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A programming paradigm in which the program statements describe the data to be matched and the processing required rather than defining a sequence of steps to be taken.

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What is data-driven programming?

I've been tasked at work to write a detailed engineering plan for a logistics application that we are coding to propose to a customer. I have been told that it is a data-driven application. What does it mean for an application to be "data-driven"?…
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Thoughts on minimize code and maximize data philosophy

I have heard of the concept of minimizing code and maximizing data, and was wondering what advice other people can give me on how/why I should do this when building my own systems?
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How to check file exists in Groovy script

Workbook aWorkBook = Workbook.getWorkbook(new File("C:\\Users\\Response.xls")); WritableWorkbook workbook1 = Workbook.createWorkbook(new File("C:\\Users\\Responses.xls"), aWorkBook); I am doing DATA DRIVEN TESTING using Groovy script in SOAP…
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Data Driven vs Event Driven model/architecture?

I heard the terms Data Driven and Event Driven model from different folks in past. I did google but these terms are still vague to me as both of them looks similar to me Data driven programming is a programming model where the data itself controls…
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Expensive maintenance with automated test data

At my company, we have a growing set of integration test using JUnit in a Java Web application. Each test uses some specific external XMLs files to populate the database with the needed data to the test. The problem is: When there is a change in…
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Is data-driven testing bad?

I've started using googletest to implement tests and stumbled across this quote in the documentation regarding value-parameterized tests You want to test your code over various inputs (a.k.a. data-driven testing). This feature is easy to abuse,…
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Game engine and data driven design

I've heard about data driven design and have been researching about it for a while. So, I've read several articles to get the concepts. One of the article is Data Driven Design written by Kyle Wilson. As he described, it seems to me that the…
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A python web application framework for tight DB/GUI coupling?

I'm a firm believer of the heretic thought of tight coupling between the backend and frontend: I want existing, implied knowledge about a backend to be automatically made use of when generating user interfaces. E.g., if a VARCHAR column has a…
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how to bring the selected node front in d3 js?

I am using the d3 v3 script to visualize the Data. I need to highlight and bring the node front in mousecenter and vice versa in mouseleave. Now I can able to high light the node by increasing height and width of the node. Can't able to bring the…
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Which scripting language to support in an existing codebase?

I'm looking at adding scripting functionality to an existing codebase and am weighing up the pros/cons of various packages. Lua is probably the most obvious choice, but I was wondering if people have any other suggestions based on their…
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Mstest name instead Data Row with Data-Driven testing

I use MsTests and Data Driven approach for testing. (Excel is data storage for tests) tests result dont provide any information about tests data. For example: Result look as: testname (Data row 5). And it is not clear for me. How can i customise…
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Pros and cons of making database IDs consistent and "readable"

Question Is it a good rule of thumb for database IDs to be "meaningless?" Conversely, are there significant benefits from having IDs structured in a way where they can be recognized at a glance? What are the pros and cons? Background I just had a…
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CRUD-style data driven distributed .NET application architecture questions

Context: Building a smart client application on the .NET platform where you have a complex database model with a high number of columns involved. The natural application style is a typical data driven CRUD. There’s also a fair bit of server side…
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Write efficient entity system like in C++

I'm trying to make an efficient "entity system" in C++, I've read a lot of blog/articles/documentation on the Internet to get lot of information but I've got some questions again. I've find two interesting subjects: Data-driven system Entity…
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Build Mocha test dynamically after getting data from webdriver.io

I'm looking for a solution to define Mocha tests after getting data asynchronously. For now, I use gulp-webdriver to getting HTML content with Selenium. And I want tests certain HTML tags structure. For example, I want to get all buttons…
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