to represent Spain in Silicon Valley    Launched decentralized renewable energy exchange pilot in partnership with Ecooo.    Partnership with the community of Freetown Christiania, Denmark.    The Merchants Association of the San Fernando Market, partner-consumer of the energy cooperative La corriente, joins the Pylon Network pilot test and successfully completes the installation of what is now, the first “Metron” in Madrid, Spain.    Partnered with eGEO for the development of a certified energy meter    Spanish company Mirubee integrates Blockchain technology and Pylon Network open source software in its energy meters.    The only Spanish company invited by the Danish Government to improve public services.    Last October, Pylon Network was selected as winners of World Summit Awards (WSA) in the Green Energy & Environment category.    Working partnership with Energisme    Awarded by WAS (A UN Subsidary) and much more

The list above is very small, and a lot more has been done.

Pylon Network was awarded by UN and featured and hugely refrenced in research articles published by scientists/professors from Institute of Sensors, Signals and Systems, Heriot-Watt University, dinburgh, UK, Department of Anthropology, Durham University, Durham, UK, Siemens Energy Management, Hebburn, Tyne and Wear, UK, School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK Highest Award winning team in Crypto.

Project widely in use and being appreciated by reputed science Orgs.

Why you should invest in Pylon ?

Firstly they have started getting regular work contracts in EU region, hence it has now become a revenue generating project and Token holders earn a percentage of revenue share.

[u][i]Low supply, low marketcap and team has confirmed a lots of marketing coming once the tokenomics and mainnet details are out next week.[/i][/u]

The best part is, Pylon isn't in speculation or upcoming phase like other projects, that "this will happen"/"this will come" etc etc , it is already live at various municipalities in and around Spain, so the risk factor has gone. Team will be expanding to other regions of EU and USA pretty soon.

To make it easier for you to understand, what all has been achieved, I went through various artices from past and collated the following for you. These are some of the achievements, team has procured till date. This is not an exhaustive list and there is much much more to the project. But still it will provide you better picture on the hardwork that has gone into the project.

August 2017

Chosen as one of the finalist startups in South Summit 2017

Working partnership with Basque Country’s energy cooperative, GoiEner Interviewed by a spanish media company, El Referente Guto Owen, a highly experienced energy & environment consultant for governments and private sector clients in UK & internationally, joins as Advisor.

September 2017

Cristina Carrascosa, highly experienced blockchain lawyer, education from London School of Economics, Author of various Blockchain Books, Joins the team. Started discussions with Greenpeace for probable collaboration. Code audit by Entropy Factory. Partnership with Denmark based GreenHydrogen

October 2017

Received the prize from Spain Tech Center, being selected unanimously as the most innovative from all finalist startups, to represent Spain in Silicon Valley Presented at Bitcoin meetup The Cube, La Ingobernable, Madrid. Article published in Energias Renovables, most prestigious magazine of Spain on renewable energies. Partnership with the community of Freetown Christiania, Denmark.

Presented at series of meet-ups around Spain and Europe in Copenhagen, Madrid, San Sebastian, Bilbao and others. Finalized details of pilot project in order to improve the energy distribution and management, within Christiania’s micro-grid.

November 2017

Published Press releases in various online magazines. Organized few meetups in Basque country.

Launched decentralized renewable energy exchange pilot in partnership with Ecooo. Trip to Silicon Valley and participation in a 2-week accelerator program in San Francisco. Presented at Embarcadero center in downtown San Francisco.

December 2017

Meetings with Marine Clean Energy and Sonoma Clean Power of Califronia. Visited Blockchain EXPO North America, and met with various crypto players. Visited Plug&Play Tech Center. Visited offices of Silicon Valley Power and Palo Alto Public Utility. Introductory talks with E-On Accelerator (DK), Accelerace (DK) and GridVC (FIN)

Jaunuary 2018

Panel member at European Energy Transition Conference 2018 – Geneva, Switzerland! Presented together with GoiEner at Ateneo de Madrid – Energy & blockchain forum – ICADE, Madrid.

Released screenshots of the platform’s alpha version. Participation in Ateneo (ESP) and European Smart Cities (CH) conferences. Code release for first fully functional blockchain algorithm, designed specifically for the needs of the energy sector.

February 2018

Demo version released for Public. Presented at University of Oxford. Presented at TechHub Swansea, Wales.

March 2018

Installed the first Pylon based “Metron” energy meters at users of the GoiEner energy cooperative, in a real environment.

April 2018

Presented at

EventHorizon (Berlin, GERMANY). EventHorizon is the ONE exclusive annual event centered on energy blockchain solutions for a future based solely on renewable resources. EnergyCities (Rennes, FRANCE). The role of blockchain in the energy transition of cities NIRIG (Belfast, IRELAND).

May 2018

Installed first “Metron” energy meter in Madrid :- The Merchants Association of the San Fernando Market, partner-consumer of the energy cooperative La corriente, joins the Pylon Network pilot test and successfully completes the installation of what is now, the first “Metron” in Madrid, Spain.

Partnered with eGEO for the development of a certified energy meter called – METRON- which will integrate blockchain and the Pyloncoin payment method. First version of METRON dApp launched.

June 2018

Presented at

ENTSO-E, Brussels, Belgium.

ENGIE Global Team Representatives, Madrid, Spain Social Enterprise Leaders Forum (SELF), Seoul, S. Korea. Transactive Energy & Blockchain, Vienna, Austria. RESCoop.eu General Assembly, Milan, Italy.

July 2018

Prosumers and Pyloncoin dynamic payment system integration.

Presented at

Smart Energy Wales, Organised by Renewable UK (Cymru). MARESTON, organised by MARES Madrid. Spanish Foundation for Renewable Energy, Malaga, Spain.

October 2018

Spanish company Mirubee integrates Blockchain technology and Pylon Network open source software in its energy meters.

November 2018

Published the most up-to-date version of its Blockchain Open Source Code and invited energy market players to use it. Pyloncoin Blockchain Explorer released.

January 2019

Presented at Energy Revolution Congress – Valencia, Spain

February 2019

Updated Whitepaper and Tokenomics Released. Interviewed by Sustainable Energy magazine, The Energy Bit.

March 2019

Presented at

GENERA Energia – Madrid, Spain. CTEC – Barcelona, Spain.

May 2019

The only Spanish company invited by the Danish Government to improve public services.

Presented at

Intersolar (Munich, Germany) ,the largest Solar Energy Conference in the industry. UNEF (Organised by the Spanish Union of PV technology) – Madrid, Spain

June 2019

Launched community reward program. Webinar :- the impact of new regulations on the self-consumption landscape in Spain. Belén Gallego, serial Entreprenuer, Public Speaker, Energy Consultant, Founder ATA Insights, Joins Pylon team.

July 2019

Participated in round table conference, Vinalab – Ruta Hackathon

August 2019

Participated in EPRI event :- Presented Pylon Network to investors and US utilities, who were interested to explore the blockchain/ energy landscape.

September 2019

Presented at The Madrid Energy Conference along with representatives of companies such as IBM, Shell etc

October 2019

Presented at International Conference of Energy Communities – Lisbon Presentation in Plug & Play Europe Event – Berlin Foro Solar Conference – Madrid WeekINN Conference – San Sebastian IoT World Congress – Barcelona

Formed Partnership with Energisme

November 2019

Presented at ACOCEX Conference The Unconference Valencia Startup Week – Barrio La Pinada event

December 2019

Proudly mentioned in various Spanish media, for delivering energy efficiency impact for local communities: the Valencian Municipality of Canet achieved a 12% reduction on their annual electricity costs, with the support of simple, consumer-centered and consumer-friendly energy services of Pylon Network!

[u][i]National Winner AT WSA Awards by United Nations[/i][/u]

January 2020

Started releasing Educational Video Series Presented at Presentation at CMES, Barcelona Interview published by The online media outlet “The Daily Chain”

February 2020

Presented at GENERA International Trade Paco Negre Assigned as New CFO of Pylon Network Javier Cervera appointed as chairman of Pylon Network! Javier has been recognized as the engineer of the year for 2017 and as the vice-president of AEE – the Association of Energy Engineers.

March 2020 Listing confirmed on Idex (Trading went live in April) Presented at Effie solar virtual conference

[shephertzai]

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[amrselim]

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[alecatmew]

Using the USB connection to drive Squid Beakon colours

So I’ve been thinking for a while, “wifi control of these lamps is all well and good, but I’d really rather push data over a serial connection so that I can avoid having to set up wifi networks. Also, serial just makes more sense for high throughput usecases, eg sending a continuous stream of updates”

“…Too bad WLED doesn’t have a serial API”

You know what they say about when you assume things? I don’t know why I never really looked it up, but I just figured that WLED didn’t have serial support. Turns out it actually supports multiple protocols, and as of 0.13.0 it can receive the same JSON commands via serial as it does via wifi.

So here’s a little video of a proof of concept I put together, to learn a couple of things. It’s my first time playing around with web serial – I lifted heavily from this Codelab to get things working.

If you own one of my USB powered lamps, you can test out the controls at this link: https://difficult-clean-scapula.glitch.me 

Note that the proof of concept page is very rough around the edges, and it only supports solid colours.

"Using the USB connection to drive Squid Beakon colours" was originally published on Proairesis

[strategictech]

AI software testing explained by Perforce

We recently caught up with Stephen Feloney from Perforce and chatted about the future of software testing, how AI is transforming operations for testing teams, how Perforce's testing tool BlazeMeter is helping developers, and much more. 

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