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Chatbot Common Terminology

Chatbot or intelligent bots or just bots, you may call them whatever you wish to. Gradually, they are becoming an integral part of our daily life. Because of its capabilities to get integrated with almost any messaging service say it WhatsApp, Facebook messenger, Snapchat, etc. they are becoming more and more known to us.  As many of us want to learn about chatbots and the way they function, I thought it would be good to share the common terminology used in chatbot development. So, here we go. Intent : It's a unit of work you intend to perform using the bot. It could be ordering pizza, checking your bank account balance, reserving a seat in your favourite restaurant, etc. Utterance : Example phrases, to understand the Intent, is called utterance. Bot will then use AI to able to understand the phrase.  For each Intent we generally train the bots with 10 to 15 Utterances. Bot should still detect phrases which are not part of Utterances and respond to them as it is unknown to th

Working with JMeter for Load Testing Oracle ADF UI Application

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In this post, I would like to share my recent experience on how we can setup Apache JMeter™ 4.0 to test Oracle ADF 12c application. This blog mainly focuses on setting-up JMeter, creating test plan for UI application and executing the plan. Setting-up JMeter Download latest version of JMeter and install, by just unzipping, on your system. Navigate to the bin folder of your installed location (Ex: C:\apache-jmeter-4.0\bin) Locate jmeter.bat and start it. P.S.: If you get any error while starting jmeter.bat complaining about missing JAR file, try to download it again using some different mirror. Creating Test Plan Start jmeter.bat. You should get a new screen with an existing Test Plan as below. In this case, I renamed it to MyTestPlan. Click on Templates. JMeter gives us a lot of options when it comes to predefined templates. As we are going to test UI application in our case, we will select "Building a Web Test Plan" from the drop-down a