I'm currently working on an application with a frontend written in Adobe Flex 3. I'm aware of FlexUnit but what I'd really like is a unit test runner for Ant/NAnt and a runner that integrates with the Flex Builder IDE (AKA Eclipse). Does one exist? Also, are there any other resources on how to do Flex development "the right way" beside...
I think most people here understand the importance of fully automated builds. The problem is one of our project is now using an integrated Visual Studio Setup project (vdproj) and has recently been ported to Visual Studio 2008. Unfortunatly, those won't build in MSBuild and calling devenv.exe /build on 2008 just crashes, apparently it do...
I've found many sources that talk about the automated Eclipse PDE process. I feel these sources don't do a good job explaining what's going on. I can create the deployable package, in a semi-manual process via the Feature Export. The automated process requires knowledge of how the org.eclipse.pde.build scripts work. I have gotten a...
Our automated build machine needs to archive the version numbers of the OS plus various tools used during each build. (In case we ever need to replicate exactly the same build later on, perhaps when the machine is long dead.) I see the command "msinfo32.exe" can be used to dump a whole load of system version information, which we might...
I currently use nant, ccnet (cruise control), svn, mbunit. I use msbuild to do my sln build just because it was simpler to shell out. Are there any merits to switching my whole build script to MSBuild? I need to be able to run tests, watir style tests, xcopy deploy. Is this easier? Update: Any compelling features that would cause me t...
Or, actually establishing a build process when there isn't much of one in place to begin with. Currently, that's pretty much the situation my group faces. We do web-app development primarily (but no desktop development at this time). Software deployments are ugly and unwieldy even with our modest apps, and we've had far too many issue...
As part of our databuild run a 3rd party program (3D Studio Max) to export a number of assets. Unfortunately if a user is not currently logged in, or the machine is locked, then Max does not run correctly. This can be solved for freshly booted machines by using a method such as TweakUI for automatic login. However when a user connects v...
How do you turn a Visual Studio build that you'd perform in the IDE into a script that you can run from the command line? Update: To those also looking for the answer to this question, please check the Related box to the right as several similar questions have been asked. ...
Does anyone have a good way to build MSI (vdproj) projects using MsBuild or Nant? I know one answer was to install Visual Studio on the build server and just use devenv.exe to build the project, but, I prefer not to install Visual Studio on our build servers. ...
I have ci, so our staging environment builds itself. Should I have a script that not only builds production but does all the branching for it as well? When you have 1 code base on 2 different urls with skinning, should they be required to build at once? ...
In my work I deal mostly with C# code nowadays, with a sprinkle of java from time to time. What I absolutely love about Eclipse (and I know people using it daily love it even more) is a sophisticated code formatter, able to mould code into any coding standard one might imagine. Is there such a tool for C#? Visual Studio code formatting (...
I use TFS 2008. We run unit tests as part of our continuous integration build and integration tests nightly. What other types of testing do you automate and include in your build process? what technologies do you use to do so? I'm thinking about smoke tests, performance tests, load tests but don't know how realistic it is to integr...
I currently use subversion for my version control via AhnkSVN and Visual Studio. I recently started using Tree Surgeon to set up my projects. It creates a build script automatically using NAnt. I would like to be able to automate builds regularly projects within SVN. I like the idea of doing a build on every check in but nightly buil...
Does anyone use Phing to deploy PHP applications, and if so how do you use it? We currently have a hand-written "setup" script that we run whenever we deploy a new instance of our project. We just checkout from SVN and run it. It sets some basic configuration variables, installs or reloads the database, and generates a v-host for the sit...
I like the status email sent by TFS's alerts mechanism when a build breaks. However I would like to send such an email to the entire team and not rely on the team to subscribe to the alert... Having a hard time producing a nice and detailed enough message by myself when overriding the "OnBuildBreak" and using the MSBuildCommunityTasks E...
I am the build manager on a large legacy Java project. It currently uses a combination of ant and nested shell scripts to do building, testing, and packaging. It is fragile and complex and old. We'd like to replace it with a fresh set of scripts and are considering alternatives to ant. Maven 2 sounds interesting. We like the dependency...
I try to externalize all strings (and other constants) used in any application I write, for many reasons that are probably second-nature to most stack-overflowers, but one thing I would like to have is the ability to automate spell checking of any user-visible strings. This poses a couple problems: Not all strings are user-visible, an...
We have a build box that uses CruiseControl.Net and has been building VB.Net and C# projects using msbuild. All I have installed on the box as far as .Net is concerned is .Net 2.0 SDK (I'm trying to keep the box as clean as possible). We are now trying to get a C++ app building on this box. The problem we are running into is that the ...
I have a Team Foundation Server 2008 Installation and a separate machine with the Team Build service. I can create team builds and trigger them manually in Visual Studio or via the command line (where they complete successfully). However check ins to the source tree do not cause a build to trigger despite the option to build every check...
I have just set up cruise control.net on our build server, and I am unable to find a setting to tell it to only build one project at a time. Any ideas? ...