How to develop a Nightly Builder

Question

Hello, I was told to create a tool like a Nightly Builder for a JUnit project. It's a client-server project with oracle database.The tests are based on QTP. Also there is a test interface written on C#. The tester can click on the interface to choose which tests to run and get a report from each test. So I have to make this procedure automated. So what tools should I use? Thanks in advance Best regards

Answer 1

You should use Quartz. In the quart scheduling xml file you can specify it to build your project. In your project you should have junit test cases execute whenever a build happens. This way you can achieve a daily build process. If your project already utilizes Spring framework then you can use the spring job scheduler helper library too (it's a wrapper around quartz).

Ideally you should use hudson to manage the daily builds but I am not sure if your organization utilizes it or not.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Have you considered using CruiseControl or like tool? We use this at my work and it was easy to get up and running with Junit and/or TestNG. Other tools to consider are buildbot, continuum, hudson, etc. (Go to google and type "cruisecontrol vs" and see a bunch of other auto builder tools.) Then see how they handle nightly builds.... here's a reference for CruiseControl.