Developer Blog Archive

Apr 12

Liquibase: Our setup in a larger scale project

In this post, we want to show you our Liquibase setup in a larger scale project that we’ve been developing for some time now. Gather Requirements First off, a bit…

Apr 10

Continuous Deployment – Automatic Backup Script

A few words about Continuous Deployment Continuous Deployment is the deployment or release of code to Production as soon as it is ready. (…) The automated process is key because…

Feb 27

Acceptance testing at synyx – Part 4

In the last posts we set up our infrastructure to be able to aquire Browsers that run on a remote host and we created a selenium Grid infrastructure that is…

Feb 19

Monitoring – NIH style (part 2)

This expands on the idea in the first part of this blog series. We will still be working NIH style here – this time to improve the visuals, user-interface and…

Feb 11

Monitoring – NIH style

Not being a pure Developer but more of a DevOp brings all sorts of interesting problems. When you not only sell software but are also included in the whole life-cycle…

Feb 4

Acceptance testing at synyx – Part 3

After showing you how to request a remote browser from a Selenium Grid in the last part its time to put some effort in getting the grid running smoothly. Also,…

Jan 29

Acceptance testing at synyx – Part 2

In the first part of the series I gave some reasons why to do acceptance testing (or webtests) as well as a rough overview how we do it at synyx.…

Jan 23

Acceptance testing at synyx – Part 1

Overview – Why and how we do web-testing In my team at synyx we wrote a lot of tests in 2012. Most of the tests were unit-tests (as a consequence…

Nov 22

Visualize JavaScript code quality and code coverage with Sonar – part 2

In my previous post I wrote about the Sonar JavaScript-Plugin, JsTestDriver, jstd-maven-plugin and some problems with the configuration. Meanwhile we’ve got a working setup which I want to explain in…