Features

Economic Simulation and Point-and-Click Adventure Game • Nature, Jungle and Garden Setting • Semi Realistic Comic Style • Social Integration (Facebook & Twitter) • High Scores • Achievements • Browser Game seamlessly integrated into Websites • Freemium Pricing Strategy • Virtual Currency • Shop • Own Game Engine

Technologies

Team

Development: myself + 3 developers
Graphics: 3 artists

Background

The Playotope GmbH game studio created this game for Greenpeace Argentina. I worked for Playotope GmbH as a freelancing developer.

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Features

Easy to use Game Editor • Platform Game (aka Jump ’n’ Run) • Different Settings: Pirates, Politics, X-Mas • Comic Style • Social Integration (Facebook & Twitter) • High Scores • Browser Game seamlessly integrated into Websites • Own Social Cosmos: Share Games, Comment on Games or Users, etc. • Own Game Engine

Technologies

Team

Development: myself + 1 developers
Graphics: 1 artists

Background

This was the first Game of the Startup game studio Playotope GmbH. I worked for Playotope GmbH as a freelancing developer.

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Overview

As a lead developer I coordinated the technical development of a stand alone testing software. It is especially useful for the automotive industry. The tool itself is primary glue code for many third party libraries, which was developed in an enterprise environment.

Due to an NDA I can’t tell too much about it, but you can visit the official product page for further details.

Features

Intuitive User Interface • Model Based • Systematic Test Case Specification • Systematic Test Case Generation • Automated Test Case Execution • Test Objectives • Linking with DOORS (specification tool) • Find Test Coverage Gaps • Search Function • etc.

Technologies & Methodologies

• Project Management: Jira • Confluence
• Languages: UML • Java • XML • XSD • CSS • Scripting Languages
• Models and Methodologies: Statecharts
• Libraries & Frameworks: Eclipse RCP • EMF • OSGI • GMF • Many Third Party Libraries
• Automated Builds: PDE, Ant, Custom Scripts
• Automated Testing: JUnit, QF-Test
• Continious Integration: Jenkins, SVN
• IDE: Eclipse

Team & other Stakeholders

• Product Owner: corperate colleague located in another city
• Technical Lead: myself
• Development & Deployment: myself + 6 developers in 2 cities
• Testing: 3 Testers in 3 cities and 2 countries
• Marketing: 2 corperate colleagues located in another city
• Third party software developers: 5 organizaton with differently close contact
• Customer: 1 Customer with direct influence on the product features.

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Idea

Testing Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) is done very differently in commercial and academic environments. In commercial environments GUIs are tested with the simple and convenient Capture and Replay method. Academically developed GUI test methods use powerful but inconvenient model based approaches on the other hand.

My approach combines both methods to a convenient but powerful GUI testing method. The basic idea is the following:

1. The user executes example sequences on a GUI
2. A Model of the GUI is Generated
3. Test Sequences on the Model are Automatically generated
4. The Test Sequences are automatically executed on the GUI

The GUI Models stay compact and clear because they use hierarchies and orthogonality.

A systematic combinatorial approach generates the Test Sequences. This keeps the sequences complete but lean.

Features

Convenient but Powerful GUI-Testing • Capture-&-Replay Approach • Model Based • Systematic Test Sequence Generation • Automatic Model Generation • User Friendly GUI Models • Complete but Compact Test-Sequences • Test Arbitrary GUIs

Prototype

As part of my final thesis I also developed a prototype. The prototype is a Plugin for the commercial testing tool TESTONA. You can see it in action here:

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Technologies & Methodologies

Context

This was a self organized project as an employee in the Berner & Mattner enterprise.

To realize this project I worked together with many other teams. I modified and integrated parts of their work into my GUI Testing Tool.

Details

I released a scientific paper   as part of this project. I also released the final thesis  and the final presentation  (in german).

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Background

The Playotope GmbH game studio created this game for Generali insurance company. I worked for Playotope GmbH as a freelancing developer. This game was a stripped down version with changed graphics of the more complex game Chaos Cats.

Features

Side-Scrolling Game • Super Hero Setting • Comic Style • Social Integration (Facebook & Twitter) • High Scores • Browser Game seamlessly integrated into Websites • Own Game Engine

Technologies

• Languages: UML • Java (Backend) • html5 (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) • ActionScript
• Libraries & Frameworks: Facebook • Twitter • Flash • Own Game Engine • Google App Engine
• Automated Testing: Custom Test Framework
• Version Control: SVN
• IDE: Eclipse • Flash

Team

Development: myself + 1 developer
Graphics: 2 artists

Details

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Features

Side-Scrolling Shooter Game • Cats vs. Dogs Setting • Comic Style • Social Integration (Facebook & Twitter) • High Scores • Browser Game seamlessly integrated into Websites • Freemium Pricing Strategy • Virtual Currency • Shop • Own Game Engine

Technologies

• Languages: UML • Java (Backend) • html5 (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) • ActionScript
• Libraries & Frameworks: Facebook • Twitter • Google Analytics • Flash • Own Game Engine • Google App Engine
• Automated Testing: Custom Test Framework
• Version Control: SVN
• IDE: Eclipse • Flash

Team

Development: myself + 1 developer
Graphics: 2 artists

Background

This was Playotope GmbH game studio’s second game. I worked for Playotope GmbH as a freelancing developer. I also worked on their first project before.

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Context

Blubber was developed on Paypals Battle Hack within 24 hours with the following restrictions:

• Use Paypal: The Paypal API had to be used by the final Software.
• Hack for Good: The app should improve the world or humanity somehow
• Local Range: The app had to be useful in a local area, i.e. your city or district.

Our team consisted of three professional developers.

Idea & Features

The motivation, idea and features of Blubber where presented in a 2-minute-presentation on the BattleHack:

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Technologies

• Languages: html5 (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) • Java • Python
• Libraries & Frameworks: PayPal API • jQuery • bootstrap • Underscore • Java Servlets • Google App Engine • jQuery.qrcode
• Automated Builds: Maven • Gradle
• Automated Testing: JUnit • mockito
• Version Control: GitHub
• IDEs: Eclipse, NetBeans, IntelliJ IDEA
• Other: QR Codes • Raspberry Pi • USB Monitor

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Context

This project was aborted due to a lack of time and obsolete technologies. Originally it was planned as an improved clone of the game minecraft. We used it as a case study for experimenting. Our experiments included:

• High-Performance Game Development in Java
• 3D Game Development with jMonkeyEngine and Nifty GUI
• Entity System Framework (aka Components Based Game Engine)
• Runtime Level Changes

Technologies

• Language: Java
• Libraries & Frameworks: jMonkeyEngine • Artemis • Nifty GUI • JSci
• Version Control: SVN • Google Code • GitHub
• Platform: Google App Engine
• IDE: Eclipse

Team

Me and my room mate, who also is a professional software developers with different background.

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