Testing REST APIs with REST Assured

Posted by Heiko Rupp on

Note: This is an updated version of a post I wrote for my private blog years ago.

While working on the REST API of RHQ a long time ago, I had started writing some integration tests against it. Doing this via pure HTTP calls is very tedious and brittle. So, I was looking for a testing framework to help me and found one that I used for some time. I tried to enhance it a bit to better suit my needs but didn’t really get it to work.

I started searching again and this time found REST Assured, which is almost perfect as it provides a high-level fluent Java API to write tests. REST Assured can be used with the classic test runners like JUnit or TestNG.

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EDI Transformations with Fuse Integration Services (FIS)

Posted by Simon Green on

EDI, or Electronic Data Interchange, has always been a challenging domain to support for organizations. As EDI standards cover a large range of industries, from supply chain to medical to financial services (FSI), the standards rapidly evolve and change over time, thus requiring constant maintenance. The sheer cost of maintaining standards is high, not only for organizations but also for EDI software vendors who struggle to keep up. The expensive fees paid to standards organizations and rapidly evolving releases are the main reasons there are no decent open source EDI tools in the community.

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The Dark Side: How Hackers are Manipulating Our World

Posted by Samantha Donaldson on

To the average web developer, a hacker may seem simply like a nuisance, easily avoidable with the implementation of security standards and encryption methods. However, to many Americans nationwide, hackers are often defined as “super geniuses” which can “crack” into anything and terrorize our world. The main reason for this somewhat misguided interpretation of the hacking community is the fact that the media typically portrays these individuals as coffee-guzzling, cigarette-smoking rebels dressed in black, hiding in shadows, and wreaking havoc using techniques that are not only visually absurd but also completely inaccurate — think the new Fast and The Furious movie or the 1985 film Weird Science.

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Testing your Android App’s UI with Espresso

Posted by Abishek V Ashok on

Android is one of the most used mobile operating systems in the market with an estimated market share of approximately 84.82%. Millions of apps loom in the Android OS, for various tasks and it’s a shame that only a small percentage of the apps have a well-developed user interface (UI), which is flexible and adaptable to various mobile sizes. For an average user, they want their apps to look good and do well. However, if you are an app developer there will be a monstrous problem for you, Android is open source and it comes in all sorts of mobile phones with all sorts of screen sizes. Android developers have taught of this problem and have introduced a new automated testing framework to test the UI of your app called Espresso.

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Upgrading to Vaadin Framework 8 (Part 2 of 2)

Posted by amahdy on

In the previous part of this blog, I talked about the most important steps to get your project to compile with the latest Framework version.

The migration has been done through the first three steps mentioned here, and in this post, I will go over the least complicated steps of migration. Steps 4 and 5 cover the modernization of your project with the latest Framework 8 features. If you are in a hurry, you can do this later on as well, and use the new APIs only for new Vaadin code.

  1. Upgrade dependencies in the POM file
  2. Run Maven goal vaadin:upgrade8
  3. Upgrade Add-ons
  4. Upgrade non-data components
  5. Upgrade data components
  6. Back to the future

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How to debug your mobile hybrid app on iOS

Posted by Mikel Sanchez on

Following the blog post series, today, finally we have Part 2, this chapter tries to explain in an easy way how to debug your hybrid app using the Safari web inspector.

As you know sometimes debugging a mobile app on a mobile device can be hard work, for Android and Web pages we have the Chrome Developer tools, this has been an extended way to do it, Part 3 of the blog post series will cover this method, for iOS we have something similar, called the Safari web inspector.

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