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Coding mostly makes fun but sometimes is also frustrating. These blog articles discuss problems and potential problem we came across during our work. Hopefully they can be helpful not only for us but also other developers out there. To find out more about us and our work, please also visitJune 2, 2025 • Git
Automate the Annoying: Issue numbers in git commits
You can find the tool developed in this post here. In one project we use BDD style tests with cucumber to test our software. For regulatory reasons, we track all tests in Azure DevOps.
(Ab)using the example from https://cucumber.io, our setup looks a bit like this:
Feature: Withdrawing cash @tc:1001 Scenario: Successful withdrawal within balance Given Alice has 234.56 in their account When Alice tries to withdraw 200.00 Then the withdrawal is successful @tc:1002 Scenario: Declined withdrawal in excess of balance Given Hamza has 198.76 in their account When Hamza tries to withdraw 200.00 Then the withdrawal is declinedEvery test has a tag that references the work item on Azure DevOps. To enable easier tracing, we mention all test scenarios we touch in the commit message:
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February 7, 2025 • Rust
Stream video with frame-level metadata via WebRTC using GStreamer
Introduction One of our customers was facing the challenge of streaming out live image data to client applications connected over a network. As a core requirement, frame-level meta data had to be included in the stream (i.e., meta data and the video frame have to be in sync all the time) while the stream should be available in a standard format such that different clients (browser-based, stand-alone applications) can play the video and read the meta data. We did not want to invent our own protocol but use existing protocols/frameworks as much as possible.
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May 30, 2024 • Git
Git as Quality Management Tool
Introduction Since 2021, our company has introduced a certified quality management system (QMS). QM systems help to secure the future of a company by continuously evaluating the context of the organization and acting accordingly to improve its own standing within this context.
When we started installing the QMS in our company, we were consulted by the QAS Company who helped us to get familiar with QM and introduce a certified QM system within our company. During the discussions with the experts of QAS it was soon found, that getting a QM certificate is one thing, but ideally QM should really be lived by the employees as well. Having a dead folder of handbooks, templates, proofs, etc. in order to “survive” the yearly audit should not be the goal of this whole exercise.
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