A Literature Review on Automation Testing Using Selenium+Sikuli

Automation testing is a methodology that uses an application to implement the entire life cycle of the software in less time and provides efficiency and effectiveness to the testing software. In automation testing, the tester writes scripts and uses any suitable application software to test the software application. Automation is basically an automated process that is comprised of lots of manual activities. In other words, automation testing uses automation tools like Selenium, Sikuli, Appium, etc., to write test script and execute test cases, with no or minimal manual involvement required while executing an automated test suite. Usually, automation testers write test scripts and test cases using any of the automation tool and then groups test several cases. Here, we will discuss a neat case study explaining the automation testing using a hybrid test script.

European Journal of Taxonomy: a deeper look into a decade of data

The European Journal of Taxonomy (EJT) is a decade-old journal dedicated to the taxonomy of living and fossil eukaryotes. Launched in 2011, the EJT published exactly 900 articles (31 778 pages) from 2011 to 2021. The journal has been processed in its entirety by Plazi, liberating the data therein, depositing it into TreatmentBank, Biodiversity Literature Repository and disseminating it to partners, including the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) using a combination of a highly automated workflow, quality control tools, and human curation. The dissemination of original research along with the ability to use and reuse data as freely as possible is the key to innovation, opening the corpus of known published biodiversity knowledge, and furthering advances in science. This paper aims to discuss the advantages and limitations of retro-conversion and to showcase the potential analyses of the data published in EJT and made findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR) by Plazi. Among others, taxonomic and geographic coverage, geographical distribution of authors, citation of previous works and treatments, timespan between the publication and treatments with their cited works are discussed. Manually counted data were compared with the automated process, the latter being analysed and discussed. Creating FAIR data from a publication results in an average multiplication factor of 166 for additional access through the taxonomic treatments, figures and material citations citing the original publication in TreatmentBank, the Biodiversity Literature Repository and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Despite the advances in processing, liberating data remains cumbersome and has its limitations which lead us to conclude that the future of scientific publishing involves semantically enhanced publications.

The Automated Map. Public innovation for the generation of the National Topographic Map of Spain

Several reasons have prompted the National Geographic Institute of Spain (IGN-Spain) to implement an automatic process to generate the National Topographic Map 1:25,000 (MTN) instead trough the traditional manual way, pointing out the growing lack of human resources, in addition to the search for a quick response to the increasing demand of updated geoinformation by the society.This new automated process provides an annual production of all the map sheets composing the MTN25 (4.019 files), what is an unprecedented time record, so that the users can quickly both download them from the Download Centre Website and visualize the maps through the visualization web services WMS and WMTS. This methodology is also applied to the creation of sheets for printed publication, whose final output requires a simplified manual editing process.

Trends in the development of the direction of electroderatization

The article discusses the existing methods of deratization based on the electrophysical principle. The advantages and disadvantages of these methods are analyzed; therefore, theoretical options for improving these systems are proposed. A little-studied promising direction in electroderatization, treatment of premises with ozone, generated under the influence of an electric discharge, is highlighted. The prospect of this direction is indicated, in addition to the direct deratization properties, but also other positive factors that result from ozone treatment. It is proposed to use the hardware and software complex of the automated process control system when carrying out deratization measures. Keywords: CONTROL METHODS, PESTS IN AGROINDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, ELECTROPHYSICAL METHOD OF PROTECTION, ELECTRODERATIZATION, RODENTS, ULTRASONIC DETERRENT, BARRIER ELECTRODERATIZER, OZONATION, APCS

Simulation Environment for Development of Automated Process Control System in Coal Mining

This paper describes a visual interactive simulation system of technological processes intended for the development and execution of simulation and emulation models for automated process control systems in coal mining. A set of simulation models of various subsystems of a mine was developed with the help of this simulation system. These models united to create simulation environment. Simulation environment is visually interactive, include emulation models of technological equipment and allow simulating complex situations in mines and working faces. Simulation environment was used for testing of control programs executed in programmable logic controllers.

Fully Automated 68Ga-Labeling and Purification of Macroaggregated Albumin Particles for Lung Perfusion PET Imaging

Lung PET/CT is a promising imaging modality for regional lung function assessment. Our aim was to develop and validate a fast, simple, and fully automated GMP compliant [68Ga]Ga-MAA labeling procedure, using a commercially available [99mTc]Tc-MAA kit, a direct gallium-68 eluate and including a purification of the [68Ga]Ga-MAA.Method: The synthesis parameters (pH, heating temperature) were manually determined. Automated 68Ga-labeling of MAA was then developed on a miniAIO (Trasis®, Ans, Belgium) module. An innovative automated process was developed for the purification. The process was then optimized and adapted to automate both the [68Ga]Ga-MAA synthesis and the isolation of gallium-68 eluate required for the pulmonary ventilation PET/CT.Results: The 15-min process demonstrated high reliability and reproducibility, with high synthesis yield (>95 %). Mean [68Ga]Ga-MAA radiochemical purity was 99 % ± 0.6 %. The 68Ga-labeled MAA particles size and morphology remained unchanged.Conclusion: A fast, user friendly, and fully automated process to produce GMP [68Ga]Ga-MAA for clinical use was developed. This automated process combining the advantages of using a non-modified MAA commercial kit, a gallium-68 eluate without pre-purification and an efficient final purification of the [68Ga]Ga-MAA may facilitate the implementation of lung PET/CT imaging in nuclear medicine departments.

Combined architecture of an intelligent agent using models

The article considers the problem of building a multi-agent system for solving information security problems of automated process control systems. The architecture of an intelligent agent is proposed and studied, the features of which are the presence of a set of models used both for assessing the security of a certain node of the security object – an automated system, and for making decisions aimed at increasing the level of security. The results obtained in the course of research improve both the scientific and methodological apparatus for integrating methods of multi-agent technologies, and expand the areas of its practical application.