Martin Pradny's blog

Last week I had a session at Sutol conference about automation for developers. It covered several samples, where I started with Reat.js front-end app, stored it in Domino nsf database and later did also complete build on Jenkins server with Selenium tests. It was a lot of fun to put this together and even more fun, as always, was to meet all those great people from ICS (or should I call it Watson Workplace now?) community. Sutol 2016 - Automation is developer's friend from mpradny Repository that I used for the demo is at Bitbucket.org -  https://bitbucket.org/pradnik/todoapp_full/branch/develop  . If you want to try it, you need to adjust some hardcoded values as I didn't make this build parameterized and it also depends on my Jenkins configuration. Job itself that I used was simple Pipeline from SCM, just with repo address. Let me know if you want to try it and get stuck. Many thanks to all sponsors,  organizers and attendees, who made SUTOL 2016 grea...

Last month I had opportunity to speak at ICS.UG user group together with Martin Jinoch. It was great event as I mentioned in previous post. Our slides are available on ICS.UG session list, but I also want to publish demo video and GIT repository that I used for the demo. I wanted to do some cleanup first, but as time didn't permit me to do so, I publish it just as it was for the conference. It really just a proof-of-concept that put together pieces that I would use separately otherwise. Slides: Video: I had to move mymouse all the time to get correct recording, so please ignore it. It's no voodoo.  Repository: https://bitbucket.org/pradnik/ics.ug-demo  Next plans are to all of this on current project that also involves Open NTF Domino API and XPages Scaffolding, which probably will make some parts more complicated.   

This topic will lead to a series of articles. It depends how deep I will get, but I will try to stay as much general as possible and avoid solutions that work just in my current case. It's all inspired by nice hack that Maks Zhuk showed in his blogpost http://mzhuk.blogspot.com/2014/02/unit-tests-for-lotus-domino-applications.html . Since I want to automate everything, I'll take it step further with Gradle. XPages run on top of a OSGi runtime and so they use system of features and plugins. This can lead to some dependency troubles when you just want to do plain Java work. Christian Guedemann showed how to make this work nicely with Maven http://guedebyte.wordpress.com/2014/04/07/automated-build-with-jenkins-some-progress/ . Sadly Gradle can't read p2 update sites, which can Maven do using Tycho plugin. Even when you try to Mavenize it in some standard way like using eclipse:to-maven, I couldn't use it afterwards since some plugins contain jars as libs in them (pro...

Few people told me that all this automated building is definitely nice, but they don't get why they should bother. I decided to record my test Jenkins machine, so it might show them what is this all good for - it's doing work for them (so you can show this to your boss and tell him/her you will be more efficient if you use such tools). Anyway, this video just runs project from previous post using Jenkins. At first I committed my code with an error that is later detected using Selenium test (it returns 300 instead of 200) Then I fixed it (using notepad) and committed again   I did few cuts in the video, because often not much happens. I hope this will bring more XPages projects to Jenkins or any other CI tool. final note - I really haven't touched that machine. No keyboard shortcuts :)