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 minutes 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 minutes 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 minutes 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 minutes 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 sends me the link to the blog entry announcing this feature (I’m not linking it intentionally) with Read More …
