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A Week in The Life: Melanie Hanson, Associate Software Tester
A Week in The Life: Melanie Hanson, Associate Software Tester
Audacia - 08/04/2022
Melanie Hanson is an associate software tester at Audacia. Following a conversation about Mel's career journey, we give an insight into what a software tester's role entails on a weekly basis.
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Code review in software development projects: Our guidelines
Code review in software development projects: Our guidelines
Richard Brown - 07/04/2022
At Audacia, all code is reviewed by at least one other person before it goes through any other form of testing. It is the first quality gate at which potential issues can be raised and addressed. Here we discuss some of the best practices for code reviews.
Team Stories: Melanie Hanson, Test Engineer
Team Stories: Melanie Hanson, Test Engineer
Audacia - 01/04/2022
In our latest Team Story, Melanie Hanson gives an insight to her role as a test engineer and the projects she has worked on since beginning her career at Audacia.
Natural Language Processing with Microsoft LUIS - How to consume your published model (part 2 of 2)
Natural Language Processing with Microsoft LUIS - How to consume your published model (part 2 of 2)
Philip Rashleigh - 16/03/2022
In part 1, Audacia's technical director Philip Rashleigh built, tested and published a model within Microsoft LUIS. Here he shows you how to consume this new RESTful API, as well as building a simple web application which can consume it.
Natural Language Processing with Microsoft LUIS - How to build, train and publish your model (part 1 of 2)
Natural Language Processing with Microsoft LUIS - How to build, train and publish your model (part 1 of 2)
Philip Rashleigh - 11/03/2022
In part one of this two-part series, Audacia’s Technical Director, Philip Rashleigh, gives an overview of how Microsoft LUIS can be used to create a natural language processing model.
Team Stories: Esme Lawrence, Software Engineer
Team Stories: Esme Lawrence, Software Engineer
Audacia - 07/03/2022
Esme Lawrence, Software Engineer at Audacia, discusses her role, the types of projects she works on and what is her favourite part of working at Audacia.
Generating PDFs in software development: Using Puppeteer and Node.js
Generating PDFs in software development: Using Puppeteer and Node.js
Danny Humphrey - 24/02/2022
A recent project had a requirement to add in the option to generate PDFs to an already extensive reporting tool built using React. Here we discuss how we used Puppeteer and Node.js to generate the PDFs.
How to supercharge apps to scale with microservices
How to supercharge apps to scale with microservices
Ed Brown - 21/02/2022
Principal consultant Ed Brown looks at how apps can be scaled using microservices.
Team Stories: Ed Brown, Principal Software Consultant
Team Stories: Ed Brown, Principal Software Consultant
Audacia - 28/01/2022
We spoke with Principal Software Consultant Ed Brown about working with microservices, career progression and what makes Audacia’s company culture so special.
Software development frameworks: A detailed review of Blazor
Software development frameworks: A detailed review of Blazor
Joshua Downe - 27/01/2022
A detailed review of Blazor, a new framework for creating web applications from Microsoft.