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For any Magento store owner, it has become very competitive to survive in the retail ecosystem. So it is very much important to do continuous monitoring of your market and make changes in your Magento website. These changes allow companies to quickly respond to the changing retail ecosystem. But while making any changes to your eCommerce store, it becomes important to ensure smooth user experience. To achieve this, a thorough Magento testing needs to be followed involving user behavior simulation for proper performance evaluation. If the changes are very frequent, then the old manual testing techniques become redundant. To overcome this scenario, Magento has introduced Magento Functional Testing Framework (MFTF). Magento Functional Testing Framework (MFTF) was introduced by Tom Erskine at Mage Test Fest. MFTF has already seen 2 major releases and the latest version available till today is 2.3.12. Before, getting to know about the MFTF (Magento functional Testing framework), we...

In this blog, I will try to cover every aspect of headless CMS so that you have complete information required to choose the perfect CMS system for your application. So without further ado, let’s get started – What is headless CMS? A headless CMS is nothing different from a traditional headless CMS. The only difference between the two is that the headless CMS lacks the display layer or the front-end user experience. This gives the developers the flexibility to deliver content beyond websites and mobile applications such as smartwatches, IoT devices, and even for Virtual Reality (VR) headsets. How is headless CMS different from traditional CMS systems? The above figure clearly demonstrates the difference between headless CMS and traditional (decoupled) CMS systems. Headless CMS offers the advantage of refreshing the design without changing the whole CMS system. Only one instance of headless CMS is required for display on any device either it is the website, mobile, ...

Without a doubt, the Internet has completely revolutionized our world, and every business (either big or small) is shifting its business online. The number of web applications is increasing, and so are the security threats. Many people don’t focus on the security of their online business, and such type of web apps allows hackers to compromise user’s data. So it becomes vital for everyone to understand the importance of online security. There are different types of attacks the hackers can perform to compromise the security of your application and your user’s personal information. Some of the frequent attacks are – Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) SQL Injection DDoS Attack Malware Bots Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Broken Authentication Exploiting Inclusion Vulnerabilities – LFI and RFI To give you the idea of the increasing threat, here are the industries most frequently targeted by DDoS worldwide – Now, there is no chance that a web app can be 100% secure a...

It is no news that most people are crazy about fitness in today’s world. Everyone is concerned about their health and fitness because of widespread consciousness that is raised about fitness. People are ready to do anything to stay healthy and fit and they are sparing no expenses. A helpful addition to the fitness world is fitness apps that when installed help the users further their fitness quotient. There are a lot of fitness apps available in the market both on Google Play Store and Apple App Store . It totally depends upon your fitness goals that which app you want to choose. Fitness apps can be of various types, they can either be simple and measure things like the number of kilometers you’ve run to more complex functions such as calories consumed in a single day, etc. These apps keep a track of food eaten, suggest diet charts and even exercise routines. Fitness App Development Everyone is busy nowadays and these apps help you to stay fit. So, if you are an enterpr...

Magento is one of the most popular e‐commerce carts, which presently enjoys a market share of around 30 percent. In fact, it has recorded a 60 % higher growth in the year 2014 as compared to the year 2013. Besides, it is a highly scalable, secure, and robust system known for its flexibility, functionality, and community support. And it is the biggest open-source platform that has certified over 2,800 developers for Magento e-commerce Design and Development across the world. This makes Magento appropriate for all business regardless of their sizes. Why Magento is best for a rapidly growing online business? Every business has unique needs. So in order to create the perfect online business store, you need an e-commerce platform that offers easy customization. This helps in maximizing sales and optimizing operations. Magento is the most appropriate system in this case. The inbuilt extensions and plugins allow Magento designers to customize the store to be in line with your ...

On November 28, 2018, Magento introduced the most awaited release of Magento 2.3. Magento 2.3 has introduced a ton of new features along with a lot of smaller optimizations. But the most awaited feature is Magento PWA Studio. It is a suite of tools that empower developers to develop progressive web applications. Magento PWA Studio also uses GraphQL which is one of the new feature introduced in Magento 2.3 What are Progressive Web Applications (PWA)? Progressive Web Applications (PWA) are the future of web app development . PWA with Android Instant Apps is the next advancement in web industry after responsive web design. Progressive Web Apps uses progressive enhancements that offers features similar to a native mobile application. Progressive Web Apps and Android Instant Apps combined together lets you create beautiful apps with material design and animations without the need of installing them on any device. Have you ever encountered a popup while browsing a website on mobi...

With the increase in the demand for mobile applications, a large number of enterprises are shifting their focus towards mobile app development . Introduction of new technologies, platforms, and frameworks is allowing mobile app developers to create revolutionary mobile apps. Cross-Platform App Development has gained a lot of popularity in recent times as it enables developers to develop apps for multiple platforms like Android,  iOS, Windows with a single code base. React Native is one of the most famous Cross Platform for mobile app development introduced by Facebook and it has one of the largest active developers community. React is a JavaScript library which is efficient, flexible and declarative for developing user interfaces. It lets the developer compose complicated UIs of small and isolated pieces of code referred to as “components”. React features   Components −  It’ll assist you to maintain your code while working on large-scale projects. React...

Introduction There are a lot of server-side technologies available in the market and it has become tough for the developer to decide what kind of backend is the most suitable for their app. Today, we are going to explore Firebase by Google along with all the tools and services that it provides. What is Firebase? Back in 2011, Firebase was started as a startup called Envolve and later in 2014, it got acquired by Google to become a multifunctional web and mobile app platform . Firebase is a Backend-as-a-Service — BaaS. Firebase gives the developers the freedom of time to focus more on creating enhanced user experiences as the developer doesn’t need to manage servers, don’t need to write APIs. Firebase is built on Google Infrastructure and offers functionality like analytics, databases, crash reporting, and messaging. Firebase key integrations offer – Google AdWords AdMob DoubleClick Play Store Data Studio BigQuery Slack Firebase Services The services offe...

It has become a tradition for Google to release the source code of I/O event Android app after several weeks of the event. This annual release is done to demonstrate best practices for app development. Developers can take a look at the code to get a better understanding of Google’s best practices for Android App Development . App architecture Google’s I/O 2018 app represents a complete rewrite of the application. The app has moved from ContentProvider+SyncAdapter architecture to Architecture Components. It’s Google’s Android Team current recommendation for developing modern apps for Android. Google has used Kotlin for the rewrite of the application. Here is the general overview of the app’s architecture – Repository layer is used for handling data operations. Data comes from different data sources – User Data is stored in Cloud Firestore (either remotely or in the local cache) User settings and preferences are stored in SharedPreferences Conference Data is stored r...

With the increase in the demand for mobile applications, a large number of enterprises are shifting their focus towards mobile app development . The introduction of new technologies, platforms, and frameworks is allowing mobile app developers to create revolutionary mobile apps. Cross-Platform App Development has gained a lot of popularity in recent times as it enables developers to develop apps for multiple platforms like Android,  iOS, Windows with a single code base. React Native is one of the most famous Cross-Platform for mobile app development introduced by Facebook and it has one of the largest active developers community. However, Google introduced its own Software Development Kit (SDK) Flutter at Google I/O Developer Conference 2017. So today we will be focusing on the comparison of the two frameworks – What is Flutter ? Flutter is crafted for high-quality interfaces for iOS and Android in record time which is Google’s mobile app SDK. Flutter is a free an...

The strong growth of the smartphone market in recent years has led to the share of mobile phone website traffic to 52.2% in the year 2018. The availability of cost-effective smartphones has led to an increase in our dependency on smartphones thus making it difficult for the developers to choose between Native Mobile App Development and Hybrid App Development. Importance of UI/UX in mobile app development Before we look into the Native & Hybrid App development platforms, there is one most important aspect of mobile app development services that need to be considered i.e., your customer. Your customer is least concerned about the technology or the platform that power the app they are using. Most users are concerned about what they can do with the app rather than what goes into making them. So User Experience and User Interface is the most important aspect of any mobile app. 79% of consumers try any app either once or twice if it failed to work in the first attempt while...

Over the past 5 years, mobile devices have become the primary source of accessing the internet for millions of people around the globe. These trends have scrambled many industries to adapt towards the shift in business application users by developing a mobile app for their business application. During the early years of this shift, IT industry focused on meeting the market demand and businesses focused on creating a market presence and they overlooked to focus on app development costs, security, maintainability, code quality, etc. Presently as the underlying surge has settled down, it’s a great opportunity to focus around these issues and embrace new methodologies to lessen cost and increase quality. In this blog, we will be discussing the DevOps approach in Mobile App Developmen t , the major challenges faced, and best practices to overcome those challenges. What is DevOps? DevOps is a modern software engineering approach that focuses on effective collaboration between ...

VT Netzwelt is one of the leading digital technology Company offering e-commerce development services . Magento is one of the most popular e‐commerce carts, which presently enjoys a market share of around 30 percent. In fact, it has recorded a 60 % higher growth in the year 2014 as compared to the year 2013. Magento 2.0 was released on November 2015, after four years of development, aiming to replace the 1.x version of the eCommerce platform. A new version of the platform was released simultaneously for the Enterprise and the Community Edition, thus introducing new features and functionality within the paid and the free eCommerce solution provided by Magento. VT Netzwelt offering the best Magento development services and in order to create the perfect online business store, you need an e-commerce platform that offers easy customization. This helps in maximizing sales and optimizing operations Since Magento Community Edition (Magento CE) is free to download, it is up to you to deci...