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Hi my name is Kevin. I’ve been a tester with PLATO Testing for three years. In that time, I’ve found some tools that were very helpful to me starting out as a tester, that I wish I had known about sooner.
First, it is important to have music listening apps like Spotify to...
Read more…The last time I watched the 1999 film The Matrix was around 15 years ago and I was absolutely way too young. I finished the movie having no understanding of what had happened or what it had been about. So, when I saw that it was on Netflix, I decided to revisit the movie I had...
Read more…Containers are a specialized form of virtualization, but their increasing and varied usage make them a topic in themselves. Containers have been around since the early 1980s, but with the spreading adoption of DevOps methodologies, their popularity has taken off. Here we give...
Read more…Virtualization is a broad area. Here we delve into three types of virtualization: platform virtualization, network virtualization, and service virtualization. All three types are of high interest in software development. A separate article in this newsletter will discuss...
Read more…I’d like to start out by introducing you to Focus Professional Services Inc. [Focus]. Just like PQA, Focus offers software QA outsourcing services, and just like the PLATO initiative, Focus is a diverse employer. The difference is that our employees are on the autism spectrum....
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