Recently I have been researching better ways to write my Selenium tests as they have become rather hard to maintain. One pattern that I have found immensely useful is the Page Object Model (POM). In this blog post I will talk about what makes the POM a good pattern and show a simple framework I put […]
I recently needed to setup OpenLDAP for a client. We setup an entire pipeline, similar to SecureCI and wanted to tie all of the tools into one login system. The installation was pretty straitforward, but we wanted to ensure our tooling stack was secured, so we moved a bit beyond the basics. This is all […]
DevOps and Agile transformations, or any cultural shift for that matter, almost certainly needs a champion to help evangelize for change and to clear the inevitable road blocks. You can’t do it that way because we’ve always done it another way? Call the Champion to get us permission to try something different this time. There’s […]
Disclaimer: I have no intention of detailing how the box was exploited, with a map of how to break this system again. I intend to show the methods used to discover and trace the breach throughout the server. Welcome to part 2 of 3 of my Forensics Analysis blog. At this point in […]
Gene Gotimer just published an article at Techwell Insights discussing how to choose what testing to do in your pipeline and when. Adapting the agile principle of small incremental changes and applying it to rounds of testing, the goal is to do just enough testing at each stage to give you confidence that the next […]
Last month I posted about a major update I made for my testing framework. A lot of new functionality was rolled in, and the execution of the tests was significantly cleaned up. My co-worker Marco also merged in some changes, making the project Gradle friendly. The more I use this tooling, the more I like […]
I have now twice spent multiple days trying to get a Gitblit server to communicate with a Jenkins server over SSH. This was done as part of ongoing work to update the Coveros SecureCI product with the goal of properly configuring both tools and a self-signed certificate to enable Gitblit’s post-commit jenkins hook to trigger builds. Given that […]
With the advent of new web-based applications, the ability to dynamically manipulate data, provide interactivity, and be compatible on all devices and browsers has become more important than ever. At the end of the day, the core technologies involved are HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. From these three things, a lot of helping technologies and frameworks […]
This is a two part post where I will show you how to setup development environment locally. We will start with Vagrant and Virtual Box and their initial setup. Then we will jump into multi-machine setup and provisioning using Puppet. You will also see how Database and WebApp VMs can work together. Vagrant and Virtual […]
Disclaimer: I have no intention of detailing how the box was exploited, with a map of how to break this system again. I intend to show the methods used to discover and trace the breach throughout the server. Welcome to part 1 of 3 of my Forensics Analysis blog. At some point in the […]
