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Why XForms might be a Winner - Rethinking Web Forms with XForms, Part 1
mgm develops several large scale web applications containing hundreds of forms, e.g. the e-government portal ElsterOnline Portal. Design, implementation, test, and maintenance of these forms implies...
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Test-driving XForms with Orbeon - Rethinking Web Forms with XForms, Part 2
In this second installment, we conclude our evaluation of XForms implementations and explain why we ultimately preferred the Orbeon engine. I walk you through a XForms sample to explain essential...
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Form Validation with Rule Bases - Test Data Generation for Form-Centric...
A lot of our web applications contain a large number of forms with hundreds of fields and complex cross-field constraints. mgm’s quality assurance team uses rule bases and automatic form validation to...
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Producing High-Quality Test Data - Test Data Generation for Form-Centric...
This part addresses the question what makes test data valuable for functional tests. You will understand the important concept of extreme and special values, and how to obtain test data that is highly...
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Portlets with XForms in Liferay - Rethinking Web Forms with XForms, Part 3
This posting discusses how we integrated an web application with XForms as one of the main view technologies into a Liferay portal. We were using the Orbeon 3.8 XForms engine, which was introduced in...
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How Google’s Geocoding solves Address Validation
For the e-commerce business, it is very important to have a valid and correct address base. Sending packages to incorrect addresses causes significant losses, since packages are not delivered and sent...
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Effective and Efficient Techniques for a Rule-Based Test-Data Generator -...
This part explains some of the sophisticated software technology that is working behind the scenes in our rule-based test-data generator for form-centric applications. You will see that a simple...
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Using Domain Specific Languages to Implement Interactive Frontends - Software...
For many years we have dealt with the challenges that frontends with interactive forms pose w.r.t. validation, test data and quality. Describing the requirements in formal Domain Specific Languages...
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On the Quality Benefits of Formal Domain Specific Languages - Software...
One of the assets of mgm is dedicated quality for software, including especially portal technology for applications with high-safety and reliance demands. In the first blog within this series, “Using...
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