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Read “Beyond Legacy Code”

I’ve read this book, but I haven’t remained it here. The books is https://pragprog.com/book/dblegacy/beyond-legacy-code . The book has Japanese edition. I god interested in this book when the Japanese one appeared in my Twitter’s TL. ( I haven’t bought Japanese edition though ) The book includes tips to evolve software products from small to large.…More

[Documentation] Learn Technical Writing – One

Google published a great course to learn technical writing for software engineers. https://developers.google.com/tech-writing/one I’ve felt it was different to write proper sentences in several situations when I wrote documentation like OSS world, thesis, articles and books. I would have liked to learn technical writing in English for software engineering world as my study Then, I…More

[iOS][Appium] A note about usbmuxd

Appium has been used libimobiledevice seriese, ios-deploy and ifuse to communicate with Apple devices. The CLI is very useful, but we’re switching it with appium-ios-device from next release, Appium 1.15.0. macOS has usbmuxd in /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MobileDevice.framework/Versions/A/Resources/usbmuxd to communicate with Apple devices. It is launched by /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ com.apple.usbmuxd.plist. As a readme on appium-ios-device, the library communicates with…More

[Appium][iOS]Visibility attribute and simpleIsVisibleCheck capability in Appium/XCUITest

Appium has a capability named simpleIsVisibleCheck which follows visibility by testmanagerd. The original PR is here. I have no exact idea we can recommend you to use the capability defaults to true, but I would leave a note about it here. Current Appium/WebDriverAgent has complicated process like this. The process after the simpleIsVisibleCheck is here.…More

[bash]pushd/podd, () in bash

Following commands are not only for bash, but you must ensure they can use your target system tho. pushdRemove the top entry from the directory stack, and cd to the new top directory. When no arguments are given, popd removes the top directory from the stack and performs a cd to the new top directory.…More

[Python]with statement

with statement is very helpful in Python code not to forget close in file, for example. We can define it following a rule as below. Nice. We can build our with to make some process safe. This is a note for me. https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#with-statement-context-managers https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0343/ http://effbot.org/zone/python-with-statement.htmMore

[Appium][iOS]Configure devices via configuration profile feature via Appium

Appium provides Over-the-Air Profile Delivery and Configuration feature to configure devices via configuration profile. Appium already provides to set it as a mobile command. It helps configure your test device with the profile without your hand work. http://appium.io/docs/en/commands/mobile-command/ http://appium.io/docs/en/writing-running-appium/ios/ios-xctest-install-certificate/index.html Recent documentation about it is: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicemanagement/using_configuration_profilesMore

[Appium]Dart client for Appium

Flutter is growing. The framework is written in Dart. In mobile native world, Swift/Kotlin/Objective-C/Java are normal way to implement applications. Cross platform framework environment such as JavaScript for ReactNative and C# for Xamarin, for example, also have market. Flutter has been growing as a brilliant UI framework across Android and iOS. AndroidX-compose and SwiftUI also…More

[Erlang][Elixir] Erlang & Elixir Fest 2019 in Japan

I attended https://elixirconf.connpass.com/event/129526/. That was very excited to hear in real world Elixir/Erlang stuff in Japan. The conf has various talks, but the most excited one for me was https://speakerdeck.com/elixirfest/otp-to-ejabberd-wohuo-yong-sita-nintendo-switch-tm-xiang-ke-hutusiyutong-zhi-sisutemu-npns-false-kai-fa-shi-li The talk was by Nintendo. They has been handling push notifications for Switch in Erlang. The protocol was XMPP x ejabberd based one. I experienced…More

[Appium][Azure]Build Appium Test Running environment on Azure Pipeline

Azure provide macOS instance for Android CI environment. On the instance, we can create x86 architecture Android emulator. The emulator is faster than arm’s one. Then, we can run tests which is necessary to launch emulator instances faster. On ruby_lib_core project, I built the environment for Android and iOS. The project already has over 50…More