The Eclipse Testing Day Team (with kind help from Imbus AG) spent last week looking over and evaluating the submissions for the Eclipse Testing Day, and we’re pleased to announce that we now have an exciting and varied program for the day on the 8th September.

The full program is available on the Eclipse Testing Day Wiki Page, and we’re pleased to be able to offer a selection of talks about different areas of testing, including:

• Acceptance and GUI testing
• Embedded testing in OSGi
• Scope and coverage of tests
• Unit testing
• Test generation

As mentioned in the previous post, registration is now open on the Eventbrite Site. Member tickets (Eclipse and OSGi members) are priced at 40€ net, non-members at 50€ net. The ticket cost covers the event organization and includes catering during the day and the evening reception.

We’re looking forward to a successful day – start inviting colleagues, contact us if you’d like the logo and we’ll see you on the 8th September in Darmstadt!

The registration for the Eclipse Testing Day on the 8th September in Darmstadt is now open!

We’ve created an Eventbrite site to ease the registration process. Details of prices and payment are both on the Eclipse wiki and directly on the Eventbrite site, but just get in touch if you have questions.

We’ve also extended the call for papers for another week – you have until the 10th July to submit your abstract (again, details on the Eclipse wiki). Any Eclipse and/or testing enthusiasts are invited to tell us about how they test, and of course, to register for the day. Tickets are limited to 80 participants, so we recommend registering early!

I think we can say that the Eclipse Demo Camp in Hannover was a resounding success. The cooperation between Brox, Bredex and Hannover IT (with the kind support of the Eclipse Foundation of course) worked really well – we had over 70 participants who saw four demos about various topics in the world of Eclipse.

The first half of the evening saw Brox’s demonstration of SMILA followed by a demonstration of testing Eclipse applications with GUIdancer by Bredex. After a short break the camp continued with the two final demos: Erhard Weinell of Yatta Solutions showing their UML Lab and Sven Efftinge demonstrating XText. If there is a prize for how many Eclipse Award winners are present at a Demo Camp, then this one is a good contender: Both XText and GUIdancer were winners of awards this year.

After the demos there was enough time for chatting, discussions and introductions – Ralph Müller from Eclipse and Michaela Kraft from Microsoft were both on hand to provide excellent networking opportunities.

With even more new faces at this demo camp than the previous one in November, our hope of creating a strong Eclipse community in the Hannover/Braunschweig region seems to be becoming reality. Stay tuned for more Eclipse events!

The slides from the demo camp are available on the Eclipse Wiki.

Over the next few months, BREDEX is working with two companies (and the Eclipse Foundation!) to organize two Eclipse events:

Eclipse Demo Camp
On the 21st June, we’ll be organizing an Eclipse Demo Camp in Hannover with Brox IT Solutions GmbH. We already have three confirmed demos and are waiting on another two, so we’re looking forward to another successful camp. The Eventbrite page is up and running for you to register, and details about the Demo Camp are on the Eclipse Wiki.

Eclipse Testing Day
On September 8th, we’ll be in Darmstadt with MicroDoc GmbH for the Eclipse Testing Day. The call for papers is now open, and we look forward to hearing your suggestions for talks about testing Eclipse as a platform, testing OSGi applications and testing tools based on Eclipse. We’re also still looking for sponsors – more details are on the wiki page.

These two events should be a great chance to meet people from the Braunschweig and Hannover region, as well as test enthusiasts within the Eclipse Community – so get registering, submit a talk and come and meet us at one (or both) of the events!

We’ve got a couple of BREDEX/Eclipse events coming up in the next few weeks.

Braunschweig Eclipse Stammtisch
First of all, we’ll be having the first Eclipse “Stammtisch” of the year on the 24th February here at BREDEX.  Ralph Müller will be there and we’ll be hearing from Markus Tiede about a “normal day working with Eclipse” before we go round the corner to “Mephisto” for some food and drink. If you’re interested in coming, or if you want to speak at an upcoming Stammtisch, take a look at the BREDEX website for more details.

CeBIT
The second piece of news is that BREDEX is going to CeBIT! We’re teaming up with other members of the Eclipse Foundation to showcase Eclipse technologies and solutions.  Drop by the Eclipse Island, in the Open Source Park, Hall 2, booth numbers 151-154, to meet representatives from EclipseSource, Actuate, SOPERA, BREDEX and the Eclipse Foundation.  Visit the demo theater and see Eclipse products and projects, including GUIdancer, Yoxos, RAP, BIRT and Swordfish.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

On Wednesday 25^th November, Braunschweig had its first Eclipse Demo Camp. We organized the camp jointly with brox IT Solution GmbH and, of course, with the help of the Eclipse Foundation, who also kindly sent us Ralph Müller to talk to us about the Eclipse Ecosystem.

The location in the Stadthalle was perfect: enough space for the 48 participants with room at the back for drinks and snacks in the break.

Networking in the break

We were treated to five demos over the course of the evening, starting with Ralph’s contribution – complete with mandatory audience participation! He was followed by Sebastian Voigt from brox, giving a demo of SMILA and Eccenca. Just before the break, we presented our role play of an agile development team working with GUIdancer.

Benjamin Muskalla, who had joined us all the way from Karlsruhe in an elaborate demo-swap between EclipseSource and Bredex (Markus Tiede will be heading to the Karlsruhe demo camp on December 3rd), welcomed us back from the break with his demo of the Eclipse  Memory Analyzer and RAP. We even saw some spontaneous community spirit when Frank Fauth from IT-Region 38 lent Benny a power cable for his slowly dying computer. The final demo of the evening was from Prof. Dr. Kreyssig from Ostfalia, who showed us how he uses Eclipse to program embedded systems. The demo culminated with the words “Eclipse Demo Camp” being shown on an LED display.

Eclipse Demo Camp

After the camp we were grateful for Ralph’s invitation to have a drink in a local restaurant and for the chance to get to know some of the participants a little better.

I think that the success of this demo camp shows us that we have the makings of a strong Eclipse community here in the Niedersachsen area. I hope that you all enjoyed it as much as we at Bredex did, and I look forward to seeing you at the next Stammtisch or Demo Camp!

Slides for all the demos are available on the Bredex website.