Lambdas and Functional Interfaces By Vlad Ionescu, Java Developer, Cognizant Softvision With the release of Java 8 came lambdas, which give programmers a way to pass in a behavior in functional programming. In parts one and two of this series, we talked about how we can define interfaces as a type for lambda expressions…

More on Lambdas By Vlad Ionescu, Java Developer, Cognizant Softvision In the first article of this series, we scratched the surface on the topic of lambdas as they pertain to Java 8. In this article, we will continue to dive further into lambdas. Lambdas vs. Anonymous Inner Classes

Lambdas fundamentals By Vlad Ionescu, Java Developer, Cognizant Softvision In 1991, James Gosling of Sun Microsystems created Java, a programming language. Java allows one to write a program and run it on multiple operating systems. The first publicly available version of Java (Java 1.0) was released in 1995, but it was years…

By Elena Marin and Roxana Ambrozie, QC Engineers, Cognizant Softvision An API, or Application Programming Interface, is a connection between two or more computers, respectively software applications. These connections have simple, well-defined rules that explain how computers or software applications communicate with each other. …

By Sergiu Buceac, Senior Software Engineer, Cognizant Softvision When researching ways of writing cleaner and more robust code, there is a multitude of materials that debate the existence of this concept in an object-oriented language. …

Part 2: Approaches, Types & Tools By Tudor Blaga, QC Engineer, Cognizant Softvision As more organizations are moving towards a micro-service and service-oriented architecture, the need for effective API testing is becoming more and more critical. Part one of this series covered API basics, REST API, endpoints, web services, and methods. In this second half, we…

Part 1: Basics and Benefits By Tudor Blaga, QC Engineer, Cognizant Softvision Application Programming Interfaces, or APIs, are an important and integral part of modern software development, helping different applications and technologies interact and share data between them. This two-part article will cover API basics, benefits, testing approaches, tools, and best practices. The following, part…

By Carmen Făt, Senior QA Engineer, Cognizant Softvision Many people have the wrong opinion when it comes to the work of a QA. Most believe that a QA engineer runs after bugs all day, every day. But is bug hunting the only thing that a QA has to do? …

By Ionut Chichisan, .Net Enterprise Software Engineer, Cognizant Softvision CLR, the .Net Runtime. Or ‘time to run,’ quickly if possible. In the modern era, people want to have quick and responsive software. They want to spend the least amount of time in front of a computer and do their jobs…