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Implement modern and agile QA practices to ensure your games are high quality, on budget, and released on time Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Key Features Set up a test environment, create test plans, and learn to communicate with developers Discover how to build efficient QA teams either in-house or remotely Increase your chances of career advancement and your employability in the gaming industry Book DescriptionFew things are more annoying for gamers than encountering a buggy new game. This often leads to negative reviews, and in turn, you’ll find that demand for your games declines. The solution lies in better quality assurance (QA) – and Modern Game Testing will show you how to achieve just that. Whether you’re a new tester, developer or producer, the QA testing techniques shown in this book, using modern methodologies and the latest technology, will have you releasing quality games that are on time and, most importantly, on budget. The book begins by introducing you to QA and the various types of tests that are performed on games. You’ll then explore test cases and bug reporting, building tests for different platforms (even consoles and PCs), and LiveOps and test management. As you advance, you’ll build a QA team from scratch and work with remote QA testers. The chapters help you take a more traditional approach to learning lessons, enabling you to examine the modern agile approach and various testing strategies that you can then adopt. All angles are covered with oodles of examples, so you’ll have everything you need to implement QA strategies in your organization. By the end of this book, you’ll have a clear understanding of the modern methodologies of QA testing for games, and be able to build efficient, reliable, and long-lasting QA teams.What you will learn Conduct compliance, regression, and localization tests, among others Build and optimize test sets for testing mobile games Find out how to set up an efficient bug flow Write optimal bug reports that differentiate between priority and severity Pick the optimal testing approach for each phase of game development Discover how to use equivalence partitioning, boundary analysis, and decision tables Master live ops QA and handle live bugs Who this book is forThis book is for game testers, game producers, game developers, testing managers, and other QA professionals who want to learn more about modern approaches to QA and utilizing them to build more efficient and cost-effective QA teams and products. Prior professional testing experience is desirable, either in software or games testing and/or experience working in the gaming industry. Basic familiarity with agile working practices such as scrum is needed to fully understand all the concepts explained in this book.

Build maintainable, extensible, and virtually indestructible cloud applications on AWS with CDK Key Features * Build complex cloud applications with the revolutionary AWS CDK * Gain practical knowledge of AWS CDK to tame and leverage the powerful toolset of AWS * Practical exercises & architectural design patterns for developing modern serverless application Book Description Cloud applications are getting more complex each day and many toolsets and services have spun up to address some of the challenges proposed by running reliable solutions. Infrastructure as Code alongside containers and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes have been able to solve some of these challenges, and AWS CDK is the first solid attempt for a paradigm shift to build applications that are easy to develop, extend, and maintain. This book will start with setting up basic day to day bread-and-butter type infrastructure while helping you to understand the new prospects that CDK offers. You will then move to setting up pipelines for building CDK applications on the cloud that stand the test of time while sustaining the ease of adding new features. You will also get practical knowledge of container based as well as serverless application development. Further on, you will leverage AWS CDK to build cloud solutions using code instead of configuration files. You will wrap up with current community best practices for solving production issues when dealing with CDK applications. By the end of this book, you will have practical knowledge of CDK, and you will be able to easily tame and leverage the power of AWS with simple code using AWS CDK. What you will learn * Turn current containerized web applications to fully managed solutions * Benefits of building DevOps into everyday code with AWS CDK * Practically uncover the potential of AWS services with CDK * Create a serverless focused local development environment * Self-assemble projects with CI/CD and automated live testing * Follow the complete path of development to product with AWS CDK * Become versed in dealing with production issues through best practices Who This Book Is For This book is targeted towards traditional full stack developers who want to make it to the new world of Infrastructure as Code & serverless, solutions architects that want to learn the advantages of defining their services with AWS CDK, and DevOps specialists who are tired of managing endless configuration files. Readers should not be new to coding and must have experience in web development in languages such as Python, JS, Typescript, Java, etc. along with a basic understanding of how web applications are developed.

Effective collaboration technologies and tools are critical to the development of contemporary business landscapes, especially as more businesses offer fully remote or hybrid work options. Effective communication is key to increasing work productivity and absolutely essential for project managers and teams working to achieve their end goals. Individuals and businesses can benefit from research on the design, execution, and assessment of collaboration applications as they strive for effective tools to increase virtual forms of communication. It is essential that businesses remain up to date with and incorporate these emerging virtual technologies and e-collaboration into their practices. Virtual Technologies and E-Collaboration for the Future of Global Business examines the most recent findings in knowledge-intensive, collaborative environments with a focus on methodologies and strategies for increasing online collaboration. It discusses the emerging technologies and tools for collaboration in virtual environments and includes findings in automation, computing, and intelligent information systems, as well as state-of-the-art solutions covering various issues and challenges. Covering topics such as capacity building, groupware systems, and knowledge management, this premier reference source is an essential resource for business leaders and managers, entrepreneurs, board directors, faculty and students of higher education, technology directors and managers, IT professionals, researchers, and academicians.

Go on the complete R journey from tidying your data, whether small, complex, or big, to implementing and evaluating a variety of machine learning models Key Features * The 10th Anniversary Edition of the bestselling R machine learning book, updated with 50% new content for R 4.0.0 and beyond * Harness the power of R to build flexible, effective, and transparent machine learning models * Learn quickly with a clear, hands-on guide by machine learning expert Brett Lantz Book Description Machine learning, at its core, is concerned with transforming data into actionable knowledge. R offers a powerful set of machine learning methods to quickly and easily gain insight from your data. Machine Learning with R, Fourth Edition provides a hands-on, accessible, and readable guide to applying machine learning to real-world problems. Whether you are an experienced R user or new to the language, Brett Lantz teaches you everything you need for data pre-processing, uncovering key insights, making new predictions, and visualizing your findings. This 10th Anniversary Edition features several new chapters that reflect the progress of ML in the last few years and help you build your data science skills and tackle more challenging problems, including making successful ML models and advanced data preparation, building better learners, and making use of big data. You'll also find updates to the classic R data science book to R 4.0.0 with newer and better libraries, advice on ethical and bias issues in machine learning, and an introduction to deep learning. Whether you're looking to take your first steps with R for machine learning or making sure your skills and knowledge are up to date, this is an unmissable read. Find powerful new insights in your data; discover machine learning with R. What you will learn * Learn the end-to-end process of machine learning from raw data to implementation * Classify important outcomes using nearest neighbor and Bayesian methods * Predict future events using decision trees, rules, and support vector machines * Forecast numeric data and estimate financial values using regression methods * Model complex processes with artificial neural networks * Prepare, transform, and clean data using the tidyverse * Evaluate your models and improve their performance * Connect R to SQL databases and emerging big data technologies such as Spark, Hadoop, H2O, and TensorFlow Who This Book Is For Data scientists, actuaries, data analysts, financial analysts, social scientists, business and machine learning students, and other practitioners who want a clear, accessible guide to machine learning with R. No R experience is required, although prior exposure to statistics and programming is helpful.

Utilize Jeremy Hazel's vast Affinity Photo expertise to confidently solve problems in your photo edits by understanding the workflow structure and arming yourself with the most effective photo editing techniques in Affinity Photo Key Features * Learn to use masking, selection, brushes, blend mode, and color tools in the photo editing workflow * Unveil advanced personas used in the editing pipeline like tone mapping, liquefaction and more * Make your own brushes and build your own artistic pallet in Affinity Photo Book Description This book follows a practice based exploration of the Affinity Photo Program where you will learn the tools while making popular edits to your photo. The techniques and fundamentals are taught in conjunction with the WORKFLOW concept. Instead of a comprehensive description of the tools unlike other resources; in this book, you will learn the tools and approaches by doing them, and we also look at WHY they work, not simply how they work. This is neither a technical manual nor a workbook but a hybrid of project-based learning that leads to the application of tools and a deeper understanding of how to use each piece to achieve your goal. You'll learn enough of the fundamentals, such as how to navigate the interface, understand the concept of layers, and make your first edit, before we gradually increase the complexity of various projects, from single layer edits, composites, and RAW development, until you've put together a complex composition using the tools you've learned along the way. Furthermore, you will learn the best practices used by expert photo editors allowing you to finish the job flawlessly. By the end of this book, you will have a good body of work and will be able to evaluate edits you would like to make and feel confident in putting the pieces together to achieve whatever you want to accomplish with Affinity Photo. What you will learn * Develop a repeatable methodology for use in your photo editing style * Understand the most frequently utilized techniques by professional editors * Compete a body of work for use and reference in future projects * Develop your own libraries of assets, macros and tone mapping presets for your style * Recreate popular editing styles utilized in print and film * Recondition older family photos * Understand and deconstruct other editing styles to expand your knowledge Who This Book Is For This book targets beginners to any form of photo editing as well as those who are utilizing photoshop and making a switch from Adobe. Also small business owners who may utilize stock photos and want to do some brand specific editing but don't have a ton of experience doing photo based edits will find this book useful. Beginner level editors, photographers and people looking to get into product photography and advertising will be able to make the most out of this book. Table of Contents * Fundamentals of raster vs vector art * Opening your first document * An overview of the Affinity interface * Layer Fundamentals - The heart of Affinity Photo * Workflow 101-Making your first edit * The basics of masking in Affinity Photo * What is selection and how to achieve it in Affinity Photo * Basics of the brush studio panel * Blend mode fundamentals * Working with color in Affinity Photo * Editing in the RAW persona * Using Tone Mapping persona in Affinity * Using destructive liquefaction persona in Affinity Photo * Healing touchup and removal tools * Portrait touch up in Affinity * Making your own brushes * Working with Text (N.B. Additional chapters to be confirmed upon publication

Projekte entwickeln, kontrollieren und optimieren Fur alle, die MS Project 2013 einsetzen und damit jede Menge Zeit sparen wollen, ist dieses Buch genau das richtige. Locker und amusant fuhren die Autorinnen Sie durch die zahlreichen Moglichkeiten des Programms wie Termine und Ressourcen managen, verschiedene Aufgaben koordinieren und Kostenplane erstellen und zeigen Ihnen, wie Sie so nicht nur Zeit, sondern auch Nerven sparen konnen. Ausserdem erfahren Sie, wie Sie Projekte uberwachen, Autofilter die Arbeit ubernehmen lassen oder Was-ware-wenn-Szenarios durchfuhren, sodass Sie Ihre Projekte schnell und kreativ zum gewunschten Erfolg fuhren.

Learn the best practices for basic visual presentation so you can create visually appealing and flexible presentations using PowerPoint's features and deliver more impactful presentations by leveraging PowerPoint's tools Key Features * Learn how to plan your content and prepare your PowerPoint masters * Create visually appealing content using PowerPoint's features and add-ins * Deliver better presentations by leveraging PowerPoint's advanced delivery tools Book Description Doing business presentations is a must-have skill these days. It can make a difference between getting or losing that important promotion or winning or losing that very important client deal, or grant. Although most people realize doing great presentations is important, many also feel they lack the skills and that it takes them too much time. What are the main reasons for that? Very few business professionals know about good visual design, and many have been using PowerPoint for a long time without any formal training. This is where this book will help you. It leads you through the steps that will help you plan, create, and deliver more impactful and professional-looking presentations. First, by planning your content and preparing PowerPoint's masters. Then by creating visually appealing content using the application's less known or more advanced features, including the use of some useful third-party add-ins. And finally, delivering better presentations by leveraging PowerPoint's advanced delivery tools. By the end of this book, you will know what process helps you create and deliver impactful presentations more efficiently. What you will learn * Plan your presentation content and know your audience * Prepare PowerPoint's masters to speed up the development process and have a consistent look * Add and modify visual and multimedia elements * Use transitions and animations efficiently * Build flexibility and interactivity in your presentations * Practice your delivery with Presenter Coach * Leverage Presenter View during delivery to increase your confidence * Use PowerPoint Live in Teams for easier to manage remote presentations Who This Book Is For If you are a business professional wondering about best practices for presentations and if PowerPoint has any features that could help you create and deliver impactful presentations, this book is for you. You don't need any formal presentation design knowledge, but you do need to know PowerPoint's basic tools and functions such as starting and saving files, adding, copying, pasting, or moving slides. A good understanding of what is cloud storage and the use of Office 365 is also required.

Although institutions of higher education have recognized the need for preparing their graduates for a digitalized, global workplace, these efforts have been sporadic, individualized, and varied from discipline to discipline. Nevertheless, over the past 10 years, trends such as ""double classrooms,"" ""inverted classrooms,"" and ""collaborative online international learning"" (COIL) have gained traction at universities across the globe. With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, efforts to engage students in the use of digital tools and virtual collaborative teamwork increased tenfold. Creative and innovative virtual learning environments (VLEs) have emerged, and instructors have used them to connect with their students much more frequently. The holistic nature of virtual learning, its impact on employability, and the development of global citizenry have become prime areas of research amongst the digital education landscape. Now more than ever, it is essential to look at virtual learning environments and how they can be used to prepare students and employees for the opportunities and challenges of a global, digital workplace. Developments in Virtual Learning Environments and the Global Workplace provides readers with a rationale and tool kit for facilitating virtual learning in a wide variety of contexts in response to the opportunities and challenges presented by the digital global workplace. This book covers virtual learning practices, the value of virtual learning for professionals and employers, and the best practices in online learning in different settings. Additionally, the chapters dive into the future perspectives and trends within virtual learning environments and the creation/evaluation of virtual learning strategies. These insights range from diverse countries, education levels, industry sectors, and academic disciplines, making this book a comprehensive research tool. This book will greatly benefit e-learning and instructional designers, university senior managers, university staff responsible for mobility and exchange, researchers, professionals responsible for organizational development and further education, human resource directors, global company executives, managers, practitioners, stakeholders, academicians, and students looking for information on how virtual learning environments are preparing students for the global workplace.

Use modern Python libraries such as pandas, NumPy, and scikit-learn and popular machine learning and deep learning methods to solve financial modeling problems Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in the PDF format Key Features Explore unique recipes for financial data processing and analysis with Python Apply classical and machine learning approaches to financial time series analysis Calculate various technical analysis indicators and backtesting backtest trading strategies Book DescriptionPython is one of the most popular programming languages in the financial industry, with a huge collection of accompanying libraries. In this new edition of the Python for Finance Cookbook, you will explore classical quantitative finance approaches to data modeling, such as GARCH, CAPM, factor models, as well as modern machine learning and deep learning solutions. You will use popular Python libraries that, in a few lines of code, provide the means to quickly process, analyze, and draw conclusions from financial data. In this new edition, more emphasis was put on exploratory data analysis to help you visualize and better understand financial data. While doing so, you will also learn how to use Streamlit to create elegant, interactive web applications to present the results of technical analyses. Using the recipes in this book, you will become proficient in financial data analysis, be it for personal or professional projects. You will also understand which potential issues to expect with such analyses and, more importantly, how to overcome them. What you will learn Preprocess, analyze, and visualize financial data Explore time series modeling with statistical (exponential smoothing, ARIMA) and machine learning models Uncover advanced time series forecasting algorithms such as Meta's Prophet Use Monte Carlo simulations for derivatives valuation and risk assessment Explore volatility modeling using univariate and multivariate GARCH models Investigate various approaches to asset allocation Learn how to approach ML-projects using an example of default prediction Explore modern deep learning models such as Google's TabNet, Amazon's DeepAR and NeuralProphet Who this book is forThis book is intended for financial analysts, data analysts and scientists, and Python developers with a familiarity with financial concepts. You'll learn how to correctly use advanced approaches for analysis, avoid potential pitfalls and common mistakes, and reach correct conclusions for a broad range of finance problems. Working knowledge of the Python programming language (particularly libraries such as pandas and NumPy) is necessary.

Customize your Dynamics 365 customer engagement apps to increase business productivity and customer value at scale using a low-code approach Key Features Leverage Power Apps and customize Dynamics 365 CE apps to implement advanced business case scenarios Create automation with Power Automate to empower Dynamics 365 CE users to increase their productivity Easily build bots using Power Virtual Agents for both internal and external use cases Book DescriptionExtending Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement Apps with Low Code helps you gain a comprehensive, practical understanding of how a no-code/low-code project approach works for Dynamics 365 (D365) Customer Engagement (CE). This book covers the most relevant native capabilities for configuration, along with real-world scenarios to showcase the magic of extending D365 CE apps with Power Platform. The book starts by identifying different scenarios and use cases to extend D365 CE apps with a low-code approach. You'll learn about the different capabilities of Dataverse and Power Apps used to extend native applications. Next, you'll discover how to leverage Power Apps, both Canvas apps and model-driven apps, and Power Pages, to build apps and portals around D365 CE processes. You'll also explore Power Automate's capabilities to create or modify business processes, as well as incorporate new processes and automation. As you advance, you'll also discover how Power Virtual Agents can be implemented in D365 CE apps. The book concludes by teaching you to integrate Power BI natively with customer engagement, thus facilitating the construction of advanced reports and dashboards. By the end of this book, you'll have gained hands-on expertise in customizing CE apps with Power Platform to deliver more scalable and maintainable solutions. What you will learn Leverage the capabilities of Dataverse and Power Apps to extend Dynamics 365 CE native applications Create Canvas and model-driven apps on top of Dynamics 365 CE applications Integrate AI Builder capabilities with Dynamics 365 CE for advanced solutions Create automation with business process flow, cloud flows, and classic workflows Deploy a chatbot and integrate it with Dynamics 365 CE processes Embed Power BI dashboards and reports in Dynamics 365 CE apps Who this book is forThis book is for Dynamics 365 developers, solutions architects, technical functional consultants, and pre-sales architects working on Dynamics 365 customer engagement who want to customize and extend their customer engagement apps with the power of low-code/no-code technology, and gain practical experience in using Power Platform components to deliver scalable, maintainable, and intelligent solutions to their clients. Working knowledge of Dynamics 365 and basic knowledge of low-code/no-code technology will help you get the most out of this book.

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented ripples throughout society, bringing many sectors and fields, including education, to a virtual halt or forcing them to change their working style abruptly. Based on technological advancements, e-learning preparedness, and human and financial resources, higher education systems and universities in Eastern and Western countries have responded differently to this crisis. Comparative Research on Educational Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Eastern vs. Western Perspectives presents global research on the response of higher education to the COVID-19 pandemic from both the East and the West. It sheds light on the relevant challenges, strategies, and effectiveness of the policies set in place in response to the pandemic. Covering topics such as international student-related policies, pedagogical adaptation, and student motivation, this premier reference source is an essential resource for policymakers, government officials, faculty of higher education, students and educators of higher education, libraries, researchers, and academicians.