This article explores the breadth and challenges of operational data, outlines high‑level use cases such as knowledge graphs, automated fault assessment, unattended change management, and dynamic thresholds, and provides practical guidance for integrating these advanced scenarios into DevOps and AIOps workflows.
This article explains why API testing has become essential in modern agile and IoT‑driven development, outlines the API testing pyramid, covers HTTP and REST fundamentals, and provides practical guidance on selecting tools, creating functional and load tests, and ensuring early, rapid feedback.
This article explores Alibaba’s effort to automate code generation by converting product requirements into standardized design language and leveraging AI and machine learning to bridge the gap between natural language specifications and executable frontend code.
This article categorises the most popular 2020 DevOps tools—development/build, automated testing, deployment, runtime, and collaboration—explains why each tool topped its class, lists key advantages, and compares notable competitors to help teams build a complete CI/CD pipeline.
This article explains four concrete distinctions between declarative and scripted Jenkins pipelines—including code validation at start‑up, the ability to restart from a specific stage, options block handling, and conditional execution with when—illustrated with side‑by‑side code examples and screenshots.
This article examines the most common obstacles agile testing teams encounter—from constantly changing requirements and neglecting cross‑browser testing to lack of automation, over‑emphasis on speed, unclear definitions of done, poor estimation, skill gaps, and technical debt—offering practical insights to address each issue.
This guide introduces howdoi, a lightweight command‑line utility that lets Linux users ask natural‑language questions and receive ready‑to‑run command snippets, covering installation, usage flags, and practical examples such as extracting files, managing cron jobs, and handling screen sessions.
This guide explains how to set up and use Jenkins multibranch pipelines—covering automatic branch and pull‑request discovery, conditional Jenkinsfile logic, GitHub webhook configuration, and troubleshooting—to create a fully automated CI/CD workflow for any Git‑based project.
The article outlines Meizu's transition from a music‑player company to a mobile and internet service provider, detailing the operational challenges faced across three internet eras, the development of a comprehensive automation and continuous delivery platform, and the role of big‑data‑driven insights in improving quality, efficiency, cost, and security.
The article details how the Tongtian Tower team adopted Puppeteer for end‑to‑end testing of their web‑based build system, covering technology selection, core concepts, API usage, project architecture, practical challenges, and the measurable efficiency gains achieved through automation.
After a year of DevOps pilot work, the Agricultural Bank of China's personal online banking system built a fully automated, end‑to‑end delivery pipeline covering configuration, build, test, deployment and monitoring, enabling rapid, reliable releases for a user base of over a hundred million.
PyDebloatX is a lightweight Python‑based GUI tool that lists and uninstalls pre‑installed Windows 10 apps such as Clock, Calendar, Maps, Weather, and Photos, offering simple shortcuts, clear prompts, and a GitHub repository for further customization.
This article demonstrates how to list fail‑list files on Linux, extract user names via shell string trimming, capture the output in a Jenkins pipeline, convert it into a Groovy array, and send individualized email notifications with the corresponding files attached.
This article details the Agricultural Bank’s Distributed Application Interconnection (AIR) platform’s DevOps journey, covering small‑granularity development, comprehensive configuration management, end‑to‑end automated pipelines, advanced testing automation, metric‑driven improvements, and the successful third‑level continuous delivery assessment across multiple projects.
Facing fragmented credit product development, Agricultural Bank built a micro‑service‑based credit middle platform and implemented a comprehensive DevOps pipeline—featuring lightweight branching, visualized continuous deployment, end‑to‑end traceability, three‑layer quality gates, and metric‑driven automation—that dramatically improved delivery speed, quality, and operational efficiency.
This article examines common pitfalls in software development—such as confusing task volume with real demand, over‑emphasising resource utilization, and relying on batch releases—and offers practical guidance on demand‑driven collaboration, flow efficiency, cross‑functional teams, automated testing, and continuous delivery to create higher‑value outcomes.
This article explains the challenges of traditional enterprise IT delivery, outlines the role of DevOps and continuous delivery, and presents a detailed case study of a large financial firm that achieved six‑fold deployment speed gains through standardized pipelines, artifact management, and automated cross‑team notifications.
This article describes a DevOps‑based continuous deployment practice that integrates project management, code, image, and configuration handling with tools such as Bitbucket, Jenkins, Docker, Harbor, and Kubernetes to achieve automated, one‑click deployments for development and test environments.
This guide provides a step‑by‑step tutorial on using Apache JMeter for performance testing, covering JDK and JMeter installation, creating a complete test script for a Baidu search API, configuring thread groups, HTTP requests, listeners, assertions, executing the test, and analyzing the aggregate report results.
JApiDocs is a zero‑annotation, out‑of‑the‑box SpringBoot tool that automatically generates API documentation, offers quick setup, HTML export, client model code syncing, and many other features to streamline backend development and reduce documentation overhead.
This guide explains how to install the howdoi command‑line utility, use its natural‑language queries to retrieve Linux command tutorials, and leverage options for multiple answers, verbose output, and custom queries, all with a few simple shell commands.
This article walks through using Python's os and shutil modules to obtain the system drive, list and delete files, create a startup entry, and force a Windows shutdown, illustrating a lightweight, educational example of a hacking‑style tool.
This tutorial walks through creating a Python script that scrapes video URLs from a web page, downloads them in batches with proper buffering, and displays a real‑time progress bar, covering page analysis, code implementation, and practical tips.
This guide explains how to use a Jenkins‑triggered shell script with Expect to regularly log into multiple remote VMs, record results, allow users to add hostnames, and commit changes to a Git repository for automated DevOps operations.
This tutorial walks you through building a Python web scraper that extracts recipe names, ingredients, and download links from the XiaChuFang cooking website, handling anti‑scraping measures with custom headers and fake user agents, and saves the collected data into a Word document for future use.
This guide outlines why manual testing can’t fully replace automation, then walks you through seven concrete steps—including data preparation, API testing, and web UI automation using tools like MySQL, Redis, SOAP UI, Postman, and Selenium with Java or Python—to become a proficient automation test engineer.
This guide shows three practical ways to execute custom scripts automatically after a Linux system starts—by editing /etc/rc.d/rc.local, configuring a crontab @reboot entry, or creating a systemd service—complete with commands, sample scripts, and troubleshooting tips.
This tutorial demonstrates how to use Python's platform module and /proc filesystem to gather Linux system and hardware information, format it into a report, extend the script to send the report via SMTP email, add timestamps, and schedule periodic execution with cron.
Meituan’s MySQL database inspection system uses a three‑layer architecture—execution agents managed by Crane, a metadata‑rich inspection database, and an integrated application UI—to run 64 automated checks, resolve over 8,000 hazards with sub‑four‑day remediation, and continuously improve automation and analytics.
This article explains the core DevOps philosophy—including Lean, Agile, CI, CD and Continuous Delivery—describes its five‑point framework of culture, automation, lean‑agile core, measurement and sharing, and details a three‑step implementation method of fast flow, fast feedback, and continuous learning with practical practices and examples.
This article explains how to use Swagger and Springfox to automate API documentation and testing in Java SpringBoot projects, covering the benefits of Swagger, integration steps, Maven dependencies, configuration examples, and how to access the generated interactive UI for faster, more reliable interface validation.
The article explains how a well‑defined technology roadmap, encompassing architecture, data governance, storage, analytics, and automation, is essential for aligning tools and techniques with business goals to achieve a successful, outcome‑driven enterprise data strategy.
The article argues that while code‑assisted (automation) testing is gaining popularity, its effectiveness depends on solid testing fundamentals, domain knowledge, and a balanced integration of manual and automated techniques rather than over‑relying on scripts alone.
This article explains how enterprises can classify structured, semi‑structured and unstructured data as “dark data”, why traditional RPA struggles with it, and how AI technologies like NLP, computer vision and machine learning—exemplified by Automation Anywhere’s IQ‑Bot—enable end‑to‑end automation of hidden information.
This article explains how to design, implement, and maintain a robust Configuration Management Database (CMDB) by focusing on simple modeling, establishing data closure loops, and efficiently handling existing inventory, while leveraging Kafka, Flink, Elasticsearch, and Neo4j for fast querying and topology visualization.
This tutorial walks through creating a MocoServer instance, configuring ports and log monitors, and using the moco API to define request‑response behavior, followed by a comprehensive Java utility class that simplifies server setup, monitoring, and lifecycle management for backend testing.
This article walks you through half‑automatic and fully automated deployment of a SpringBoot application using Docker, a custom Bash script, and Jenkins, covering project packaging, Dockerfile creation, script details, Jenkins SSH publishing, and practical tips for reliable CI/CD pipelines.
Learn how to automate the packaging, Docker image creation, and remote deployment of a SpringBoot application using a semi‑automatic script and Jenkins, covering Dockerfile setup, Bash deployment scripts, Jenkins Publish Over SSH configuration, and best practices for reliable production releases.
This guide demonstrates how to write parameterized Ansible playbooks for MariaDB installation and configure Jenkins pipelines to execute those playbooks, securely passing credentials and extra variables to achieve fully automated, repeatable database deployments.
This tutorial explains how to set up a GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline for a Docker‑based project, covering workflow file creation, YAML configuration, secret management, and verification of Docker image builds.
This article demonstrates how to set up a Jenkins Declarative Pipeline to automate the CI/CD workflow for a .NET Core project, covering stages such as checkout, restore, clean, build, test, publish, and email notifications.
This article introduces Nightwatch.js 1.3, outlines its new BDD interface, additional assertions and APIs, provides step‑by‑step installation of Nightwatch and browser drivers via npm, explains CLI options, demonstrates running a sample test, and offers guidance on unit testing and example projects.
The article demonstrates how a programmer can replace tedious manual Excel operations by using Python and pandas to batch‑process 128 sales spreadsheets, calculate brand‑level revenue, and dramatically reduce processing time from hours to seconds, illustrating a practical data‑analysis workflow.
This guide explains how to configure GitLab CI artifacts—including specifying paths, exposing artifacts in merge requests, customizing artifact names, controlling upload conditions, setting expiration times, and collecting test reports—while providing practical code examples and important usage notes.
An internal one‑stop performance testing platform was built to streamline workflow control, task management, and automated baselines, cutting test cycles by up to 80%, supporting shared resources, real‑time monitoring and future extensions for middleware automation and intelligent alerts.
This article explains GitLab CI cache configuration, including cache paths, keys, policies, and examples of global and job-specific caching, demonstrates pipeline execution and runner cache behavior, and provides best‑practice conclusions for effective CI/CD caching.
This article explains the challenges of operating many Kubernetes clusters in private‑cloud environments and presents a declarative, operator‑driven Kube‑On‑Kube architecture that dramatically cuts deployment, upgrade, and user provisioning time while remaining cloud‑native and infrastructure‑agnostic.
The article describes a full‑field automation framework for Dubbo services that validates both read and write interfaces by routing identical requests to base and project environments, generating ignore‑field maps via object‑to‑map conversion, and orchestrating multi‑round TestNG executions to achieve exhaustive field verification while dramatically improving test‑case authoring efficiency.
JMock is a zero‑configuration, intelligent mocking platform that simplifies service dependency testing for backend applications by providing Maven‑based SDK integration, automatic environment detection, configurable mock switches, diverse data sources, and automatic data generation to accelerate development and reduce testing overhead.
This guide compiles essential MySQL security steps, master‑slave replication principles, backup scripts, Linux boot overview, common port services, virus mitigation, monitoring tools, nginx optimization, InnoDB lock troubleshooting, replication lag reduction, high‑availability components, data migration utilities, and automation configuration management techniques for operations engineers.
This article outlines practical quality assurance strategies—including outsourcing QA teams, integrating testing early in the development lifecycle, and adopting automation frameworks—to improve software quality, reduce costs, and support business growth in digital transformation initiatives.
This tutorial explains how to install GitLab Runner on various platforms, register it in different modes, and use common commands to manage CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration, including Docker-based setups and example pipeline configurations.
This guide demonstrates how to programmatically pull date, title, and document number fields from thousands of similarly structured Word tables, normalize the dates, and export the data into a formatted Excel spreadsheet using Python's docx, datetime, and openpyxl libraries.
This article recounts the journey of a Chinese fund company's infrastructure team as they transformed low‑efficiency manual operations into a standardized, automated DevOps workflow, detailing the challenges, decisions between self‑development and partnership, and future plans for security, CMDB, and PaaS evolution.
This article explores the challenges of component maintenance in micro‑frontend architectures, compares different component types, and presents a practical CLI tool that automates scaffolding, testing, documentation, and publishing to streamline the creation of a reusable, well‑documented component library.
This article explains how to implement infrastructure‑as‑code for CI/CD tools on a shared Kubernetes cluster by using a lightweight variable‑template engine, configuring Jenkins, Gogs, and Nexus via ConfigMaps, initContainers, and REST/Script APIs, and combining multiple automation techniques for seamless deployment.
This guide explains how to configure an Android project, write Python scripts for uploading APKs to Fir.im and Pgyer, create a Jenkinsfile with checkout, build, and upload stages, and set up Jenkins global variables and pipeline parameters for automated CI/CD deployment.
This comprehensive guide introduces Ansible's core concepts, architecture, and key features, then walks through installation, inventory configuration, command usage, module options, playbook creation, handlers, and role-based organization, providing practical examples and code snippets for effective automation across Linux and mixed environments.
This article discusses common challenges encountered when using SonarQube at scale—including data instability across branches, rule configuration for new projects, and project permission management—and presents practical solutions such as branch-specific project naming, Jenkins-driven API automation, and recommendations for purchasing commercial editions.
This article explores the evolving role of IT operations, defining its core value, comparing traditional closed‑source and open‑source architectures, analyzing the shift toward automation, DevOps, cloud‑native and digitalization trends, and outlining essential skills and management practices for today’s ops professionals.
This article introduces the powerful nGrinder load‑testing tool, explains its architecture and advantages over JMeter, walks through controller and agent deployment, script creation, data preparation, TPS control, parameterization, test execution, result analysis, and advanced features for building a stable, scalable distributed performance‑testing environment.
This guide explains how to streamline the deployment of multiple microservice modules by creating a Jenkins project that integrates with GitLab, lets users select services, and uses the pipeline parallel syntax to run tasks and stages concurrently, reducing manual effort and speeding up releases.
The article outlines the essential technical and non‑technical competencies—communication, problem‑solving, data analysis, adaptability, prioritization, time management, programming basics, negotiation, mentorship, and strategic intervention—that enable a test manager to lead agile QA teams successfully.
This article details how to replace VM‑based Jenkins slaves with dynamically provisioned Kubernetes pods, covering architecture design, Jenkins master configuration, pod template YAML, custom Docker images, pipeline scripts, and performance tuning to improve resource utilization and scaling.
This article explains how JD Retail built a high‑performance, secure, and observable API gateway that supports massive traffic, implements asynchronous processing for high concurrency, provides fine‑grained traffic control, gray‑release capabilities, and automated operations to serve native, web, and mini‑program clients.
This article explains why and how to replace Jenkins Freestyle projects with Pipeline jobs, covering the limitations of Freestyle, the benefits of Pipeline, and providing a complete scripted example that automates code checkout, building, testing, reporting, and email notification.
This article details a hands‑on workshop that automates the provisioning of a Kubernetes‑based .NET Core microservice environment and CI/CD pipeline using infrastructure‑as‑code scripts, covering tool selection, script workflows, deployment steps, and initialization techniques for reproducible cloud‑native development.
This tutorial introduces GitLab CI/CD, explains its core concepts, reasons to choose it, outlines typical pipeline stages and jobs, and provides a complete example .gitlab-ci.yml configuration with code snippets for building, testing, and deploying a Node.js application.
This guide introduces the Python Paramiko library for SSH and SFTP, showing how to install it, create SSHClient and SFTPClient objects, execute remote commands, transfer files, and properly manage connections on Linux servers.
This tutorial walks you through creating a Python-powered QQ Music scraper that retrieves song details, lyrics, and comments, generates a word‑cloud visualization, and packages the functionality into a menu‑driven command‑line tool, complete with code snippets and troubleshooting tips.
The article describes a system that automates Android permission dialog handling by employing template matching and SIFT‑based image recognition, discusses their limitations, outlines the end‑to‑end workflow, and proposes future enhancements using OCR and BERT for intelligent button selection.
This guide explains how to install, configure, and use the open‑source os_monitor tool to collect CPU, memory, and disk metrics, store them in MySQL, and trigger email or WeChat alerts through a web dashboard with simple SQL‑based setup.
The article explains how traditional IT silos hinder rapid incident response, outlines common symptoms of poorly managed applications, and argues that adopting DevOps—supported by cloud‑native infrastructure, automation, and shared responsibility—delivers higher transparency, employee autonomy, operational quality, and customer satisfaction.
The article explains how designing autonomous, end‑to‑end responsible teams—by minimizing inter‑team collaboration, adopting full‑process or cross‑functional squads, and leveraging automation tools—leads to better software architecture, aligns with Conway’s law, and improves efficiency in modern DevOps environments.
This article explains the importance of UI testing, distinguishes it from GUI testing, compares manual and automated approaches—including Selenium benefits—and outlines key techniques such as exploratory, scripted, and user‑experience testing, while highlighting cross‑browser and performance considerations.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of Jenkins' architecture, detailing the master and slave nodes, web interface, jobs, plugins, security, credentials, cloud agents, global settings, logging, configuration storage, connection methods, and best practices for backup and deployment.
This article explains the challenges of validating test cases in production environments, especially for cross‑browser scenarios, and outlines practical strategies—including Selenium Grid automation, blue‑green, canary, and A/B testing—to ensure reliable, efficient production testing.
Learn how to set up Zabbix HTTP agent monitoring for weather data, create dependent items with JSON preprocessing, automate batch addition for multiple cities using Python, and visualize alerts on a dynamic map with custom triggers and graphics.
This article describes the background, challenges, and solution of building a UI‑driven, cross‑business test data construction platform that integrates HTTP, RPC, SQL, and Redis calls, provides a block‑based front‑end builder, and adds workflow visualization to reduce communication overhead.
The article examines the critical challenges of operational security in internet companies, proposes a “nuclear button” permission‑minimization framework, and outlines practical automation solutions such as bastion hosts, Ansible task control, and backup management to balance safety, cost, and efficiency.
The article reviews the State of DevOps Report series (2014‑2019), highlighting rising industry performance, the critical role of fast and secure software delivery, community building, cloud adoption, work‑life balance, and the shift toward automation and personal effectiveness as key drivers of high‑performing DevOps organizations.
This tutorial explains how to install Supervisor on CentOS and Ubuntu, configure its main and program-specific files, and use it to monitor a continuously running Python script, automatically restarting the script if it crashes or is killed.
This article explains the concept of frontend safety production, outlines its evolution from basic monitoring to a systematic, cloud‑enabled framework, and details the core capabilities—pre‑change CI checks, gray‑release gating, and real‑time monitoring—required to ensure high‑quality, risk‑free frontend deployments.
This article provides a thorough overview of planning, provisioning, and managing online production environments—including user sizing, bandwidth estimation, database design, OS versus container deployment, middleware selection, security, monitoring, SSH shortcuts, file transfer tools, automation scripts, Docker setup, and log viewing techniques—aimed at giving developers a complete operational perspective.
This page aggregates a wide range of technical articles, videos, case studies, tools, and tutorials covering API testing, unit and white‑box testing, performance testing, Java, Groovy, Python, UI automation, and various testing utilities, providing a valuable resource hub for software testing professionals.
This article explains why nohup cannot monitor scripts, introduces Supervisor as a Python‑based process monitor, shows how to install it on CentOS, Ubuntu, and via pip, details the supervisord.conf and program .ini configurations, demonstrates a sample Python script, and outlines common commands for managing and restarting services.
This guide walks you through three common problems encountered when using Python's docx‑mailmerge library to batch‑create work‑return certificates, offering step‑by‑step solutions such as installing the correct package, resolving name conflicts, and correctly placing template files.
Learn how to efficiently update root passwords across dozens or hundreds of Linux servers by creating Expect scripts that automate SSH logins, parse IP and password lists, and execute batch password changes, complete with step-by-step instructions, required environment setup, and script explanations.
This article presents a comprehensive overview of the 14 most popular CI/CD tools, describing their main functionalities, licensing models, and official websites to help teams choose the most suitable solution for fast and reliable software delivery.
This article explains how to build an Android Accessibility service to perform black‑box automation testing, compares its advantages and limitations with UiAutomator1.0/2.0, and provides detailed configuration steps and code examples for service setup, event handling, gesture dispatch, and practical testing scenarios.
GitHub CLI (gh) is a cross‑platform command‑line tool that lets developers clone repositories, filter issues, manage pull requests, create branches, and monitor PR status directly from the terminal, streamlining open‑source contributions on macOS, Windows, and Linux.
This article describes how Alibaba Cloud’s front‑end and marketing platform team tackled frequent urgent requests and front‑end bottlenecks by adopting component‑based development and intelligent Design‑to‑Code tools like imgcook, resulting in significant automation, reduced manual effort, and a scalable low‑code workflow.
This page provides a comprehensive directory of over 320 original articles, videos, and code examples covering API testing, unit testing, performance testing, Java, Groovy, Python, and various testing tools, curated by the FunTester community.
This article explains the core concepts of continuous integration, delivery, deployment, and testing, outlines common challenges such as limited environments and ownership issues, and highlights why CI/CD is vital for improving developer productivity, code quality, and faster software releases.
This article explains the fundamental principles, practical steps, and toolchain choices for designing a reliable CI/CD pipeline that accelerates software delivery while maintaining quality, covering integration, automation, DevOps culture, containerization, continuous testing, and controlled deployment.
The article explains Android's Monkey tool—a command‑line utility for emulator or device testing—detailing its basic syntax, the five categories of options, specific parameters for configuration, event types, constraints, debugging, hidden settings, and how to capture logs.
This guide demonstrates how to add a JSR223 PostProcessor with Groovy in Apache JMeter to capture slow requests, write request parameters and responses to a log file, and control pagination for automated performance testing, providing complete script examples and console output.
The COVID‑19 pandemic dramatically reshaped China's logistics sector, spurring rapid growth in online orders, exposing labor shortages, and prompting widespread adoption of unmanned technologies such as autonomous warehouses, heavy‑duty trucks, drones, delivery robots, and smart lockers to improve efficiency and safety.
The article describes IMVU’s lean‑startup‑inspired continuous deployment system, detailing how they achieve 50 daily releases through automated testing, Buildbot CI, a cluster‑immunity rollback script, rapid user feedback, and extensive QA practices that balance speed with quality.
This guide explains why monitoring is essential, describes the concept of availability "X nines," walks through Zabbix installation, web interface setup, host and template configuration, custom monitoring, alerting with OneAlert, visualization, distributed monitoring, SNMP integration, and provides practical command examples for managing large server fleets.
