Plastic SCM January releases: Plastic 8 is out!

Thursday, January 31, 2019 Jordi Mon Companys news 0 Comments

Wait... What? Is that Octocat?

Is Plastic SCM version 8 a new GitHub product? No!! This is our small homage to our dear colleagues at GitHub.

Plastic SCM version 8 is out and we wanted to play around with Octocat and our own Owl mascot. We have named it circumstantially and just for today, Octowl.

We've been busy lately and despite the holidays season taking away half of our team during the first week of January, we have been able to release some goodies and fix some buggies ;-) You can always refer to our publicly available Release Notes section in our site.

In this post, you find a briefly narrated, clear explanation of what has been released during this month.

Jordi Mon Companys

I'm a Product Marketer that dwell with designers and coders throwing market insight, biased opinions and funny comments at product development.
I have marketed many kinds of software products and services but I really feel more comfortable talking about Developer Tools and LangTech products.
You can reach me at es.linkedin.com/in/jordimoncompanys.

GuiTestSharp: Multiplatform GUI Testing with dotnet

Wednesday, January 30, 2019 Sergio L. best practices 0 Comments

We are happy to announce the release of GuiTestSharp, an open source GUI-test framework used to automate the testing of desktop apps written in C# on Windows, Linux and macOS.

As far as we know, it might be the first cross-platform GUI testing framework for .NET/Mono/Xamarin.

You can see it in action here:

And grab the source code now from its GitHub repository

We've been using this framework internally for years with success to test our Windows Forms, GtkSharp, Xamarin.Mac and WPF applications.

The framework itself is quite thin, and you simply have to fill a number of "test interfaces" to actually make your app testable.

This blogpost and the GitHub repository are the starting points to show you how to best use it and start GUI testing your C# applications.

We'd really like to find other teams who find it as useful as we do!

Sergio Luis

After an intense internship at Codice during spring and part of summer 2015, I joined the ranks of Plastic SCM as junior developer.
I already contributed code to the Plastic REST API, the HAL Slack bot that controls our CI system, migrated our internal main server to "new" hardware, coded an Android repo browser and hacked wifi-direct for the upcoming Plastic version.
You can reach me at @_sluis_.

Fully automated Plastic SCM setup on a Raspberry Pi

Tuesday, January 22, 2019 Sergio L. 0 Comments

Today, I bring to you a blogpost that is long overdue. If you are a DIY enthusiast like me, you probably have a bunch of Raspberry Pi's lying around. Who knows, maybe Santa (or the Three Wise Men, or your local traditional gifter) brought you one these past holidays. If you want to put one to good use, and you already have your very own CandyVault up and running, maybe this software-only project is a good one to take over the next weekend!

By the end of this post, we will have a Plastic SCM server and client installed on our Raspberry Pi, we will have automatic upgrades, cloud-based repository backups, and the cool thing is, we will get notified on our smartphone every time one of these events occur through IFTTT)!

Sergio Luis

After an intense internship at Codice during spring and part of summer 2015, I joined the ranks of Plastic SCM as junior developer.
I already contributed code to the Plastic REST API, the HAL Slack bot that controls our CI system, migrated our internal main server to "new" hardware, coded an Android repo browser and hacked wifi-direct for the upcoming Plastic version.
You can reach me at @_sluis_.