Scott Tilley

Celebrate the spirit of Advent with Advent Poetry, a heartfelt collection of daily poems designed to guide you through the season's themes: Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love. Each day features an introductory stanza that sets the tone, followed by reflective poems for morning, afternoon, and evening, crafted to inspire moments of pause and quiet contemplation. Complemented by timeless quotes, meaningful scriptures, and a space for personal reflection, Advent Poetry invites readers to embrace the season's beauty with fresh perspective and renewed faith. Perfect for personal devotion or sharing with loved ones, this poetic journey captures the wonder and anticipation of Advent, leading to the light and joy of Christmas Day. Experience the warmth of words and the glow of connection this Advent season.

The beginning of 2020 saw the emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus and the rise of COVID-19. This worldwide pandemic has changed our lives dramatically. We've been forced into quarantine, witnessed the spread of the disease around the globe, and experienced an economic downturn the likes of which we haven't seen since the Great Depression in the 1930s. We're still trying to adjust to the new normal - whatever that means. Even our vocabulary has changed. We're pinning our hopes on the development of a vaccine, but what if this is more like the medieval Black Death, the great pestilence that kept coming back? PANDEMIC is a collection of stories about people's experiences with COVID-19. Lives lost. Healthcare heroes on the front line. Careers cratered. Face masks. Social distancing. The role of the WHO and the CDC in government health policy. Lockdowns. Takeout food. Selfie haircuts. Closed borders. Long-term care facilities. School openings. Data science. The future of sports and entertainment. The importance of friends and family.

Discover a practical, streamlined approach to information systems development that focuses on the latest developments with Tilley's SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN, 12E and MindTap digital resources. Real examples clearly demonstrate both traditional and emerging approaches to systems analysis and design, including object-oriented and agile methods. You also study cloud computing and mobile applications as this edition presents an easy-to-follow approach to systems analysis and design. Meaningful projects, insightful assignments and both online and printed exercises emphasize the critical thinking and IT skills that are most important in today's dynamic, business-related environment. New MindTap ConceptClip videos and a new online continuing case further demonstrate concepts for success in today's competitive and rapidly changing business world.

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.

Discover a practical, streamlined, updated approach to information systems development that covers both traditional and emerging technologies and approaches to systems analysis and design. SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN, 11E offers a well-organized, streamlined approach. Chapter objectives are keyed directly to chapter headings, making content easy to comprehend and convenient to study. Numerous real-world examples and screenshots ensure content is current and relevant. In addition, key terms at the end of the chapter now include definitions so you don’t have to flip back and forth to a glossary. Exercises throughout this edition emphasize critical thinking and IT skills in a dynamic, business-related environment. This new edition offers everything you need to prepare for success in today's intensely competitive and rapidly changing business world.

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