I have an application that sends messages to an external web service. I build and deploy this application using MSBuild and Cruisecontrol.NET. As CCNET build and deploys the app it also runs a set of test using NUnit. I'd now like to test the web service communication as well. My idea is that as part of the build process a web service ...
I use this tool called Lazy C++ which breaks a single C++ .lzz file into a .h and .cpp file. I want Makepp to expect both of these files to exist after my rule for building .lzz files, but I'm not sure how to put two targets into a single build line. ...
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 have a few Visual Studio Solutions/Projects that are being worked on in my company, which now require a scheme for automatic nightly builds. Such a scheme needs to be able to check the latest versions from SVN, build the solutions, create the appropriate downloadable files (including installers, documentation, etc.), send e-mails to th...
When should I include PDB files for a production release? Should I use the "Optimize code" flag and how would that affect the information I get from an exception? If there is a noticable performance benefit I would want to use the optimizations but if not I'd rather have accurate debugging info. What is typically done for a production a...
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...
The situation: We're out of beta and version 1.0 has been released to several customer sites. Team A is already busy working on version 1.1 that will have incremental bugfixes and usability tweaks, while another team works on version 2.0 with large-scale changes, where the core of the product may have been completely redesigned. Now, mos...
In my automated NAnt build we have a step that generates a lot of code off of the database (using SubSonic) and the code is separated into folders that match the schema name in the database. For example: /generated-code /dbo SomeTable.cs OtherTable.cs /abc Customer.cs Order.cs The schema names are there to isolate the generat...
We have an Apache ANT script to build our application, then check in the resulting JAR file into version control (VSS in this case). However, now we have a change that requires us to build 2 JAR files for this project, then check both into VSS. The current target that checks the original JAR file into VSS discovers the name of the JAR ...
In my current environment, we have a "clean" build machine, which has an exact copy of all committed changes, nothing more, nothing less. And of course I have my own machine, with dozens of files in an "in-progress" state. Often I need to build my application with only one change in place. For example, I've finished task ABC, and I wa...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but a "build" is a "compile", and not every language compiles. Continuous Integration involves building components to see if they continue to work beyond unit tests, which I might be oversimplifying. But if your project involves a language that does not compile, how do you perform nightly builds or use continuous...
Hi, i'm wondering if there is any nice and neat tool to replace the GNU Autotools or Make to build a very large C++ project, which are such a complicated thing to use. It is simple to generate all the files that de Autotools require if the project is small, but if the source code is divided in many directories, with multiple third part...
When I build my ASP.NET web application I get a .dll file with the code for the website in it (which is great) but the website also needs all the .aspx files and friends, and these need to be placed in the correct directory structure. How can I get this all in one directory as the result of each build? Trying to pick the right files out ...
I run a rather complex project with several independent applications. These use however a couple of shared components. So I have a source tree looking something like the below. My Project Application A Shared1 Shared2 Application B Application C All applications have their own MSBuild script that builds the project and all the s...
We have a recurring problem at my company with build breaks in our Flex projects. The problem primarily occurs because the build that the developers do on their local machines is fundamentally different from the build that occurs on the build machine. The devs are building the projects using FlexBuilder/eclipse and the build machine is u...
My initial tests have shown that Robot won't work without an active, visible desktop. For example, while a scheduled task (or executed command from the continuous integration server) may be able to start robot as a command-line process, Robot will actually fail to execute the recorded script. Logging into the build machine to allow it a...
I'm aware I can add maven repositories for fetching dependencies in ~/.m2/settings.xml. But is it possible to add a repository using command line, something like: mvn install -Dmaven.repository=http://example.com/maven2 The reason I want to do this is because I'm using a continuous integration tool where I have full control over the c...
I need to know how to turn on Code Coverage when running TFS builds on a solution with a .testrunconfig file. There is an option in the testrunconfig file that is for code coverage, but when running a TFS build there is no code coverage results. I am running my tests using the *Tests.dll mask and NOT using Test Lists (.vsmdi). ...
How do I tell my boss, that I need endless cpu power to automate my daily job? By the way, what's your setup, now in sep, 2008. How fast disks? How much memory? How many cores? How big screen? (Ok, what the hell are you doing, you may ask. I'm working in multiple environments, vmware. Have couple of build-systems running, for comp...
Is there a way to call an external script or program from Flash CS3 every time it builds a SWF file? I'd like to add subversion information using subwcrev - the SVN keywords don't work because they only update when the version class file is updated. ...