Qxf2 services provides testing services for startups, a majority of our client base is offshore so as to keep them informed about the days Qxf2 is going to be on PTO (public and optional holidays) we follow a practice of notifying them 3 to 7 days in advance. This helps in proper planning and estimating the work. Every year, Qxf2 […]
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Scraping websites using Octoparse (no programming!)
Did you know you can scrape data from webpages without writing a single line of code? In this post, we will talk about a tool called Octoparse. We used Octoparse to scrape data from a list of URLs, without any coding at all. Data is valuable and it’s not always easy to get the correct data from the web sources […]
Extracting data from PDFs using Python
When testing highly data dependent products, I find it very useful to use data published by governments. When government organizations publish data online, barring a few notable exceptions, it usually releases it as a series of PDFs. The PDF file format was not designed to hold structured data, which makes extracting data from PDFs difficult. In this post, I will […]
Scraping a Wikipedia table using Python
A colleague of mine tests a product that helps big brands target and engage Hispanic customers in the US. As you can imagine, they use a lot of survey data as well as openly available data to build the analytics in their product. We do test the accuracy of the underlying algorithms. But the algorithms used are only going to […]