And what is your system of choice? Off the top of my head I would say that for a real one step web 'build' the following steps would have take place: Take a source snapshot Change any config files for release Compress CSS and JS Run Tests Take a database snapshot [without test data] Move the source to the server Import a clean, curren...
Which build or configuration management tool are you using in your daily programmer's life? Which would you suggest and why? Are you going for Ant? Do you use Maven? Or is there an alternative out there, like Ivy or Buildr?...
We have been using CrusiseControl for quite a while with NUnit and NAnt. For a recent project we decided to use the testing framework that comes with Visual Studio, which so far has been adequate. I'm attempting to get the solution running in Cruise Control. I've finally got the build itself to work; however, I have been unable to get...
If you are working in PHP (or I guess any programming language...) and using subversion as your source control, is there a way to take your project (for example): C:\Projects\test\.svn C:\Projects\test\docs\ C:\Projects\test\faq.php C:\Projects\test\guestbook.php C:\Projects\test\index.php C:\Projects\test\test.php a...
I have a build script and as part of that script it copies a jar file to a directory, for ease lets call it the utils jar. the utils jar is built by another build script sitting in another directory. What im trying to do have my build script run the utils build script so that I can ensure the utils jar is up to date. So I know I need ...
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...
For my own project at home, I'm using the rather excellent managed subversion hosting from CVSDude. As it's only me working on the code right now, I'm not using CruiseControl.net, however I expect this will change in the next couple of months and will want a full build process to kick off upon check-in. Has anyone managed to get Cruise...
As part of improvements to our build process, we are currently debating whether we should have separate project/solution files on our CI production environment from our local development environments. The reason this has come about is because of reference problems we experienced in our previous project. On a frequent basis people would...
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...
What is the best build tool for .net. I currently use nant but only because I have experience with ant. Do people prefer msbuild ? ...
Hello, I have a web application written in C# that consumes several internal web services. We have a development tier, a testing tier, and a production tier. Also, we use the WSDL.exe command to generate a Proxies.cs file for a given tier's web services. When we are ready to deploy our code up the stack from development to test or te...
While setting up CruiseControl, I added a buildpublisher block to the publisher tasks: <buildpublisher> <sourceDir>C:\MyBuild\</sourceDir> <publishDir>C:\MyBuildPublished\</publishDir> <alwaysPublish>false</alwaysPublish> </buildpublisher> This works, but it copies the entire file contents of the build, I only want to copy the D...
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. ...
Continuous Integration toolchains for .NET and Java Continous Integration are relatively well defined, but the C++ market seems to have less consensus. By CI "toolchain" I specifically mean tools for the build scripts, automated testing, coding standards checking, etc. all with preference given to tools that integrate with CI tools eas...
Has anyone ever set up Cruise Control to build an OS X Cocoa/Objective-C project? If so, is there a preferred flavor of CruiseControl (CruiseControl.rb or just regular CruiseControl) that would be easier to do this with. I currently have a Ruby rake file that has steps for doing building and running tests, and wanted to automate this ...
I'm new to NAnt but have some experience with Ant and CruiseControl. What I want to do is have my SVN project include all tools needed (like NUnit and Mocks etc) so I can check out onto a fresh machine and build. This strategy is outlined by J.P Boodhoo here. So far so good if I only want to run on Windows, but I want to be able to che...
I just finished setting up an out-of-place build system for our existing C++ code using inherited property sheets, a feature that seems to be specific to the Visual C++ product. Building out-of-place requires that many of the project settings be changed, and the inherited property sheets allowed me to change all the necessary settings ju...
As you develop an application database changes inevitably pop up. The trick I find is keeping your database build in step with your code. In the past I have added a build step that executed SQL scripts against the target database but that is dangerous in so much as you could inadvertanly add bogus data or worse. My question is what ...
I would like to know which dependency described in my pom.xml brings a transitive dependency in my target directory. To be more precise, I have the library "poi-2.5.1-final-20040804.jar" in my WEB-INF/lib directory and I would like to know which dependency in my pom.xml brings that. ...
I have some webtests I'd like to run as part of a build. Can webtests be run on the TFS build server without VS 2008 team system tester edition installed? Webtests can only be recorded using the tester edtion of visual studio. Here's a post from Jeff while he was at Vertigo. My question is in order to run these tests on the build s...