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Improving Software Quality through Communication

Jonathan KauffmanMarch 26, 2014Development, Project ManagementNo comments

I recently gave a presentation to undergraduate students about some of the challenges of working on large-scale software development projects. One of the key challenges that I highlighted was communication. Although this is not specific to a software development project, it is extremely important. If communication is not performed properly, then it becomes nearly impossible […]

Java 8 Default Methods and Multiple Inheritance

Coveros StaffMarch 22, 2014Blogs1 comment

Introduction Once I saw that Java 8 was released, I decided it was time to start looking in depth at the new enhancements to the language. I admit, I didn’t follow this release as closely as I did 7, so the only enhancement I knew of was lambda expressions. As I read through the documentation, […]

Regular Expressions (A Setup For Cucumber Glue Code)

Coveros StaffMarch 17, 2014Blogs, Development, Software Tools4 comments

Introduction A large part of writing Cucumber Glue Code is ensuring you have the perfect regular expression for the Step Definition. So we’re taking a break from our usual direct Cucumber posts, and dedicating this post to the setup for next month’s post. Regular Expressions A regular expression, or regex for short, is a pattern […]

Background and Hooks for Cucumber-jvm

Coveros StaffFebruary 20, 2014Blogs, Cucumber, Open Source, Software Tools, Testing34 comments

Introduction Before we dive into best practices and tricks in writing our glue code, we want to cover a few last tricks on keeping our Feature files clean. The first of which is how to utilize the Background feature to pull out common test steps. Background Often times when writing multiple scenarios within a singular […]

Maven POM Lint Plugin

Coveros StaffJanuary 21, 2014Agile, Blogs, Development, Software ToolsNo comments

I am a big fan of static analysis and formatting tools. I just like my code to be as clean as possible. At the very least, being clean makes the code easier to read and maintain. If I can find a tool that will make it easy for me to keep my code clean, I’ll […]

SecureCI™ Testing Framework

Coveros StaffJanuary 20, 2014Blogs3 comments

Introduction The new release of SecureCI™ comes bundled with a custom developed testing framework. I wrote this framework to build upon Selenium’s tools, specifically to provide more error handling capabilities and custom output reporting. While the SecureCI Testing Framework is both designed and optimized for Selenium Webdriver, it can be run for any type of […]

Coveros releases new version of SecureCI™

Jeff PierceJanuary 16, 2014News & EventsNo comments

SecureCI™, the industry’s first and only open-source continuous integration solution, just got better! Fairfax, VA., January 16, 2014 — Coveros, the market leader in the delivery of secure, reliable software, announced today availability of the newest version of SecureCI™ which includes updated and integrated versions of best in class open source products for source code […]

What Not To Do With Password Management

Coveros StaffJanuary 2, 2014Agile, Blogs, Development, Security, TestingNo comments

As one of our resident security guys, I thought I might write up a quick guide about what not to do with password management. As long as you build a website or web service, at some point you’re most likely going to have to store a password. Unfortunately for many developers out there (in organizations […]

SecureCI 2013 Q4 Release

Coveros StaffDecember 10, 2013Agile, Cloud, Continuous Integration, Development, Open Source, Project Management, SecureCI, Security, Software Tools, TestingNo comments

Introduction Quarter 4 for Coveros has been action packed for SecureCI™. We performed several major updates to our SecureCI™ version, bringing the software tools up to date, and making them more user and out-of-the-box friendly. For those unaware, SecureCI™ is an integrated stack of tools that provides version control, wiki, project/issue management, and code analysis […]

Force Mounting Drives in Cloud Formation on Windows

Coveros StaffNovember 22, 2013Blogs, Cloud, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Integration2 comments

I’ve been doing a lot of AWS, EC2, Cloud Formation, Chef, and Windows lately. In particular, we’re building a Continuous Delivery pipeline that launches groups of machines to build up application stacks. I have a situation where I need to build Microsoft SQL Server machines in the Amazon EC2 cloud environment. In particular, the operations […]

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