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Quality Assurance Testing Perfected: A User Flow Tutorial

As products and services deploy faster and faster, quality assurance (QA) has to adapt and deliver more coverage in less time while maintaining high quality.

In this article, Toptal Software Engineer Jade Russel Hancox examines how we can use the user flow to boost the speed and efficiency of QA processes without compromising on quality.

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Jade Russel Hancox

Jade Russel Hancox

Jade is an award-winning quality assurance professional with extensive experience in manual QA and the automation of APIs, UIs, and databases.

Hybrid Power: Flutter Advantages and Benefits

Google’s Flutter framework has quickly caught on among developers who want to target Android and iOS from the same codebase—and businesses who know the value of a single project team yielding presence in both markets.

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Asad Jibran Ahmed

Asad Jibran Ahmed

Jibran is a software engineer with more than a decade of experience building scalable, cross-platform products. He has led engineering teams at early-stage startups and enterprises like Stripe, with a focus on clean architecture and long-term maintainability. He specializes in developing mobile apps with Flutter and React Native to deliver multi-platform user experiences from a single codebase.

Adobe XD vs Sketch: Showdown 2020

Two heavyweight contenders continue to battle it out to capture the top spot for the most favored design tool: Adobe XD vs Sketch. Which tool will rule them all? We explore the differences in a comprehensive design tool showdown.

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Vincent Abou Ghazale

Vincent Abou Ghazale

Vincent is a UX/UI designer with deep experience helping digital agencies and startups achieve success through innovative design strategies.

Robo-advisor Industry Portfolio Risk: Efficiency or Corner-cutting?

Robo-advisor investing uses algorithms (instead of humans) for portfolio selection and rebalancing. Its affordable ways have opened up wealth management options to the masses, but its means of quantifying risk need more sophistication and tailoring to individual circumstances.

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Ishwinder Singh, CFA

Ishwinder Singh, CFA

Ishwinder is an investment banking and private equity professional with 12 years of experience working on international projects.

React Test-driven Development: From User Stories to Production

Employing a test-driven development (TDD) approach in React projects tends to be straightforward, especially with the aid of Jest and Enzyme. However, there are a few things to look out for.

In this article, a Toptal JavaScript expert demonstrates his React TDD process, from epics and user stories to development and production.

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Design Constraints Are Not Restraints, They Stoke Creativity

Design constraints are clues. They help designers triangulate between the problems, resources, and criteria inherent in every project and prevent precious time wasted on extraneous design ideas.

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Micah Bowers

Micah Bowers

Micah helps businesses craft meaningful engagement through branding, illustration, and design.

A Complete Guide to Testing React Hooks

A relatively recent addition to React, hooks have already changed React development for the better through improved code readability and state management. But how do we test them?

In this article, Toptal React Developer Avi Aryan outlines why it is crucial to test hooks and introduces us to his React Hooks testing routine.

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Avi Aryan

Avi Aryan

Avi is a full-stack engineer with expertise in JavaScript, Python, and Go. He is a multiple-time Google Summer of Code mentor and specializes in React development, modern web applications, and contributing to open-source projects.

Financial Modeling Case Study: OOVA

Amy Divaraniya, CEO and co-founder of OOVA, created a product she knew the market needed. Yet, while she was pitching investors trying to close her seed round, she found that the financial projections needed a fresh pair of eyes.

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Elizabeth J. Howell Hanano, CFA

Elizabeth J. Howell Hanano, CFA

Elizabeth was an equity research analyst on both the buyside and sellside before transitioning to freelancing where she specializes in market research and valuation.

Remote Brand Strategy Workshops: The Ultimate Step-by-Step Guide

Brand strategy workshops align stakeholders and set the tone for the work that follows. Better still, they produce brands that go beyond aesthetic appeal to achieve business goals.

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Charlie Osborne

Charlie Osborne

Charlie is a marketing expert, brand consultant, and digital designer with more than a decade of industry experience in business strategy, graphic design, branding, animation, and digital marketing. His approach to branding is guided by evidence-based thinking and an effective, proven process.

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