Multiple test databases in Bitbucket Pipelines
Reading Time: 2 minutes If you have to use unlimited multiple databases on Bitbucket Pipelines for your testing, you have to be creative. Here’s how I solved it. Read More …
Enable xdebug on demand in your local docker environment
Reading Time: 2 minutes Xdebug is a cool PHP debugger, but it can seriously slow down code execution. Learn how to easily toggle xdebug on and off in your local docker environment. Read More …
Technical Debt and Refactoring – Eurostaff Meetup
Reading Time: < 1 minute On 23.01.2020, I gave a talk on the Eurostaff Connect Meetup about Technical Debt and Refactoring. Thanks to the kind audience on that evening, it was a pleasure speaking to you. I received a lot Read More …
Why change code that works? – On Refactoring and Technical Debt – Part 2
Reading Time: 7 minutes Bad software quality is slowing down your development speed? Read this article on how to deal with Technical debt in your daily routine. Read More …
Why change code that works? On Refactoring and Technical Debt – Part 1
Reading Time: 8 minutes Why would anyone spend time and money on rewriting software which is doing fine? This post elaborates some problems caused by “Technical Debt”. Read More …
http-helper and config packages reached stable state
Reading Time: < 1 minute http-helper and config, two recent PHP composer packages of mine, have just reached stable state a few days ago. http-helper is there to help you debugging http requests and responses. It is purely for development purposes Read More …
Continuous Testing and Beyond – Software Quality in Web Projects
Reading Time: < 1 minute Two weeks ago I was invited to speak on the 121 Test Automation Day Conference Berlin about one of my most favourite topics – Software Quality in Web Projects. It really was a nice audience Read More …
PhantomJS is discontinued
Reading Time: 3 minutes The waiting for PhantomJS 2.5 seems to have come to an end – unfortunately, it will most likely never be released. According to a statement of Vitaly Slobodin, the current maintainer of PhantomJS, the further Read More …
File uploads not working with PhantomJS
Reading Time: < 1 minute Just a quick one today: when you struggle with writing Acceptance Tests for file uploads using PhantomJS (will version 2.5 ever come out? *sigh*), here are two possible solutions for you. File inputs are ugly, Read More …
Automated bad practice
Reading Time: 3 minutes One new feature of Laravel 5.4 are so called “Automatic Facades”. My colleague was expecting my reaction when he send me the link to the blog entry announcing this feature (I’m not linking it intentionally) Read More …
