I recently had the opportunity to work on a software development project as part of a 300 person team. On this team there were two types of developers: user interface (UI) developers and service developers. In order to evaluate the effect of a code change, UI developers needed to deploy their modified JavaScript files to […]
Errors on report.js I recently ran into an issue when compiling my html friendly cucumber reports. For larger tests run, when attempting to view the reports generated in the cucumber-html-report, the screen appeared blank. After some debugging, I noticed that the reports.js file generated was abruptly terminated. The true cause of the issue is still […]
So I run a server at home hosting several sites, including a few personal sandboxes for development. I went to check one of sites, and noticed it was taking an incredibly long time to load. When I logged into the machine, I got the dreaded Usage of /: 99.9% of 27.50GB disk space error. Now, […]
With large complex software applications, builds can often be split into different steps and tasks creating a series of jobs for our build pipeline. On my current project we are utilizing Jenkins to implement Continuous Integration/Continuous Deliver (CI/CD) and between the jobs for compilation, smoke tests, acceptance tests and deployment across environments in several different VLANs, […]
The R programming language is an open-source, interactive language that was designed for manipulating datasets, creating visualizations, and performing statistical analyses. It is based on the S language, which was originally developed at Bell Laboratories. R is a full-featured language (it supports conditionals, loops, functions, I/O, etc.) and its functionality can be easily extended by […]
I spent much of my formative years in High School and College being indoctrinated with Object-Orientated Programming (OOP). When used well, OOP provides clear modular structure for programs, defines clear interfaces, makes software easier to maintain and modify, allows multiple functions to share code (cord re-use), and reduces large, complex issues to smaller, more manageable […]
Introduction Now that we have created some simple cucumber tests and built a sturdy selenium framework, we want to setup an environment where these tests can be quickly and conveniently run against our code. Due to the nature of development, code is constantly changing, and we want to ensure that each change to the code […]
Introduction Initially this post was going to contain instructions on running tests locally, and on SecureCI. Due to the lengthiness of the post, I decided to break this up into two different posts. This post will cover just setting up and running tests locally, building on the previous posts of creating some simple cucumber tests […]
Backup process of Amazon RDS Database instance Make a backup using DB Snapshot using AWS management console (This is a manual process for taking one DB Snapshot) DB Snapshots are user-initiated and enable to back up DB instance in a known state as frequently as you wish, and then restore to that specific state at […]
Backup process of EC2 instance Make a backup snapshot using the AWS console (This is a manual process for taking one snapshot) This is a simple backup procedure for taking one snapshot and storing it in EBS (Elastic Block Store). A snapshot is a copy of a disk volume. A snapshot is not a complete […]
