There are several different tools to maintain the internal structure of a java application available. The tools range from simple open source software like jdepend and degraph to full fledged architecture…

Recently we had a problem related Springs auto-proxy feature that I think is worth writing about. The Problem We use Spring as our framework of choice because it provides us…

Anstatt immer wieder zur Fortbildung auf Konferenzen zu fahren hatten wir dieses Jahr noch eine andere Idee: Wir hatten einen Inhouse-Workshop zum Thema “Visual Thinking” mit Tanja alias @frauhoelle. Ziel…

Zeig’ mir Deinen Code und ich sage Dir wer Du bist. Oftmals kommen Unternehmen mit der Bitte um einen Code-Review auf uns zu. Gründe dafür gibt es viele, jedoch dreht…

The last few blogs about acceptance-testing focused on setting up a nice and scalable infrastructure to do testing through the (web)-GUI using a Selenium grid. Since we’ve got this running…

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…

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,…

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.…

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…

My team and I are currently working on an project we first started in early 2010. The application is in production since sometime late 2010 and there has been no…

Dienstag 15:32 Rebecca gibt mir die Unterlagen, Tickets und Infos zur BedCon. Perfekt organisiert – sie hat sich bereits um alles gekümmert. Mittwoch – Anreise 16:32 Flo, Aljona und ich…

Yet another year is almost over. One of the reasons I notice this is because Devoxx is coming up again. And – of course – Synyx is going to be…

A while ago we wanted to store internationalisation for a project in database to allow (a subset of) users to create and update internationalisation using the application itself. When we…

This year in November three of my colleagues and I were visiting the best Java conference ever – Devoxx in Antwerp (blogs here: 1,2,3). Now, since more than a month…

So this is the second part of my experiences with Devoxx 2010. I’ll still stick to not writing about the talks in detail but telling my thoughts as a “first…

Employees of Synyx are going to Devoxx in Antwerp since three years. I’ve never been here before but my colleagues have always reportet that they loved the conference. So this…

Some days ago I came along a problem with our beloved build tool Maven2. Since this was the first real problem with the tool I could not solve or find…

In my opinion its much better to have a team working on a project than a single person. Even if this means that your customer might have to wait a…

Many of the Web-Applications we develop for our customers are based upon our small Framework on top of Spring / Spring MVC. This framework basically brings often used components ready-to-use…

Last week I spent some time hunting down an internationalization-issue that came along while developing for a recent project. Let me explain what happened: Message-Lookup – of course – always…