by Kevin Weller | Mar 23, 2022 | Business, Featured, Latest
Introduction I’ve been a software developer and systems integrator since the ‘90s, and in that time I’ve seen both lasting trends and passing fads. Here I’ll mention some developments that are clearly established trends, followed by another that is very likely...
by Kevin Weller | Jan 17, 2022 | Latest
We’ve just published the latest addition to our automated testing suite on FME Hub: the DatasetValidator transformer. This little gem will compare two different sets of features, pairing them up by a specified key attribute, and issuing validation errors for any...
by Kevin Weller | Mar 30, 2021 | Featured, Latest
According to Wikipedia, “a domain-specific language (DSL) is a computer language specialized to a particular application domain.” As a DSL (among other things), FME is incredibly productive when it’s used to solve the key...
by Kevin Weller | Dec 10, 2020 | Latest
A 14-minute presentation I’ve recorded to summarize usage of my FME automated testing tools has been published to Safe Software’s FME World Tour 2020 web site. If you want to know the why’s and how’s of automatically testing your FME workflows,...
by Kevin Weller | Jan 16, 2020 | Latest
Automated testing is a best practice that can save you a lot of time and effort when applied to your FME workspaces and custom transformers. Co-published on Safe Software’s blog Have you ever found yourself in this kind of predicament? You’ve built and tested a...
by Kevin Weller | May 13, 2019 | Latest
Having come into GIS in 2006–and FME soon thereafter—with an extensive software engineering background, I have been sorely missing several varieties of tools that enable best practices to assure software quality. A regression test framework is one such...
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