In recent years software organizations strives for client satisfaction and for that reason testing focus changes more on what customer needs. Acceptance Test- Driven Development is one of the wonderful testing practices where business users will get to test the product, which makes this practice not only be most important for client but is the last major test before delivery. In this article I will present how to create Acceptance Testing Driven Development tests in .NET using SpecFlow. SpecFlow is an open source tool, it integrates with Visual Studio. You can define automated test using Selenium Web Driver for browser interaction, write scenarios in 100 % Gherkin language and automation code in C#.

The growing need of UI/UX designers in Cluj is proof of the maturity of the IT field, registered especially in the past years. This article is meant to help both companies and products that need UX designers and UX designers themselves. A designer’s efficiency derives not only from his creative processes, but also from his ability to analyze and rehash product information. The following paragraphs will reveal more about the preliminary stage, the stage of research and analysis (the User Experience Audit). This process has the very clear role of identifying if, and to what extent, a product may need an upgrade regarding its direct relationship with the user/client.

“The most interesting parts of a conference are the coffee breaks” That is a key idea on which the concept of “unconference” was based upon. That the networking and information transfer, the best part of a conference, happens in a more efficient and enjoyable manner between sessions. Also known as an open space conference, an unconference steers away from the classical concept of fixed conferences with predetermined subjects of discussion.

There are still a few days left until Cluj IT Days, an event that has reached its third edition and has grown year after year. We have almost 320 participants, and if you hurry up, registration is still possible. For a good perspective, we have asked some of the speakers to describe their presentation, the target public and what the participants will be able to learn from the event.

Big Data has become one of today’s most frequent buzzwords and the web is full of articles describing it and defining it. But behind all that hype, the paradigms imposed by this buzzword and the technology stacks that enable it, continue both to grow as exponents and as companies who adopt it. Speaking about Big Data and it’s technologies, we unequivocally have to speak about Hadoop, since it’s the cornerstone for all emerging Big Data technologies.

Timisoara Startup Hub,​B​anat IT Association and A​RIES­TM a​re bringing back HackTM ­ the b​iggest software & hardware hackathon in the South Eastern Europe.​ The second edition of the hackathon will take place on 6 ­- 8 November and the hacks will be held at Heaven Event Venue.

1000+ tech professionals will get together on November 26 & 27 for the 6th edition of How to Web Conference, the most important event on tech innovation & entrepreneurship in South-Eastern Europe. They will meet some of the best & brightest minds in the region, listen to hands-on talks and practical case studies, and get to feel the vibe of the CEE startup ecosystem. The 4th edition of the Startup Spotlight competition and mentoring program will be organized in parallel, bringing together 32 promising startups that will compete for the USD 20.000 cash prizes offered by IXIA Romania.

Responsive web design started three years ago when media queries made it to W3C’s recommended standard in June 2012. It was the most anticipated CSS feature at that time (the one that put responsive before web design) and it became a game changer that would open a door of endless possibilities for designers and developers alike. The most important trend that followed shortly after its introduction was mobile first.

Smart Home is one of the most popular Internet of Things (IoT) use-cases in the consumer space and with a lot of exposure to the software engineers due to the increasing number of product manufacturers that are forced to offer value-added services to keep up with competition. Smart Home is more than Home Automation: it adds Broadband, Entertainment Energy optimization, Health and Security on top of Automation. As an important player in the field of IoT and Industrial IoT (IIoT), Accenture has already a major contribution in Smart Home domain offering end-to-end solutions and platforms to its customers, under the name of Connected Home.

The PHP language started as a simple collection of C binaries used for maintaining a simple web page. Today, PHP runs on millions of webservers and is ranked very high on the list of the most popular programming languages in the world . Its most intense growth of popularity happened in the first half of the 2000s, followed by an accelerated development and maturing process of tools and frameworks of this ecosystem.