Using Postman to Test API Calls
Postman is an API platform for building and using APIs, and is an extremely useful tool for testing any call that your SCADA system uses, including any API’s you’ve created in your SCADA system.
DevOps
DevOps: Continuous Deployment Using Git, Jenkins, and WinCC OA
In the IT world, you would NEVER, EVER, EVER make edits to a production system without going through the proper development quality assurance procedures. In the industrial world for some reason, it is acceptable to not test in isolated development environments for issues or changes in a production runtime system. There are many reasons for this…time, availability of tools, “know-how” etc. With the IT and OT worlds converging at an exponential pace, we want to help our industry adopt DevOps practices by showing the tools that are available now. DevOps tools can be leveraged in modern industrial data management software packages like WinCC Open Architecture.
DevOps: Integrating Jenkins into WinCC OA
Over the past few weeks, we have been showing how to use the DevOps practices and tools inside of WinCC OA. Today we will take one big step further and integrate Jenkins into the development process. This tutorial expects you tot have a few things and understand a few others:
What is DevOps?
As the role of DevOps becomes more and more prevalent in the world of automation and industrial SCADA/MES/IIoT software, one of the first steps that should be taken into consideration is setting up different levels of environments for your developers to utilize.
DevOps: Working with Separate Environments to Minimize Downtime
As the role of DevOps becomes more and more prevalent in the world of automation and industrial SCADA/MES/IIoT software, one of the first steps that should be taken into consideration is setting up different levels of environments for your developers to utilize.
DevOps: High-Speed Programming Unit Tests
WinCC Open Architecture (OA) has supported Unit Tests for quite a while now, however, when Siemens released version 3.16, one of the new features was High-Speed Programming. This new feature set included a tool for project documentation and the ability to auto-generate templates for faster creation of code. In this blog, we are going to look deeper at the new way to run and write Unit Tests inside of the graphical editor (GEDI).
Is TDD the Future of SCADA/MES Development?
As SCADA, MES and HMI projects become larger, more complicated, and interact with many different systems, the time has come to start thinking about adopting TDD and Unit Tests into your development lifecycle.
DevOps: 6 Steps to Integrate Git into WinCC OA
Inside of WinCC OA version 3.17, Git will be natively supported, however, with a little bit of work, you can leverage it with version release 3.16. In this post, I will go through the required steps to add Git to your project along with a panel that will be needed to finish the integration.