Today I want to thank the author of recoverjpg, Samuel Tardieu. This tool is proof that “do one thing, do it well” results in the most useful software. A family member brought an SD card back from a vacation trip abroad and the filesystem broke when she plugged the card into her Mac. Needless to […]
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Gradle plugin upgraded to OpenFastTrace 2.1.0
After releasing OpenFastTrace 2.1.0 it was high time to release the corresponding Gradle plugin in version 0.5.0. This is a drop-in update, just update the version number and benefit from the features and bugfixes of OFT 2.1.0. During the release process we also fixed the sonar analysis and some sonar warnings. We also used the […]
OpenFastTrace 2.1.0 released
After two bugfix releases a new feature release. On November 19th Christoph create the Release for OpenFastTrace 2.1.0. Feature-wise we are happy to announce an improved HTML report. Sonar checks are now up and running again and the last JavaDoc errors have been rooted out. We also fixed the deep coverage detection which was pointing […]
OpenFastTrace 2.0.0 released
This release is a big step forward. One new feature, a few small fixes and a lot of code improvements that gives us a much cleaner and more uniform API, better test coverage and lower overall complexity. But a new API also means we had to break backward compatibility to achieve something that the existing […]
OpenFastTrace Gradle plugin 0.4.0 released
Today we released version 0.4.0 of the OpenFastTrace Gradle plugin. This is the first version that can be considered production ready. It was successfully integrated into a real life commercial project using the following features: Software architecture design (Swad) imported as a dependency from a maven repository Software detailed design (Swdd) written in MarkDown Coverage […]
Speed up Writing OFT Specifications With WikiText Templates for Eclipse
Starting today we will provide a growing set of Eclipse templates to help speed-up writing OpenFastTrace specifications using the Eclipse IDE. Using these templates also has the nice side-effect of reducing the chance for errors when writing specifications. Find the templates here: https://github.com/itsallcode/openfasttrace-eclipse-templates
Version 1.1.0 released
Today Christoph and me released version 1.1.0 of OpenFastTrace. The most notable feature addition is that you now can opt to keep specification items without tags when configuring the tag filter.
Release letters – useful for users but a coupling nightmare for developers
Release letters are useful. No doubt about that. They are the go-to place for users who want to know what’s new in a software release. Granted that information is already available in your projects ticket system but you can’t expect your users to dig through tickets just to be up-to-date. So you duplicate information. Which […]
Publishing to Maven Central
We already publish openfasttrace to JCenter, see openfasttrace distribution. Using libraries from JCenter in a Gradle build only requires adding repositories { jcenter() } to your build.gradle. You can do the same with maven by adding the following to your pom.xml: <repositories> <repository> <id>central</id> <name>bintray</name> <url>http://jcenter.bintray.com</url> </repository> </repositories> But we […]
Named vs. Numeric Requirement IDs
With every new project there will be a discussion whether requirement IDs should have a unique name or simply a numbering scheme. If you look at OFT‘s specification document, you will see that we chose named IDs. The reason in our case is quite simple: we use the ID as reference in OFT’s native specification […]