Continuous Integration, Pipelines and Deployment

Published August 4th, 2010 Under Configuration Management, Continuous Integration | Leave a Comment

When Continuous Integration grows within organizations, Build Pipelines can help to manage the workflow to get software through the different checkpoints to get applications to production. This process can further evolve into Continuous Deployment. A side effect of this, is that the management of the CI infrastructure also requires an increased involvement of sysadmins and operations.

Video Producer: Devops Days

Related Resources:
* Continuous Integration: the Cornerstone of a Great Shop
* Continuous integration tools directory

Application Versioning in GlassFish 3.1

Published July 15th, 2010 Under Configuration Management | Leave a Comment

This video demonstrates the deployment of multiple version of the same application in GlassFish 3.1 Milestone 1.

Digg Technical Talks – Kohsuke Kawaguchi

Published June 29th, 2010 Under Configuration Management, Continuous Integration, Functional Testing | Leave a Comment

The creator of Hudson, Kohsuke Kawaguchi, speaks to Digg engineering team about the current state of Hudson and what we can look forward to down the road. His comments about Selenium and Hudson are of particular interest to the QA team. There are all kinds of integration possibilities – from custom reports that include embedded Sauce Labs video results to automatically establishing connections between our environments, there are lots of ways to make tests run more often and more quickly through Hudson.

Related Resources
* Hudson Home Page
* Hudson – Your Escape from “Integration Hell”
* Continuous integration tools directory

Continuous Integration

Published June 22nd, 2010 Under Configuration Management, Continuous Integration | Leave a Comment

At the last Agile Firestarter conference, Erik Stepp presents an introduction to Continuous Integration. Which would you prefer each morning when you get into the office; having to fix compilation error, failed unit tests, etc., or get right down to coding and provide value to the business? Having a Continuous Integration (CI) process setup in your development environment can mean huge gain in productivity. In this session, we explore the benefits of CI and why every development team should have one.

Resources:
* Continuous Integration: The Cornerstone of a Great Shop
* Continuous Integration Feature Matrix
* Continuous Integration Tools Directory

Talk Release Management With Artifactory

Published June 10th, 2010 Under Configuration Management, Continuous Integration | Leave a Comment

In this presentation the Artifactory team demonstrates the benefits of managing your software development life-cycle through continuous integration. Frederic Simon and Yoav Landman show how to automate large-scale multi-module projects using a fully-integrated platform with Artifactory and Hudson. Using Maven, Gradle, or Ivy builds, it is now possible to dynamically automate and manage the pyramidal stacks of Unit, Functional, and Integration Tests. This demo-based session will show you how Artifactory and Hudson work together to make it much easier to promote certified builds to milestone releases, and finally to general availability, while making sure all builds are fully reproducible.

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How Mozilla uses Selenium

Published June 8th, 2010 Under Configuration Management, Continuous Integration, Functional Testing | Leave a Comment

Continuous Integration is a software development practice where members of a team integrate their work frequently. Each integration is verified by an automated build to find problems as quickly as possible. Many teams discover that this approach leads to significantly reduced integration problems and allows a team to develop cohesive software more rapidly. In our talk, we’ll show how our team uses open-source tools, particularly Selenium Grid and Hudson, to test the web applications we make. Raymond Etornam will cover how we moved from testing them using basic Selenium IDE in Selenese/PHP to a more structured system, where our tests are run using Hudson and Selenium Grid, in Python. Stephen Donner will co-lead, providing more of the historical background.

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Industrial Strength Groovy

Published May 25th, 2010 Under Configuration Management | Leave a Comment

Paul King presents some of the tools helping one programming in Groovy: Cobertura – code coverage, CodeNarc – code style, EasyB – acceptance tests, GroovyDoc – documentation, GroovyMock/Spock – mocking and testing, Hudson – CI builds, Maven/Ant/Gant/Gradle – build files, OSGi – bundles, and Spring/Guice – dependency injection.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Industrial-Strength-Groovy

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