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Introduction A List is an interface in the Java collection framework. It can be used to store objects. Programmers often encounter scenarios where they need to sort a List. There are several ways you can achieve this. In the next few sections, I will be going over each method in...

The 'Git for Windows' by default does not come with MSYS2 package manager called 'Pacman' and hence it is a limited version or subset of the MSYS2. Also the bash which supplied wih Git for Windows is not a full version of bash hence does not provide for full...

Introduction There are often scenarios in programming, where you will need to convert a date in String format to an actual Date object. For example, such a scenario may occur when the date is read from an end user via a UI and sent to the back-end code. In this...

Introduction In Java, a String is a sequence of characters. There are often programming situations where you will need to concatenate Strings. There are several ways in which you can achieve this. In the next few sections, I will be going over each method in detail. Using + Operator The + operator...

In this tutorial, we will discuss how to use mouse click events and keyboard events with Selenium WebDriver. The mouse click and keyboard events are used to automate the interactions of a user with a mouse and keyboard. Action & Actions We encourage the use of Action and Actions together with...

1. What is TestNG? TestNG is an open-source automated testing framework with flexible and powerful features. It is inspired by JUnit and NUnit but with some additional advantages and functionalities. TestNG gives the developers to build tests with easy annotations, sequencing, grouping, and parameterizing. The ability to generate test reports to...

Honestly speaking if you already have a mature or established process using 'native' JMeter from Apache, without any kind of wrappers utilities or third-party tools then this article is of little value to you. However, there are many companies and/or projects out there who may employ some wrappers or third-party...

Introduction A List is an interface in the Java collection framework which can be used to store a group of objects. A List is ordered and it allows duplicates. However, there are often scenarios where you would need to eliminate duplicate elements from a List. There are several ways you can...

A common scenario faced by programmers is to convert a Java List to an Array. A 'List' is part of the Collection Framework and is useful when the number of elements are unknown. An 'Array', on the other hand, is useful for fixed-size elements. However, in real-world programming, there are...

For cases when you need to execute a VBS script (*.vbs file) as admin with elevated privileges you can try the following snippet. This can be done by running ShellExecute and setting the runas flag to run an executable or to run an entire script (batch file or VBScript)...

This is in continuation to the last post where we saw how to read windows environment variables using VBScript. As mentioned in the last post, we can use the following preferred methods to achieve this : Using the WSH Shell object Using WMI's Win32_Environment class In the below example...