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Monthly Archives: February 2011

Dependency Integration: Promiscuous vs. Reluctant

Monday, February 21, 2011

When you’re really doing Continuous Integration, what strategy should you choose for dealing with dependencies? Should you aggressively pull in changes to that library that the guys in the ivory tower make you use? Or should you wait until there’s a compelling need? Your hand may be forced by your tooling. If you’re checking in [...]

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Links for 2011-02-14

Monday, February 14, 2011

Here’s Monday’s links from My Twitter Stream. 10:13: Hudson, Jenkins, or something else? Vote in the Continuous Integration 2011 poll! | Java.net http://weblogs.java.net/blog/johnsmart/archive/2011/02/13/hudson-jenkins-or-something-else-vote-co

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Dan North on the evolution of Continuous Integration

Friday, February 11, 2011

Dan North: In the Old Days [...], the Integration in Continuous Integration just meant ensuring all your code modules worked together. Nowadays it means ensuring all the parts of your deployed stack play nice together, so regular rebuilds and information radiators are a great way to verify all the bits you don’t think about still [...]

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Silos, silos, everywhere

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Now these types of efforts [ ... ] are traditionally located in the marketing department. But in high tech, marketing is too ignorant to drive the bus. What appears to the generalist to be a a simple change may in fact cut across some fundamental technology boundary in a radically in-appropriate way. Or conversely, what [...]

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WebDriver: now at Sauce Labs

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

WebDriver now runs against Sauce Labs‘ testing service – using many different browsers.  And you can pay by the hour.  This is awesome: Selenium was a huge leap forward in web testing. Sauce Labs has been allowing people to run Selenium tests against any browser and operating systems. Selenium2 (WebDriver) is another great leap forward. [...]

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