Bøger af Scott Tilley

Precious Publishing Academy hosted eight monthly poetry workshops in the Fall of 2022 and Spring of 2023. Each session was a celebration of words, weaving magic around special events and holidays, from the heartfelt verses of "A Labor of Love" (September 3) to the vivid imagery of "Showers & Flowers" (May 6). Participants, ranging from budding poets to seasoned versifiers, shared their souls through poems resonating with these themes. Poems of the Moment is a collection of poetry and a tapestry of emotions, capturing these unique moments in time. As one participant eloquently said, "These workshops were not just about writing poems; they were about living them."

This is a complete collection of "Technology Today" columns from 2013. The column appears each week in the business section of the Florida Today (Gannett) newspaper, serving the Space Coast region of eastern Florida. The theme of 2013 was our connected world, which was reflected in stories related to privacy (Edward Snowden and the NSA), complexity (HealthCare.gov), and fragility (vulnerable infrastructure and digital device dependency).

This is a complete collection of "Technology Today" columns from 2012. The column appears each week in the business section of the Florida Today (Gannett) newspaper, serving the Space Coast region. The main theme of 2012 was the evolution of computing at the edge (mobile computing), at the center (cloud computing), and in the connections (social computing) of our technical infrastructure.

This is a collection of short stories written between 2004 and 2014. Some of the stories have a serious theme, such as living well with diabetes, but most of them are meant to be more lighthearted. What do you do upon finding a huge spider in the bathroom just inches from your face when you are sitting down to business? What's it like to struggle with unfamiliar technology (such as a malfunctioning electronic fob to start a car) while freezing in the depths of winter? How would you react when attacked by rampaging swans? They may look cute, but they're vicious beasts. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise!

This is a complete collection of "Technology Today" columns from 2014. The column appears each week in the business section of the Florida Today (Gannett) newspaper, serving the Space Coast region of eastern Florida. The theme of 2014 was hacks, fracks, and quacks, which was reflected in stories related to computer security, energy innovation, and medical technology.

Some of today's computer hackers are driven by money, but some of them do it as part of a social activist agenda. They are known as "hacktivists," and one of the largest hacktivists organizations is called Anonymous. Their members wear masks to remind people of the original Guy Fawkes who tried to overthrow the British government 400 years ago. Anonymous recruits members from around the world - and they want you to join them. This is Volume 5 in the "Technology Today" series, a collection of Tilley's newspaper columns that appear each week in Florida Today (Gannett).

President Trump's campaign motto, "Make America Great Again," inspired the title of this book because technology also needs to be made great again. Technology today has become too complicated, too insecure, and too unreliable. We're often baffled by the behavior of the electronic devices in our lives. This needs to change. We can do it. This is Volume 7 in the "Technology Today" series, a collection of Scott Tilley's newspaper columns that appear weekly in Florida Today.

Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2016 was "surreal." According to the online dictionary, surreal is "used to express a reaction to something shocking or surprising." Surreal is also a good word to describe some of the key events in the technology world that took place in 2016. In particular, advances in artificial intelligence and big data, and continuing problems with cybersecurity. This is Volume 6 in the "Technology Today" series, a collection of Scott Tilley's newspaper columns that appear weekly in Florida Today.

Smartphone users have come to expect high-quality apps. This has increased the importance of software testing in mobile software development. Unfortunately, testing apps-particularly the GUI-can be very time-consuming. Exercising every user interface element and verifying transitions between different views of the app under test quickly becomes problematic. For example, execution of iOS GUI test suites using Apple's UI Automation framework can take an hour or more if the app's interface is complicated. The longer it takes to run a test, the less frequently the test can be run, which in turn reduces software quality. This book describes how to accelerate the testing process for iOS apps using HadoopUnit, a distributed test execution environment that leverages the parallelism inherent in the Hadoop platform. HadoopUnit was previously used to run unit and system tests in the cloud. It has been modified to perform GUI testing of iOS apps on a small-scale cluster-a modest computing infrastructure available to almost every developer. Experimental results have shown that distributed test execution with HadoopUnit can significantly outperform the test execution on a single machine, even if the size of the cluster used for the execution is as small as two nodes. This means that the approach described in this book could be adopted without a huge investment in IT resources. HadoopUnit is a cost-effective solution for reducing lengthy test execution times of system-level GUI testing of iOS apps.

This book summarizes the current hard problems in software testing as voiced by leading practitioners in the field. The problems were identified through a series of workshops, interviews, and surveys. Some of the problems are timeless, such as education and training, while others such as system security have recently emerged as increasingly important. The book also provides an overview of the current state of Testing as a Service (TaaS) based on an exploration of existing commercial offerings and a survey of academic research. TaaS is a relatively new development that offers software testers the elastic computing capabilities and generous storage capacity of the cloud on an as-needed basis. Some of the potential benefits of TaaS include automated provisioning of test execution environments and support for rapid feedback in agile development via continuous regression testing. The book includes a case study of a representative web application and three commercial TaaS tools to determine which hard problems in software testing are amenable to a TaaS solution. The findings suggest there remains a significant gap that must be addressed before TaaS can be fully embraced by the industry, particularly in the areas of tester education and training and a need for tools supporting more types of testing. The book includes a roadmap for enhancing TaaS to help bridge the gap between potential benefits and actual results. Table of Contents: Introduction / Hard Problems in Software Testing / Testing as a Service (TaaS) / Case Study and Gap Analysis / Summary / Appendix A: Hard Problems in Software Testing Survey / Appendix B: Google App Engine Code Examples / Appendix C: Sauce Labs Code Examples / References / Author Biographies

With software testing continuing to be an important part of the software engineering life cycle, the emergence of software testing in the cloud has the potential to change the way software testing is performed. This is a comprehensive collection of research by leading experts in the field providing an overview of cloud computing and current issues in software testing and system migration.

For a large, complex system, the amount of test cases in a regression test suite can range from a few hundred to several thousands, which can take hours or even days to execute.