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Cucumber & Playwright – a good match... Or rather competition? Part I

BDD with Cucumber and automation with Playwright - how well do they fit together in software testing? Part one of our blog series gives answers!...

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Get up, speak up! How to become a conference speaker

Let Sophie tell you about her experiences and tips from her journey - from conference participant to keynote speaker.

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Analyzing Business Reports with ChatGPT – Part I

AI language models open up new avenues for automated text analysis. Our example: a prototype for robust extraction of data from annual reports.

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Elevate your Regex: Named Capturing Groups in Java's JDK 20 API

In JDK 20 a few new methods were introduced, aimed at facilitating the use of named capturing groups.

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Validation File Assertions: Simplifying complex integration tests

Integration tests serve the purpose of testing the interaction of multiple software components that depend on each other. Validation files simplify this process.

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Test fixtures: Managing dependencies in Gradle

Native Gradle support for test fixtures solves a problem of dependencies in multiple sub-projects.

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How to start with Augmented Reality

Thanks to Unity support of augmented reality, physics and multiplatform build, you can build your first AR app in no time

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Robots are a girl’s best friend – Girls’Day 2022 at cronn

On Girls’Day 2022, 9 girls accepted cronn’s invitation to program robots with us. Read about a fun and challenging day that transcended gender clichés.

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Career change towards software development: From texting to testing.

Ruth has mastered her career change into software testing at cronn - and here she reports how.

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Frozen Yogurt. An UX-ident as a use case.

Our author Fabien uses a not so successful UI to show what is important in good UX.

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Tunneling Basics – Part II: OpenSSH Configuration Files

How to use the SSH configuration file to set up a port forwarding even with multiple jump hosts.

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YOLO: You only live look once

How my GPU detects my enemies.

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The hassle of transitive dependencies across sub-projects in Gradle

Managing dependencies across sub-projects in Gradle can be tricky. Here you will learn about one of the gotchas.

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cronn reaches 100

Strong growth again last year.

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BDD & Cucumber

Behavior Driven Development and Cucumber fit perfectly together. We explain why.

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iOS UIKit to SwiftUI Migration — Part III

This is the third and last part of our step-by-step guide on how to migrate an existing iOS app from UIKit to SwiftUI.

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iOS UIKit to SwiftUI Migration — Part II

This is part two of a step-by-step guide on how to migrate an existing iOS app from UIKit to SwiftUI.

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Running cronners

If stereotypes are to be believed, software developers are grumpy people who sit indoors all day and write code, oblivious to the outside world. However,...

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iOS UIKit to SwiftUI Migration — Part I

This is a first post in a series that offers a step-by-step guide on how to migrate an iOS app from UIKit to SwiftUI.

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Tunneling with SSH: The Basics

Port forwarding with SSH is a very powerful tool. Every software developer and DevOps engineer should know its basics.

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cronn is now an authorised consulting firm in the BMWi support program “go-digital”

The support program of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy (BMWi) thus offers many SMEs the opportunity to modernize their business processes.

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Cucumber with JUnit 5

Thanks to Gradle integrating Cucumber with JUnit 5 is easy.

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In This Together

It's been three weeks since cronn went into lockdown. Still, we don't lose sight of each other.

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No? No worries! The cronn blog is available in multiple languages

Starting today you can read our first blog posts in German, English and Polish.

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A „phantastic“ conclusion to 2019 - Our Christmas Party

At the end of November we celebrated with more than 100 cronnern the biggest Christmas party to date at the amusement park Phantasialand.

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