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Steven Si

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Quick Steps to Start Testing Salesforce SOAP API

To start testing Salesforce SOAP API with SoapUI, follow the quick steps below: Register a Salesforce developer account. Make sure to register a developer edition account from https://developer.salesforce.com/signup   Do not register from www.salesforce.com, as you won’t be able to ‘generate wsdls’ which will be needed in the next step. Reset Salesforce Security Token Login to the developer […]

Introduce Story Type into your User Story Estimation

Story Point estimation is a critical technique for project planning and team velocity tracking in an agile project. Usually, to estimate the size of a user story , we tend to compare it with the standard user story which already has a fixed number of story points. We get the feeling how big the user […]

Hangzhou – the best business and tourism city in China

Perficient’s China Global Delivery Center was established in 2004 and is located in Hangzhou, China. As an employee of this company for more than three years and a citizen in Hangzhou, I am more than proud to introduce this wonderful city to you – the best business and tourism city in China.

Single source test data

Most people might not think test data preparation is important in software engineering. However it becomes an improvement area as more and more companies start to apply TDD (test driven development) now. Managing test data differently may impact your project more than you think. First, let’s look at a question many developers might have:  How […]

Manage an integration project in control (Part 2 – Suggestions / Discussion)

In the previous post, we talked about some major challenges we experienced in an integration project. In this post, I will share some suggestions on how to solve these problems. I also bring the discussion about using “Agile” or “Check Point Control” in integration project plan. Based on the previous post, it becomes natural that […]

Manage an integration project in control (Part 1 – Problems)

It is exciting to see so many integration projects pop up in our offshore global delivery center (China GDC).  As we know, most integration projects are very often challenging. Since I have worked as the offshore team lead in a mulit-shore integration project, I would like to share what I learned with you. First, I’d […]