Sometimes I collect material for a blog post in a file but then forget to publish it. Thankfully WordPress lets you backdate posts.

I found three old blog posts that I wrote for the static blog which I never published. Since they fit nicely with the topics here I published them under the date when I originally wrote them.

While we already published releases on JCenter, we are now in the process of getting OpenFastTrace published on Maven Central. The goal is of course to make using OFT as convenient as possible for everyone.

I am happy to see that the people from Maven Central take security seriously and do not just let anyone publish modules under any package name. They asked us to prove that we own the domain “itsallcode.org”, so that gave me the necessary kick in the butt to speed up my plan to set up a web presence for OFT outside of Github on our domain. This blog is the first part.

Today we released OpenFastTrace 1.0.0 Or criteria for this major release were Importers for Markdown, ReqM2, Tag format and Legacy-Tag format Exporter for ReqM2 Full featured plain text report Basic tag filter and artifact type filter User guide Contribution guideline Time to celebrate!

Not much time today, so just a list of “features” I’ve discovered on my shiny new Samsung M2825 printer.

Good software tries not to surprise the user. Today I was surprised that four of the integration tests in OpenFastTrace (OFT) failed, although I did not touch the code.

The failure reason given was a character encoding problem. Since I was quite sure that the problem did not occur last time I ran the test and I did not touch the code since, I knew the reason was not in our code.