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Test organization and naming

As our system grows, so will our test suites. For our production code, we have learned techniques to keep it maintainable. For example, we try to structure our logic into sub-aspects, put them in specific locations and give the units meaningful names. We want to achieve the same for our tests. One of the main goals is that a developer - or generally speaking, the person who has to maintain the test - knows where to find which test. We also want to understand as quickly as possible what the test is for and what might be the reason for a failing test.

What’s in a name: Legacy

The term “legacy” has a negative connotation in IT, and stands for an old, somehow bad piece of software. In real-life, legacy has a completely different and often positive meaning.

Test Strategy

Decentralized Architecture: What’s Behind Blockchains?

Fueled by ever new highs in cryptocurrency prices, there is currently a lively debate about blockchains. Some praise the “self-sustaining” currencies as saviors in times of crisis, while others see their excessive power consumption as a climate killer.

What’s in a Name: Quality

We use the word quality colloquially for something “good” – but we usually leave open what exactly we mean by it. This article illustrates that we should be a little more precise in this regard.

Migrating the iSAQB® Mock Examination to AsciiDoc

Collaborative Learning with Mobshops

After a year with COVID-19 and plenty of online activities, I think we are tired with workshops that copy the offline world into an online setting. More interactive formats are needed. In this blog post, I briefly describe my learnings with a new format I’ve developed and piloted in practice: Mobshops.

The (new) Software Architecture Foundation curriculum

Want to learn Software Architecture? Look no further – the recently released iSAQB Foundation Curriculum covers all your needs!

iSAQB Advanced Level examination anti-patterns

These simple mistakes will drive your examiners crazy

Just Add Code
(Part 2)

The last post in this series established that Web Components are a good way to ship markup and logic to a browser in order to provide progressive enhancement. In this part I will show, how Githubs Catalyst library supports us to develop such Web Components.

Is Domain-driven Design overrated?

Domain-driven design (DDD) is a useful approach that provides excellent guidelines for modeling and building systems, but it is a means to an end, not an end in itself. While the concepts are valid, you lose a lot if you limit yourself to using them only: There actually is a life beyond DDD.

What tracks do we leave behind with technology?

How monsters can teach us about responsibility: INNOQ Digital Art Edition 02

Just add Code (Part 1)

Running code on a browser using Web Components is a good method that allows you to have a defined scope for your markup and logic. However, the usual examples mostly lead to the user staring at an empty page in the case where JavaScript isn’t enabled, because in most cases all markup is generated by JavaScript only.

Turning a group of strangers into a team

A testimonial how five foreigners became a team via Remote Mob Programming in less than a day.

Defect Analysis using pandas

Using standard Data Science tools from Python to track bugfixing activities

Progressive Enhancement with Hotwire

A REST-based backend with a JavaScript monolith on top – that’s todays de-facto standard for web applications. With Hotwire you can build much more lightweight web applications, that both inherit the advantages of SPAs and avoid their disadvantages. In this blog post we’ll give an overview of Hotwire.

Remote Mob Programming at INNOQ

At INNOQ, some teams successfully use the methodology Remote Mob Programming in customer projects, some of them even for more than two years. We asked four teams what their experiences with this particular method are and have been.

Tina Schönborn

Vera Peuntinger

Daniel Westheide

Franziska Dessart

Dr. Simon Harrer

Deploying a WebAssembly smart contract on Oasis Ethereum

Innovation in the web without sacrificing accessibility

We’ve truly stretched the boundaries of what is possible on the web. However, to do this we’ve sacrificed semantic HTML and made our applications inaccessible to a huge amount of different users. Instead of breaking the foundation of the web, we should consider this as an opportunity: how can we implement applications in a way that works for any user who might come along and want to interact with it?

Pragmatic RESTful HAL APIs

The Hypertext Application Language (abbr. HAL) is a media type extension to plain JSON/XML – with its introduction in 2012 – no longer a newcomer and used already in many projects with Hypermedia APIs. A good time then to say a few words of praise, also to show obstacles and what solutions we found in daily work with HAL APIs - for implementing clients as well as for the server side.

Tests Granularity

Good arguments for SPA frameworks

I love SPAs when they are used with a clear purpose. I hate them when they are not. This blog post tries to explain my personal conflict.

Anatomy of a Good Test

In our last post, we focused on why we should write tests and what value they provide. This time we will go far more technical and take a look at a single test. We will show what makes a test a good one and describe desired and unwanted properties. Interestingly enough, all those properties hold, no matter how isolated or integrated the test is. This already gives us a hint that all tests are alike, we should remember that. Unfortunately, as the topic is very broad, we will have to skip some aspects that play a role when we’re talking about test suites. We will get back to them in one of our next posts.

Developers are Irresponsible and Childish!

About Respect and Trust

Why you should write automated tests

This blog post gives an overview of the most common benefits gained by writing automated tests. It starts in a place where most of the projects we’ve seen so far are: tests are written as a last step of the development process. Then it shows additional benefits that could be gained if we all gave the tests a bit more focus and care.