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“Hello Cloud”

Setting up your Telegram channel with Camunda Cloud  If you’re a runner, then you know it’s important to change your running shoes from time to time. I’ve run many miles with the Camunda Platform. I’ve used it for my own projects, for tutorials, and taught people how to use it in workshops. Now, it’s time to put on some new shoes: it’s time to automate a process with Camunda Cloud. If you’ve also been using Camunda Platform and are interested in what it looks like to move to Camunda Cloud, come for a run with me. In the continuing pandemic situation, I need to stay informed, and know as soon as the situation relaxes. I find myself checking the Corona…

By Nele Uhlemann

Feb 2, 2021

Testing DMN Tables Automatically

One key feature of DMN tables is that they enable business people to provide Business Rules in an intuitive way – like creating an Excel sheet. As a developer you get the DMNs and you integrate them into the BPMN-Process. But how can you make sure that DMN works as expected? With this in mind I started the DMN Table Tester Project with these main goals: Interested? Then let me show you how it works with this simple DMN: Configure your Test The Tester provides a simple User Interface that lets you define a DMN Test in no time. Here is an example: Run the Test This shows you that the DMN is correct: Each Test Case is one row,…

By Pascal Mengelt

How can you Teach a Workflow to Execute a specific task?

If you read the first article in this series, I might have been able to convince you about executable processes? In this blog, the second in the series, I would like to go a step further and show you, with Restzeebe, how concrete tasks within processes are executed by a workflow engine. All my examples use Camunda Cloud. I don’t know of any other solution that executes workflows models in BPMN in the cloud. But now to the real thing. How can you teach a workflow to execute a specific task? I don’t want to go into too much detail, but with Camunda Cloud it works like this: Zeebe, the underlying engine, uses a PubSub system for workers. A worker is essentially the software that executes…

By Adam Urban

Jan 21, 2021

Welcome to the Camunda Community Summit 2021

Camunda has always been focused on creating an excellent experience for developers everywhere who are trying to automate processes. From our days as a small process automation consulting firm to the powerful products used by hundreds around the globe, our engineering mindset and commitment to our community has always been at the heart of what we do.  Out of this commitment to our community comes our first Camunda Community Summit — coming live to your laptop on April 27-28, 2021. This inaugural summit builds upon our first Community Unconference last October. The feedback we received was tremendous and people have been asking for another event like it ever since. This virtual conference, created by developers for developers, offers peer-to-peer engagement…

By Mary Thengvall

chor-js – an Editor for BPMN Choreography Diagrams

Let’s say you are craving your favorite pizza from that pizza place a ten-minute walk away. You call them up, place your order, and are then asked whether you would like to have the pizza delivered or pick it up yourself. In your mind, you think about how convenient it would be to have a delivery driver knock on your door and hand you the pizza within half an hour or so, but then again it is only a short walk, and some fresh air would really do you good… Putting somewhat existential questions aside, what we just described is a prime example for a so-called choreography in Business Process Management. Different participants (you, the pizza place and the delivery…

By Jan Ladleif, Anton von Weltzien

Announcing Camunda for Common Good

Helping NGOs and Non-Profits around the world reach even more individuals Mission-driven organizations are often short-staffed, insufficiently funded, and underestimated. Our new program, Camunda for Common Good, offers an opportunity to give back to organizations that are making a tangible difference in the lives of people around the world. There’s a need for process automation and making operations more efficient no matter what industry you’re in and no matter who you’re serving, but the potential for NGOs and non-profit organizations, in particular, to vastly increase their impact on the world through automation, is compelling. With the launch of Camunda for Common Good, we’re bringing our powerful process automation platform, combined with our expert knowledge, to support qualified NGOs and non-profit…

By Mary Thengvall

Test Your Processes With JUnit 5

If you’re a fan of JUnit5 for testing on the JVM, we have good news — there’s a brand-new library available: camunda-bpm-junit5, published as a community extension for Camunda BPM. The project is now available on Maven central, so you can start testing your processes with the latest technology. Getting started To add the extension to your project, just add the Maven dependency to your pom file: <dependency> <groupId>org.camunda.bpm.extension</groupId> <artifactId>camunda-bpm-junit5</artifactId> <version>1.0.0</version> <scope>test</scope> </dependency> Add the dependencies to JUnit 5 if you don’t already have them (they are included in the spring-boot-starter-test artifact): <dependency> <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId> <artifactId>junit-jupiter</artifactId> <version>5.6.2</version> <scope>test</scope> </dependency> To start testing you can extend your test class with the ProcessEngineExtension: This injects the ProcessEngine configured in the camunda.cfg.xml file into…

By Ingo Richtsmeier

Dec 30, 2020

Camunda Community Review 2020

Camunda, both as a company and a platform, is lucky to have strong involvement every step of the way from a thriving community. While a lot has happened this year, I felt it’s good to highlight what the community has achieved in three simple categories. Code, Community and Comrades.  Code: lots of people write code that embedded and extended Camunda projects like the Engine and our Modeler. A special group of people then go the extra mile to make it available to the rest of the community and support it as it’s used. Community: There can be an innate feeling of community that can’t exist without individuals working to make an engaging, inclusive environment for its current and future members,…

By Niall Deehan

Dec 22, 2020

Measure Your Coverage

Let’s continue with our blog series “Treat your processes like code – test them!” Today we will take a closer look at a frequently discussed topic: Test coverage. But what role does coverage play in testing BPMN models and how can coverage be measured? In this post we will address the following questions: For this purpose, we are going to extend the example from our previous posts. You can find it in our GitHub repository. If you haven’t read them already, check out the other posts in this series: Why is test coverage an important metric for developing automated processes? The short answer is: From a technical perspective, BPMN is a programming language, so it should be treated as one….

By Dominik Horn

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