This is a mystery story of Jython, Hudson and Tomcat. Our environment for continuous integration is based on the Robot Framework and Hudson, where Hudson is running on a Tomcat-Server under Linux. From here our Robot-Tests are started and as we are implementing our Tests (Keywords) in Java we are using Jython for this.
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In the near future I have to write my thesis. So I bought the book “Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware” from Andy Hunt who authored “Pragmatic Programmer” as well. read more…

Everyone working with Selenium probably knows some problems when testing “complicated” web sites. Complicated here often means extensive use of JavaScript. For such web sites tests recorded with the Selenium IDE cannot be executed successfully. But what is worse: Sometimes one can simply not find a proper XPath oder DOM expression to perform some action on an element. For those cases simulating a “native keystroke” could be the last resort indeed.
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This is a reflection of the meet the experts – architecture that took place at codecentric in Solingen at November-27-2009.

Since the whole event including all talks was held completly in german an english version of this reflection would probably not be very expedient. Thus I decided not to translate this announcement.

You can read the full version of the reflection if you switch the language to german (by clicking on the german flag in the upper left corner of this page).

Beyond that we will – of course – carry on providing an english version of our blog entries.

scrumdays are local smaller sized events where SCRUM communities can meet and exchange their experience. As we are also very active in the agile community, codecentric of course had also a booth at todays scrumday in Düsseldorf. From the talks I was able to pick up two trending topics, which are quite interesting. They are not dealing with what scrum is and why it is great.
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