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Z-Wave Open Sourced for Smart Home Applications Interested in adding network-connected thermostats, refrigerators, lighting, or security devices in your home? A portion of the most widely deployed wireless communications protocol in home automation has become available as open source, which may mean broadening availability of smart home technology. |
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How to Successfully Transition from Manual Testing to Full-Stack Automation Transitioning from manual testing to full-stack automation is a noble, yet laborious journey. Thuc Nguyen provides a guide to aid in a successful transition from manual testing to full-stack automation. |
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What the Internet of Things Desperately Needs Is Standards IoT is the latest trend that’s producing new connected devices that change how we interact with our environment. We’ve barely scratched the surface of what IoT can achieve, but before we can really hit our stride in this industry, all the different players needs to agree on a standard. |
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Government’s Federal Source Code Policy Mandates 20 Percent Open Source In an attempt to reduce duplicating government IT and software resources, the US federal government recently announced the “Federal Source Code” policy, which requires new custom-developed source code used by federal agencies to be made available for sharing and reuse government-wide. |
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Finding a Middle Ground between Exploratory Testing and Total Automation The automator wants to get rid of human exploration—they want a robot to cut down a forest and stack the wood. The explorer, on the other hand, sees tools more like a chainsaw—they allow humans to go ten times faster, but a human is still driving the process. Finding a middle ground is the best test strategy. |