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Maven Build Life Cycles, Phases and Goals
Maven’s Sequential Execution In Maven, you have the option of executing a build phase or build goal. But unlike build goals, which can be called and executed individually, Maven follows a sequential or hierarchical order of execution for build phases. For example, if you run a phase that is at level 5 in the life cycle hierarchy, all preceding phases...
Maven CLI Options and Switches Reference
Maven offers a good set of commands and CLI Options to carry out wide range of Dev tasks. Most of these commands are in fact Maven build life cycles, phases and goals. Here is a list of common Maven commands along with explanation. But before we go through the Maven commands, it is good idea to understand the structure or...
How To Set XAMPP To Run As-Admin By Default
Why run XAMPP as-admin The XAMPP is recommended to be executed as-admin as it requires running a couple of system services such as Apache, MySQL etc. Also if you have not installed Apache or MySQL as system services, the XAMPP services may still require to access and operate custom system ports especially port 1024 and above which may again require...
How To Create Dashboards with Jira
What is a Jira Dashboard? The Jira dashboard is like a control panel for your projects. You can create several dashboards for each project you work on, or you can view your system in different ways. Furthermore, Jira has some advanced apps and gadgets that allow you to keep track of your projects and related issues. The development teams can...
How To Install XAMPP on Windows
What is XAMPP The full form of XAMPP stands for Cross-platform, Apache, MariaDB (MySQL), PHP and Perl. It is one of the simplest and lightweight local servers or more precisely a package of bundled open-source software containing standard web development tools to develop/test your website locally. It is available as open-source software created by Apache Friends and is very common among...
How To Create Maven Project in Eclipse With Archetype
Maven Basics Maven automates the steps involved in building a software application like adding the JAR files, compiling code, running unit tests, creating the output jar/war file, etc. This makes the code less error-prone. Maven uses an XML configuration file known as the POM file. Developers need to specify information like the JAR files required by an application, the type...
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Traditional Framework Definitions (QTP)
Over the years Functional Test Automation has come a long way from WinRunner to QTP and until...
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Getting Started With Atlassian Jira
Jira is one of the best software used for agile development. It is built for a better...
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Best Practices For Evaluating Automation Tool
With rapidly changing financial conditions, businesses face the tough challenge of optimizing resources to produce maximum results....
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How To Convert List To Array in Java
A common scenario faced by programmers is to convert a Java List to an Array. A 'List'...
Rounding Decimal Number With Java DecimalFormat
The DecimalFormat class has a method called setRoundingMode() which can be used for setting the rounding mode for DecimalFormat object. The setRoundingMode() accepts RoundingMode class object as the parameter. You can pass any of the Enum constants available in the RoundingMode class as parameter to the setRoundingMode() method to achieve the desired rounding of decimal number. The following example demonstrates...
Format Decimal Numbers with Grouping Separator
The DecimalFormat class has a method called setGroupingSize() which sets how many digits of the integer part to group. Groups are separated by the grouping separator. Hence you can use setGroupingSize() method to change the default group digits number as you need. The following example demonstrates setting grouping separator for integer part of the decimal number: 219bd6a59d7bd881631c58a62a5ed178 The above code produces the...
Java DecimalFormat Class
When you need to format decimal numbers, such as taking three or two decimal places for a number, showing only the integer part of a number, etc. such scenarios can be tackled with java.text.DecimalFormatclass, which can help you to format numbers using your specified pattern. The java.text.DecimalFormat class is used to format numbers using a user specified formatting. This concrete...
Format Decimal Numbers using Strings Within Pattern
As mentioned in earlier posts, the java.text.DecimalFormat class is used to format decimal numbers via predefined patterns specified as String. Apart from the decimal separator, grouping separator, currency separator etc., It is also possible to mix String literals within the pattern. The following example demonstrates embedding String literals within pattern: b8c17d2e8b2af4b43df92c35de7031e8 The above code produces the following output: My formatted number is 170,180.246
Format Decimal Numbers Using Format Symbols
You can customize which symbols are used as decimal separator, grouping separator, currency seperator etc. using a DecimalFormatSymbols instance together with java.text.DecimalFormat class. The DecimalFormatSymbols instance can be passed to java.text.DecimalFormat constructor followed by the call to format() method of java.text.DecimalFormat to achieve the desired decimal separator, grouping separator character etc. The following example demonstrates formatting using DecimalFormatSymbols: 6a0a52cac039f0020809ed8feb43ddb9 The...
Format Decimal Numbers Using Locale
If you want to create a DecimalFormat instance for a specific Locale, create a NumberFormat and cast it to a DecimalFormat. The java.text.DecimalFormat class is used to format numbers using a user specified formatting. This concrete subclass of NumberFormat, allows formatting decimal numbers via predefined patterns specified as String . It has a variety of features designed to make it...
Desired Capabilities in Selenium Web Driver
1. Desired Capabilities in Selenium The performance of a Web application may vary according to different browsers and operating systems. Hence to ship out a near-consistent functional and performant application, it calls for testing your applications against different browsers or browser configurations. That is where Selenium's 'Desired Capabilities' class comes into the picture. 'DesiredCapabilities' is a class in Selenium that can...
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Convert List to Array Using For-Loop
The simplest way to convert a List to an array is to use a for-loop. The following code...
Java Gists
Concatenate Strings Using String.join() for Collections
There is an overloaded version of the String.join method that accepts as parameter an Iterable implementation. Since all...
Java Gists
Convert List to Array Using Stream with Param
There is an overloaded version of the Stream.toArray method which can be used to return a result array...
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