Tableau is Pretty Neat

I often do analysis of logs.  I have used many different tools, from a simple ad-hoc command-line analysis using sed and grep, over a more detailed analysis using Excel, and all the way to setting up dedicated reporting tools like Jasper Reports or Grafana. Sometimes, I just need to quickly inspect a simple log, but […]

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Resetting amAdmin password in OpenAM

So, somebody ((Very different from myself, naturally)) forgot the administrator password to an OpenAM installation, and I needed to reset it. This is not a supported operation, and in the interest of being positive, let’s just say it was a journey with opportunities to make it work… First, this procedure works with a single OpenAM […]

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Automatic Deployment of Spring Boot 2.0 Applications to Kubernetes using Maven, Fabric8 and GitLab CI

If that title doesn't give you like 2 or 3 lines in bullshit bingo, nothing except a meeting with a Scrum coach can help you there.  It's accurate, though.  It's a thing that should be extremely simple, yet either my Google-Fu is too weak or nobody else on the entirety of the internet and by […]

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Vaporware Focus: Tool-support for Model-based Testing

I motivated the need for a user-friendly tool supporting model-based testing in practice in a previous post. The gist is that industry best-practice relies on logical test-cases rather than testing everything, and that is bad for software quality. The reason, I theorize, is that model-based testing is still a bit too academic, and requires a […]

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Model-based Testing

I’m working on a project where testing is important. We had a predecessor project with the same customer, and testing was also considered important at that time. During the previous project, I had problems communicating with the test coordinator; for one thing, we put importance on wildly different things. In the current project, we have […]

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