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Monthly Archives: May 2009

Video Interview: Code Coverage with Atlassian Clover

Thursday, 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

Thursday, May 14, 2009

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 [...]

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Stack Overflow days look promising

Wednesday, 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

Thursday, May 7, 2009

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

Friday, 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 [...]

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