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Galasa Blogs

Stay up-to-date with all things Galasa with blogs, podcasts and videos from fellow Galasians.

Galasa blogs that are hosted by the Open Mainframe Project are available on the Galasa page of the website.

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Galasa: What is Application Integration Testing?

Application integration allows software to be created as a unique and bespoke set of applications that knit together to form critical business processes. Application integration testing ensures that individual components interact with each other in a desirable way, and automation of this stage of testing is critical because there typically are so many configurations, routes, and scenarios to consider. Galasa could be your first step to understanding how to build test cases that cover multiple applications and can even be extended to cover proprietary applications with the use of Managers. Read the blog post by Louisa Seers to find out more.

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Author: Louisa Seers
Source: Open Mainframe Project

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Galasa: My First 6 Months as a TSC Chair

Read the blog post by Louisa Seers to find out about her experiences and thoughts during her first six months as Galasa IBM Product Manager and Chair of the Galasa Technical Steering Committee (TSC), and the Galasa journey to adoption by the Open Mainframe Project (OMP).

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Author: Louisa Seers
Source: Open Mainframe Project

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The Galasa command line tool

Learn about the software requirements you need to get started with the Galasa command line tool (galasactl)and find out how to download and install it on your local machine. Watch a demo that takes you through the process of creating, building and running Galasa tests, and viewing the output of those test runs.

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Author: Mike Cobbett
Source: YouTube

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The Galasa Configuration Property Store

Integration testing can be complicated. Tests often require configuration parameters to bind to a specific test environment. Galasa Managers require configuration so that systems under test can be contacted. This information needs to stored in a single, central repository that is shareable to the Galasa framework, Ecosystem, Managers and tests. Find out how Galasa solves these challenges by its use of the Configuration Property Store (CPS). Watch the video to understand the features of the Galasa CPS, and see a demonstration on manipulating the values in a CPS by using the Galasa command line (Galasa CLI). Use the information to help you to simplify your test configuration, set Ecosystem-wide configuration properties, and set parameters and credentials on the Ecosystem for tests to read and use at runtime.

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Author: Mike Cobbett, Savaas Kyriacou
Source: YouTube

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Galasa bringing automated test commodity to open source

No enterprise application exists as an island anymore. Find out how Galasa has modernized the test processes that validate the quality of applications with end-to end integration testing that integrates with other open-source tooling.

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Author: Will Yates
Source: Open Mainframe Project

Open Mainframe Project Welcomes Galasa into its Ecosystem

The Open Mainframe Project, an open-source initiative that enables collaboration across the mainframe community to develop shared tool sets and resources, today welcomed Galasa, a project that offers developers the ability to test applications at scale regardless of platform, into its ecosystem.

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Author: Maemalynn Meanor
Source: Open Mainframe Project

Integration testing for Hybrid Cloud Applications using Galasa

This paper explains how this testing can be achieved only in an effective and efficient way by autenable such automation. We specifically focus on Galasa. Galasa is an open-source deep integration test framework for hybrid cloud applications that allows teams to automate tests to run as part of a DevOps pipeline.

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Author: Michael Baylis and Others
Source: An IBM Redpaper publication