Charalampos S. Arapidis - Sonar Code Quality Testing Essentials

Charalampos S. Arapidis is a Senior Software Engineer located at Athens, Greece. He specializes in J2EE enterprise application design and implementation. His other specialties include data-mining/visualization techniques and tuning continuous integrated environments.

From a very early age, Charalampos showed particular interest in advanced Mathematics and software development and has been honored twice at the Panhellenic Mathematical Contest for providing prototype and innovative solutions. He graduated in Computer and Software Engineering from the Polytechnic School of the Aristotle University.

After graduation, he dynamically entered the enterprise field, where he helped his organization make the transition from legacy client server ERP and CRM applications to full-stack J2EE web applications, all in a streamlined and integrated development environment.

The development of the Proteus Web Document Management System for the Greek Public Sector and his solutions to Kallikratisthe largest data integration project ever conceived in the latter years of Greece's public sectorare two of his most recognizable achievements nationwide.

Charalampos currently works at Siemens Enterprise Communications as a Senior Software Applications Engineer, designing and implementing Unified Communications software at multinational level.

When not working he enjoys blogging, playing the classical guitar, and composing music, exploring new ways to translate polynomial equations to sound.

I would like to thank and express my gratitude to Lefteris Ntouanoglou for providing me with guidance and vision in the IT field especially in the last two years, and Olivier Gaudin and Fabrice Bellingard for their interest in the book. From the Packt Publishing staff, I would like to thank, in particular, Newton Sequeira, Ashwin Shetty, Sai Gamare, and Usha Iyer for supporting and guiding me through the writing process, and all the technical reviewers for their helpful suggestions. Finally, I would like to thank Kostas Vasiliou, Christos Chrysos, Vassilis Arapidis, and Evangelia Vlachantoni for their support.

Christopher Bartling has been in the IT industry since 1995. He has served in the roles of application developer, mentor, and agile coach. He also has experience in biometrics, genomics and computational biology, healthcare, insurance, and legal/regulatory domains. He also helps develop and deliver training for DevJam (http://www.devjam.com). Prior to his career in IT, he was involved in electrophysiology and biomedical research at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota. You can find his blog at http://bartling.blogspot.com and tweets at @cbartling.

Efraim Kyriakidis is a skilled software engineer with over seven years of experience in developing and delivering software solutions for diverse customers. He's well versed in all stages of the software development lifecycle. His first acquaintance with computers and programming was a state-of-the-art Commodore 64, back in the '80s as a kid. Since then he has grown and received his Diploma in Electrotechnic Engineering from Aristotle University, Thessaloniki. Through his career, he mainly worked with Microsoft Technologies and has an interest in technologies such as Silverlight and Windows Phone. He currently works for Siemens AG in Germany as a Software Developer.

Kosmas Mackrogamvrakis was born in 1971 on the island of Crete in Greece. He moved at an early age to the capital of Greece, Athens. There he attended public school and graduated as an engineer in Automatic Electronics. Later, he continued his studies at the Technical School of Computers in Athens, but he was forced to interrupt, as he was obliged to join the army.

In the army he served as a Sergeant in the artillery section and trained in computer-guided canon targeting, based on his previous knowledge of computer technology.

Even before high school, he was highly interested in computer science, and he managed to learn Basic, Pascal, and Assembly language.

After his army obligations, he was employed by Athens News Agency, where he worked as a technician and desktop-publishing employee. There he was trained by Unibrain, in Ventura Publishing software, Photoshop, and Corel Draw. In parallel, he installed a Fax distribution network with Canada, for redistribution of a FAX newspaper.

After three years he moved to Hellenic Scientific S.A., as a technician. There he managed to get trained and show his natural talent in computer engineering. He was trained on the job and successfully undertook all the responsibilities of a Senior Systems Engineer after six years, and learned and used the following operating systems and software and services: Microsoft Windows 98/2000/XP/Vista, Microsoft Windows Server NT/2000/2003, Novel, Unix/Xenix, Mac OS/X, Linux, AIX, AS/400; Networks including WAN/LAN Protocols, TCP/IP, DNS, FTP, HTTP, IMAP/POP3, SMTP, VPN; E-mail systems Sendmail, Microsoft Exchange, Postfix, and clients such as Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, Kmail, and Evolution. He specialized in the hardware of IBM, HP, Dell, Fujitsu Servers, Desktops, and Notebooks.

He got certifications on Exchange Server from Microsoft, AIX from IBM, Tivoli IT Director from IBM, and AS/400 from IBM.

After seven years, and due to market needs and degradation of the company's share in the market, he moved to freelancing.

As a freelancer, he supported a large number of small-to medium-sized companies, as systems engineer, consultant, and technician.