Data integrity is a core feature of a database. The promise: It doesn’t only allow structured queries (> SQL) but also represents a logically consistent data-state at any given point in time. Transactions help to bundle changes into atomic operations (though they might take hours to complete). On commit, a range of conditions can be checked to guarantee the integrity of the internal structure.

Eclipse Con Europe starts next week, and we're excited to be giving a Jubula tutorial on Wednesday morning. We want to use the time we have as effectively as possible, so here is your "homework" to prepare for the tutorial :)

We’re getting into quite a nice rhythm here at BREDEX with the Eclipse releases. On Friday, the Jubula Features were released with Indigo SR1, and today we’ve released the standalone version of Jubula alongside the latest version of GUIdancer. What’s new? This time it’s really worth talking about what’s new for Jubula, because it’s our [...]

Neuss may be a little further away than last year’s Eclipse Testing Day location of Darmstadt, but that didn’t stop our 60 registered participants turning up bright and early for the second Eclipse Testing Day on 7th September. This year we had a wide variety of topics over the course of the day, focusing on [...]

… or if you’ve ever kicked yourself because a bug made it to production that really shouldn’t have… Most of us know that our testing could be improved. The question is how? Do we need to find the right people, make our processes better, or just use the right tools? Maybe it’s a combination of [...]

One of the additional features that GUIdancer provides compared to Jubula is creating BIRT reports of test progress. There are some default reports provided with the installation but you can customize the reports or create your own. Creating a report using the GUIdancer Integrated Test Environment is straightforward (and you will find it documented in [...]

In follow up to Joachim Hofer’s series and Matt’s post on Jenkins and Jubula, I thought I’d write a short guide with some tips on using Jubula to test multiple applications, or multiple instances of the same application, during one test run. The use case for doing this is more often than not some kind [...]

Just in time to get really excited about Eclipse Indigo, we’ll be doing a Jubula Webinar on 15th June at 6pm CET. Jubula is a part of the new Eclipse for Testers package and will be released in version 1.0 with Eclipse Indigo. This webinar will be a great chance to hear about the project’s [...]

A short while ago I was asked to lend a hand in a project. There was a great deal to do and, as always, time was a critical factor. Despite the necessity to get going as quickly as possible, when I arrived I found that I had no desk and no user details for the [...]

Around 15 years ago, there was a questionnaire about the current state of software testing. Between the 1st and 31st May, the survey is being re-conducted to find out what is happening now and what has changed. The survey is being supervised by professors at universities and supported by companies and testing associations. The results [...]

I’ve been feeling this entry coming on for quite some time. I very frequently get asked questions along the lines of I’ve recorded a test and now I want to copy parts of it to use elsewhere. Every time I’m asked, I think to myself, I must write a blog about how there is a [...]

Here in Germany they have a yearly event called “Girls’ Day” designed to encourage young girls to consider careers in technical and scientific branches. More recently it’s been known as “Zukunftstag” (future day) to make it more general and more similar to “Take our Children to Work” days. We’ve had individual participants over the past [...]

I’ve uploaded our slides from the EclipseCon Jubula Tutorial to SlideShare. The tutorial download pack is also still available for anyone interested in (re)downloading it.

I thought I’d repost the link to the Jubula tutorial package now that our planet eclipse feed is working again (thanks Gunnar!). People planning on coming on Thursday should download the setup file and example project from this page. You can install the program in advance or on the day, we’ll cover importing the project [...]

On Thursday last week we had the kick-off meeting for the newly founded ASQF special interest group for software testing in Lower Saxony. We met in the “Haus der Wissenschaft” in Braunschweig, where we had a nice room large enough for the 70 attendees. The evening started with an introduction from Dr. Klaudia Dussa-Zieger from [...]

The background Do you know that queasy feeling when a new version of your software with a bunch of changes and new features is going to be rolled out? You know that there is always at least one bug you can be sure that the users are destined to find. In your mind you are [...]