(image taken from Roney’s photostream) Jim Huang commented on the CruiseControl series page about an issue on his project: We integrate our build with automation deployment and test running. The problem we have is how to prevent people from clicking the force build button by mistake. Anyone clicking the button will lead to another QA [...]
Thursday, August 28, 2008
(image taken from slashcrisis’ photostream) Today I’m just going to share a pet hate: poor target names in build files. Yes, that’s scratching the surface: there’s plenty of other things to get wrong in your build. But today’s gripe is target names. Here’s an anonymised example from a real project: <?xml version=”1.0″ ?><project name=”project” default=”tests” [...]
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
(image taken from William Hook’s Photostream) There’s several things that are the root of all evil. Money, love of money, and mapped drives on Windows operating systems. This is especially true in a deployment context. Your deployment system should accept UNC paths for the servers it wants to know about. Using Windows is one thing. [...]
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Nat Pryce left a comment on my post A real BuildRefactoring, in the wild: IntelliJ can do some simple refactorings of Ant scripts: extractproperty, rename target, rename property, etc. But refactoring of Ant and Nant is very difficult because they have noconsistent syntax or semantics. They are just quick hacks that havegrown kludge by kludge [...]
(image taken from Laineys Photostream) We live in a world of patterns. Some very clever people have been identifying and naming patterns in software for a long time now. In build and deployment, we’re just beginning. Here’s five: Aslak Hellesøy kicks things off with Immediate Test Failure Notification. If you’ve ever had to sit through [...]
(image taken from Scoble’s Photostream) Microsoft are now offering a deployment tool to assist with the scary XCOPY-style deployments of .NET web applications. I’m old enough to have used XCOPY in DOS. It always seemed a little backwards to me: invest millions and millions in a language and platform to take on Java, and still [...]
Chad Wooley just announced “CI in a box” – a wrapper script that gets CruiseControl.rb bootstrapped and running. Cinabox joins a stable of ready-to-run CI systems: Buildix which comes with the original CruiseControlCI Factory which sets up CruiseControl.NET All split down the various Java, .NET and Ruby factions. I wonder if there’s a Hudson based [...]
(image taken from goldberg’s photostream) One of those key features of a version control system is being able to take a change that you submitted (maybe 5 minutes ago, maybe last week) and vaporize it. Like it never existed. Actually, doing that is hard, but you can apply a change that is the exact mirror [...]
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