Some days ago I came across a newly created Jenkins plugin called Configuration as Code (in short Jenkins casc). This plugin allows you to define Jenkins configuration in a very…
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Category: Continuous Integration
Testing Microservices: Tools and Frameworks
There are some key challenges around a testing microservices architecture that we are facing. The selection of the right tools is one of those elements that help us deal with…
Spring REST Docs versus SpringFox Swagger for API documentation
Recently, I have come across some articles and mentions about Spring REST Docs, where it has been presented as a better alternative to traditional Swagger docs. Until now, I was…
Local Continuous Delivery Environment with Docker and Jenkins
In this article I'm going to show you how to set up a continuous delivery environment for building Docker images of our Java applications on the local machine. Our environment…
Testing microservices on OpenShift using Arquillian Cube
I had a touch with the Arquillian framework for the first time when I was building the automated end-to-end tests for JavaEE based applications. At that time testing applications deployed…
Quick guide to deploying Java apps on OpenShift
In this article, I'm going to show you how to deploy your Java applications on OpenShift (Minishift), and connect them with other services running there. We will also learn how…
Performance Testing with Gatling
How many of you have ever created automated performance tests before running an application on production? Usually, developers attach importance to the functional testing and try to provide at least…
Visualizing Jenkins Pipeline Results in Grafana
This time I describe a slightly lighter topic in comparison to some previous posts. Personally, I think Grafana is a very cool tool for visualizing any timeline data. As it…
Testing REST API with Hoverfly
Hoverfly is an open source API simulation tool for automated tests. It is written in Go, but also has native support for Java and can be run inside JUnit test.…
Custom metrics visualization with Grafana and InfluxDB
If you need a solution for querying and visualizing time series and metrics probably your first choice will be Grafana. Grafana is a visualization dashboard and it can collect data…