From the monthly archives:

May 2009

Video Interview: Code Coverage with Atlassian Clover

May 28, 2009

How do you measure the success of your TDD efforts?
Evaluating the quality of a codebase can be difficult. A tasteful amount of emphasis on code coverage is a useful indicator though. Too little and it’s too late to turn the oil tanker around. Too much and your developers focus on writing tests that provide [...]

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Sweet iPhone Continuous Integration App

May 14, 2009
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Douglas and John from Higher Order Bit have written an iPhone app that tells you what your Continuous Integration server is doing.
That isn’t so unusual, I wrote about one some time ago. But rather than just focus on one CI server, they’ve done the legwork to support four different servers, and they plan to keep [...]

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Stack Overflow days look promising

May 13, 2009

We all lose when we are corralled into vendor or technology specific segments. Spolsky and Atwood are doing a conference to bring together developers who just want to be good. Not Java developers, not .NET developers, just developers.
Remember Byte? Every issue covered a wide range of topics and technologies. Sadly, Byte disappeared, to be [...]

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Guest Post: Test First in Operations

May 7, 2009
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Today’s post is by Matthias Marschall of the fantastic Agile Web Operations blog. Matthias is the CTO of Autoplenum, when he’s not blogging.
Monitoring a server is very similar to continuously building and testing code.

In development, you write tested code, commit it to version control and the CI server tries to build and deploy [...]

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VIDEO: Big Visible Build Status at YouDevise

May 1, 2009

I had pizza with the guys at YouDevise on Tuesday. It’s always a pleasure; they are constantly inspecting and adapting what they do. The team had a talk about acceptance testing and CI, and I was privileged enough to join in.
They wrote their own build status visualizer and have been using it for quite some [...]

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