As a recent addition to the Zivtech team who doesn’t come from a technical background, I’ve been exposed to a lot of new technologies and terminologies. When our CEO assigned the task of getting a WPEngine site to work with Probo, I knew it would be a challenging learning experience....
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We often talk about Probo in regards to Drupal development because we do a lot of Drupal work at Zivtech. We originally built Probo to eliminate bottlenecks in our development workflow on our Drupal projects, but it can also be used to test any PHP and MySQL based application like...
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Thanks to contributor Michael Bagnall, also known as ElusiveMind on GitHub, our Probo Docs now include a section on setting up the Probo Open Source project! The new Open Source Quickstart has a step by step guide on getting your very own Probo App server running using the open source...
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At this year’s BADCamp I did a session with Thom Toogood, a Lead Drupal Developer at Deloitte Digital Australia, on Shift Left Testing and Continuous Collaboration. Shift left testing is the process of moving the testing phase left of its usual position in the delivery pipeline so that it occurs...
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Acquia BLT is an open source project that aims to provide pre-configured tools and tests for Drupal 8 projects, and it now has built-in support for Probo.CI. Out of the box Probo will: Install a fresh copy of your BLT site. Validate syntax for your composer files, yaml configuration, and...
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From July 31st to August 2nd is the third annual Drupal GovCon, an awesome conference focusing on Drupal and Open Source Software in the government (mostly the U.S. Federal Government). This completely free event is being held on the gorgeous and expansive campus of the National Institute of Health in...
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It’s been about two years since we created Probo’s initial UI designs. The UI and UX have served us well so far, but it’s time for change! The user experience for the app was originally developed mostly through intuition, like most brand new projects. We started off looking at other...
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We are excited to announce a couple new features for Probo customers this week: we now have 3 versions of our standard image to support various versions of PHP without having to run updates during the build process, and we now support .htaccess controls, to prevent unwanted viewing of your...
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We’ve been adding new recipes to the Probo Documentation, and I wanted to share two that really speak to Probo’s mission to enable Continuous Collaboration in software development projects: utilizing Backtrac.io for visual regression tests, and posting the Probo environment/sandbox and Backtrac.io test URLs into Jira. These are admittedly “hacky”...
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We are excited to announce a few more environment variables available for you to use in Probo! There were several available before, and we’ve expanded that list to include: $BRANCH_NAME - The name of the branch the build is based on. $BRANCH_LINK - An HTML link to the branch (in...
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