Yes, we Kanban

The Kanban method has become a key part of eDreams ODIGEO because of its evolutionary change approach. Kanban manages change by following these three principles: “Start with what you do now”, “Agree to pursue improvement through evolutionary change” and “Encourage acts of leadership at every level”. In this article I’ll introduce how we are doing this at eDreams ODIGEO.

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Selenium +Cucumber += Automated Front Tests

Who put that Selenium in my Cucumber? (Or how to test the Front-end)

Tests are key to deliver good quality to the customer, which of course is one of our main focuses. But testing this by hand usually takes too much time, time in which the customer is not benefiting from your feature. In this article we explain how we automated most of our tests of the Front-end with the help of Selenium, Cucumber and NodeJS among other technologies, which gave us the ability to speed up a lot the number of releases and time to market.

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Releasing TableViewKit 1.0

We are excited to release TableViewKit 1.0 – an open source framework which is a core part of our apps: eDreams, Opodo, GO Voyages (and soon Travellink). The framework allowed the eDreams ODIGEO iOS mobile team to set up a complex layout easily, while improving the modularity of our codebase. History TableViewKit was developed to

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Release: Decisions, Decisions

Concepts like continuous delivery, time to market or innovation are very important at eDreams ODIGEO (eDO). Working on a product like ours makes us focus on the customer. This means that we want to bring the features to them as soon as we can. The present article covers how we manage each release in the front end team and the challenges we face to take decisions around it.

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Notes on jBCNConf by Toni Tassani

The Barcelona Java User Group (JUG) is a very active community and we are lucky to have among us one of their founders (David Villacampa) and one their core members and organizers (Adela Tort). The jBCNConf (http://www.jbcnconf.com/2016/) is the conference organized by the Barcelona JUG and this year was held on 16th to 18th of

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