My SWTBot UI tests recently started failing on GitHub Actions macOS runners. The application under test is an Eclipse-based application, so at first I expected the failure to be caused by some SWTBot timing issue, focus issue, or maybe a regression in my own code. However, the screenshot captured by the failed test showed something […]
UPDATES: 19 February 2023: exclude ansible-lint problems on tests/test.yml 27 April 2023: updated the molecule docker plugin Last year, I got familiar with Ansible, the automation platform I now use to install and configure my Linux installations. I must thank Jeff Geerling and his excellent book “Ansible for DevOps“, which I highly recommend! I have […]
I recently started to port all my Java projects from Travis CI to GitHub Actions, since Travis CI changed its pricing model. (I’ll soon update also my book on TDD and Build Automation under that respect.) I’ve always used caching mechanisms during the builds in Travis CI, to speed up the builds: caching Maven dependencies, […]