On software quality, collaborative development, wikis and Open Source...

Docker and iptables

Vincent Massol — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 09:24:29 GMT

On the XWiki project, we use TestContainers to run our functional Selenium tests inside Docker containers, in order to test various configurations.

STAMP, the end

Vincent Massol — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 14:24:28 GMT

The STAMP research project has been a boon for the XWiki open source project. It has allowed the project to gain a lot in terms of quality. There have been lots of areas of improvements but the main domains that have substantially benefited the quality are:

Scheduled Jenkinsfile

Vincent Massol — Sun, 09 Jun 2019 08:50:44 GMT

Context

Global vs Local Coverage

Vincent Massol — Sat, 09 Feb 2019 13:31:14 GMT

Context

Resolving Maven Artifacts with ShrinkWrap... or not

Vincent Massol — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 12:30:02 GMT

On the XWiki project we wanted to generate custom XWiki WARs directly from our unit tests (to deploy XWiki in Docker containers automatically and directly from the tests).

Environment Testing Experimentations

Vincent Massol — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 08:01:51 GMT

I've been trying to define the best solution for doing functional testing in multiple environments (different DBs, Servlet containers, browsers) for XWiki. Right now on XWiki we test automatically on a single environment (Firefox, Jetty, HSQLDB) and we do the other environment tests manually.

Automatic Test Generation with DSpot

Vincent Massol — Wed, 09 May 2018 10:01:19 GMT

DSpot is a mutation testing tool that automatically generates new tests from existing test suites. It's being developed as part of the STAMP European research project (to which XWiki SAS is participating to, represented by me).

Devoxx France 2018

Vincent Massol — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 08:51:03 GMT

Another Devoxx France and another huge success

Dagstuhl 2018

Vincent Massol — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 07:58:50 GMT

I had the honor of being invited to a seminar on "Automatic Quality Assurance and Release" at Dagstuhl by Benoit Baudry (we collaborate together on the STAMP research project).

QDashboard & SonarQube

Vincent Massol — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 15:21:15 GMT

Here's a story from the past... (it happened 10 years ago).