Great events are often foreshadowed – As we’ve just announced the newly created open-source Eclipse-based functional testing tool Jubula, we want to give you the opportunity to have a look at what Jubula is all about and even get a first live demo of it’s capabilities: All you have to do is join me at [...]

This week saw the first Eclipse Testing Day, held in Darmstadt on Wednesday 8th September. Co-organized by MicroDoc GmbH and BREDEX GmbH, we were happy to receive sponsorship from the Eclipse Foundation, the OSGi Foundation and Xored. Testing Experience magazine was also a supporting organization, providing free magazines for each participant on the day and [...]

On the way to work this morning I was thinking about this concept. It seems to be a fundamental truth, even though it seems paradoxical when you first look at it. It often happens when I find an error in a new or changed feature that my “spider sense” starts tingling. The test scenario, test data and intuition/experience make [...]

The registration for the Eclipse Testing Day on the 8th September in Darmstadt is now open! We’ve created an Eventbrite site to ease the registration process. Details of prices and payment are both on the Eclipse wiki and directly on the Eventbrite site, but just get in touch if you have questions. We’ve also extended [...]

One of the things we’ve been working on in terms of agility over the past few sprints is improving our stories for the sprint. Previously we’d found ourselves wasting time because a story wasn’t thought through well enough, either from the development/implementation perspective (we went the wrong way technology-wise) or in terms of the features [...]

The Apache POI project provides a free open-source library for creating, reading and manipulating Microsoft Office documents. The functionality for working with Excel files is pretty mature and is quite feature-complete. Lately, I was confronted with a problem concerning formula evaluation. I had a pre-existing Excel template file that had some cells with placeholder texts. [...]

Many of the reasons I’ve read for working agilely talk about customer satisfaction, being able to react to changes and better quality. These are all excellent reasons, and we have discovered the benefits of them for ourselves in various projects. I’d just like to add a reason to the list, which is more from the [...]

March has been a busy time for us at Bredex so far. At the beginning of the month, Markus Tiede and I had an article about Event Handling in automated functional tests published in Testing Experience magazine. And in the latest Eclipse Magazine (03.10), the second part of the tutorial about Usability in Eclipse Applications [...]

We’ve got a couple of BREDEX/Eclipse events coming up in the next few weeks. Braunschweig Eclipse Stammtisch First of all, we’ll be having the first Eclipse “Stammtisch” of the year on the 24th February here at BREDEX.  Ralph Müller will be there and we’ll be hearing from Markus Tiede about a “normal day working with [...]