FOSDEM 2018

Last modified by Vincent Massol on 2019/06/11 10:11

Feb 05 2018

Once more I was happy to go to FOSDEM. This year XWiki SAS, the company I work for, had 12 employees going there and we had about 8 talks accepted + we had a stand for the XWiki open source project that we shared with our friends @ Tiki and Foswiki.

Here were the highlights for me:

  • I talked about what's next on Java testing and covered test coverage, backward compatibility enforcement, mutation testing and environment testing. My experience on the last two types of tests are directly issued from my participation the STAMP research project where we develop and use tools to amplify existing tests.
  • I did another talk about "Addressing the Long Tail of (web) applications", explaining how an advanced structured wiki such as XWiki can be used to quickly create ad-hoc application in wiki pages.
  • Since we had a stand shared between 3 wiki communities (Tiki, Foswiki and XWiki), I was also interested in comparing our features, and how our communities work.
    • I met the nice folks of Tiki at their TikiHouse and had long discussions about how similar and differently we do things. Maybe the topic for a future blog post? emoticon_smile
    • Then I had Michael Daum do a demo to me of the nice features of Foswiki. I was quite impressed and found a lot of similarities in features. 
    • Funnily our 3 wiki solutions are written in 3 different technologies: Tiki in PHP, Foswiki in Perl and XWiki in Java. Nice diversity!
  • I met a lot of people of course (Fosdem is really THE place to be to meet people from the FOSS communities) but I'd like to thank especially Damien Duportal who took the time to sit with me and go over several questions I had about Jenkins pipelines and Docker. I'll most likely blog about some of those solutions in the near future.

All in all, an excellent FOSDEM again, with lots of talks and waffles emoticon_wink

Tags: Testing STAMP
Created by Vincent Massol on 2018/02/05 11:50