Category: System Designs
Continuous Integration – Move fast and don’t break things
Continuous Integration is an increasingly popular topic in modern software development. Across many industries the companies acknowledging the importance of IT and delivering value to their customers through great software prevail against their competitors. Many reports indicate that Continuous Integration is one of the major contributing factors to developing high quality software with remarkable efficiency.…
DevOps, Interactive Media, Mobile Apps, Scalable Systems, Student Projects, System Designs, System EngineeringContinuous Integration & Deployment for a Cross-Platform Application – Part 1
When we started the project “Flora CI” for the lecture “System Engineering”, we planned to deal with Continuous Integration. As an important aspect of software engineering all of us have previously been involved in projects where code of developers had to be merged and builds had to be automated somehow. Anyway we felt we could…
Take Me Home – Project Overview
Related articles: ►CI/CD infrastructure: Choosing and setting up a server with Jenkins as Docker image ►Dockerizing Android SDK and Emulator for testing ►Automated Unit- and GUI-Testing for Android in Jenkins ►Testing a MongoDB with NodeJS, Mocha and Mongoose During the winter term 2017/2018, we created an app called Take Me Home. The purpose of the app is…
Android SDK and emulator in Docker for testing
Related articles: ►Take Me Home – Project Overview ►CI/CD infrastructure: Choosing and setting up a server with Jenkins as Docker image ►Automated Unit- and GUI-Testing for Android in Jenkins ►Testing a MongoDB with NodeJS, Mocha and Mongoose During our Android development project, we had to cope with several technological and organizational challenges with regard to construct…
Automated Unit- and GUI-Testing for Android in Jenkins
Related articles: ►Take Me Home – Project Overview ►CI/CD infrastructure: Choosing and setting up a server with Jenkins as Docker image ►Android SDK and emulator in Docker for testing ►Testing a MongoDB with NodeJS, Mocha and Mongoose In this article we would like to describe, how to write unit- and gui-tests for an Android-Application in Android Studio…
CI/CD infrastructure: Choosing and setting up a server with Jenkins as Docker image
Related articles: ►Take Me Home – Project Overview ►Android SDK and emulator in Docker for testing ►Automated Unit- and GUI-Testing for Android in Jenkins ►Testing a MongoDB with NodeJS, Mocha and Mongoose This article will run you through the motivation for a continuous integration and delivery, choosing a corresponding tool and a server to run it…
Testing a MongoDB with NodeJS, Mocha and Mongoose
Related articles: ►Take Me Home – Project Overview ►CI/CD infrastructure: Choosing and setting up a server with Jenkins as Docker image ►Android SDK and emulator in Docker for testing ►Automated Unit- and GUI-Testing for Android in Jenkins Setting up the testing environment and workflow Setup: Jenkins CI Docker Container MongoDB Docker Container Production-MongoDB on mlab.com NodeJS Web-Application,…
Security in a SaaS startup and today’s security issues with DevOps
Motivation Facing security in a company nowadays is a big job: it starts with a backup strategy ensuring the business continuation, plans for recovery after major breakdowns, ensuring physical security (entrance control, lock-pads, safes), screening of potential employees, monitoring servers, applications and workstations, training the employees in security issues and policies and does not even…
Vulnerable Vehicles – Connected cars and their security issues
In times of the continuing Internet-of-things- and connectivity-hype, a connected variant of “the German’s favourite toy” cannot be absent. Modern cars, SUVs and lightweight trucks come with all kinds of connected features, from smartphone interface integration up to social media in the navigation system. But what about the security of these features? Is there a…
Usable Security – Users are not your enemy
Introduction Often overlooked, usability turned out to be one of the most important aspects of security. Usable systems enable users to accomplish their goals with increased productivity, less errors and security incidents. And It stills seems to be the exception rather than the rule. When it comes to software, many people believe there is an…
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