E2E (end-to-end) testing focuses on what matters most at the end of the day: making sure that users will be able to achieve their goals within the application. This post is a step-by-step tutorial to show you how to leverage Cypress and jump right into the action. It’ll help you get comfortable with setting up […]
February 1, 2022
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Testing & Quality
Developing and Testing Spring Boot Apps with Azure Storage locally
Azure Storage is the Microsoft equivalent of Amazon’s S3 (Simple Storage Service). Its blob storage stores any type of text or binary data, such as a document, media file, or application installer. Microsoft provides a great client library for Spring Boot applications to access Azure Storage. All you need to do is to add the […]
January 30, 2022
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Strategy & Transformation
The role of a business analyst in a software development project (and if you really need one)
Having been a business analyst (BA) in software development projects for four years, I’ve come across many stereotypes built around this craft. Some people take you for a scribe that generates documentation. Few others understand your role as a translator between the business and the tech people. While both those images are partially true, the […]
January 27, 2022
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Strategy & Transformation
Digital maturity of companies
Progress in stages, but it’s happening! The business-critical importance of digitalization and all related measures in companies has become clear, especially in the last two years. Companies that pushed ahead with their digital resilience in terms of business continuity and business models at an early stage were able to go through the past months […]
January 25, 2022
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Strategy & Transformation
Digital & Technology Trends 2022
Many people – corporate decision-makers in particular – hope that this 2022 moves forward under the “back to normal” banner. Rising vaccination rates, some professionalization in the personal and societal handling of the new situation of a long-lasting COVID-19 pandemic, and digital technologies allow this hope to seem quite realistic. In the meantime, it is […]
January 24, 2022
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Testing & Quality
How End-to-End Testing finally makes fun
In this blog entry, I will show you why I finally fell in love with end-to-end testing of web application how Cypress achieved exactly that and how to setup e2e testing with Cypress a link to my sample code at Github, combining Cypress and Typescript some more information about Continuous Integration Background I am a […]
January 9, 2022
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Backend & Architecture
Thank you, Open-Source Software!
In mid December, an inconspicuous software package has suddenly been the talk of the town. If a Java logging framework even makes it onto the cover pages of the mainstream media, then something big must have happened. It did. The Log4Shell bug is indeed an extremely serious security vulnerability that affects countless software systems worldwide, […]
December 22, 2021
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Data & Platforms
Is Germany standing in its own way when it comes to the cloud?
Obstacles on the way to cloud use and how to overcome them – in a nutshell: The mainly American services create the impression that there are not enough alternative cloud providers that are compatible with the German guidelines. However, a sober reflection of the now quite broad and continually developing range of services shows that […]
December 10, 2021
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Commerce & Customer Experience
A sudden rise in shopping cart abandonment? How to identify a leak in your eCommerce funnel
Their cart is full. They’re happy. They’re ready to checkout and place the order. And then they’re gone. This scenario provides sleepless nights to many eCommerce owners and managers. While a high cart abandonment rate is one of the most frustrating statistics, it’s also a very common issue across all industries. According to research from […]