The vicious circle of bad test code and how to break it
SUMMARY Compared to the great advances in programming languages and tools, the day-to-day practice of how we actually code is... Read more
Scaling Spring Boot Apps on Docker Windows Containers with Ansible: A Complete Guide incl Spring Cloud Netflix and Docker Compose
05/30/17
Provision a Docker Windows Container with Ansible? No Problem! But wasn´t Docker meant for more than one Container?! Don´t we... Read more
5 recipes to make your work flow in JIRA
05/10/17
Atlassian JIRA is a great tool to build workflows for every kind of use case whether in Software Development, IT... Read more
Product Routes (AKA „Roadmaps”)
Roadmaps are best practice in software product management. This blog post summarizes a discussion we had at codecentric internally about the need of predictability and delivering value. Read more
Running Spring Boot Apps on Docker Windows Containers with Ansible: A Complete Guide incl Packer, Vagrant & Powershell
04/06/17
This is a crazy world. It´s not only possible to make Ansible provision Windows machines. No! There are Docker Windows... Read more
Writing Integration Tests with Docker Compose and JUnit
03/06/17
An integration test verifies the communication paths and interactions between components to detect interface defects. — Martin Fowler In my... Read more
Integration testing strategies for Spring Boot microservices part 2
This is the second part of my earlier post about strategies for integration-testing Spring Boot applications that consist of multiple... Read more
Robot Framework Web-Template – Selenium2, PhantomJS, Basic Authentification
02/24/17
This article and the corresponding template-project has been updated on 10th of March 2017 to include support for Geckodriver. This... Read more
Integration testing strategies for Spring Boot microservices
SUMMARY: Unit tests are a necessary condition to clean code, but today’s convention-over-configuration frameworks like Spring Boot are often used... Read more