Manage your GitLab pipelines like a pro with R2Devops
Writing and managing CI/CD pipelines shouldn’t be complicated and reserved to automation experts. But how do you lower the gap and enforce best practices?
Run GitLab pipelines on Windows Server
Most of today’s automation is done on Linux systems but you may still have some code in Production that can only run on Windows. So how do you automate its lifecycle with a tool like GitLab?
In this article, we’ll use some .NET Framework 4.x code and a Windows Virtual Machine (VM) to demonstrate how we can create a pipeline in GitLab to achieve Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery!
Mock REST API calls with Mockoon
Did you ever wish you could mock REST API calls? This post will quickly introduce Mockoon, a free open source solution, to maybe help others in the righteous path of software design and test automation! Have you already been blocked in your test automation by HTTP calls? Are you interested in developing a frontend application even if the backend is not available? This is a limitation I often come across but I never found the right way to do it,…
Update a Library variable from a pipeline in Azure DevOps
If you’re using Azure DevOps for your automation, you may use Variable Groups to manage your configuration in a centralized and secure way. Reading a variable from a pipeline is easy but updating its value can quickly be messy and complicated… Hopefully, there are easy ways to update a variable value and they will be described in this post! Context First of all, let’s be clear on one thing: you cannot update the value of a variable with a simple…