I'm planning to propose to my (very small) company that we buy a computer to run continous integration on. If they say yes, the task of actually buying the machine will probably fall on me, so my question is: What do I look for in a computer that will be used for continuous integration for a very small (3 people) php team? What "stuff"...
We currently use a hand-rolled setup and configuration script and a hand-rolled continuous integration script to build and deploy our application. I am looking at formalizing this somewhat with a third party system designed for these purposes. I have looked into Phing before, and I get that it's basically like Ant. But, my Ant experienc...
I am searching for a good system for PHP, which does UnitTesting, Subversion, Coding Standards. I would love to hear your suggestions and which one is the best and why. I will be running it on a debian server so anything which runs on mac or windows servers would be out of the question. ...
Cruisecontrol and Hudson are two popular continuous integration systems. Although both systems are able to do the automated continuous builds nicely, it just seems a lot easier to create a batch or bash build script, then use Windows scheduler or cron to schedule builds. Are there better continuous integration systems available for C++...
Imagine you are implementing the user story containing various new features and adding complexity to the code base. The existing code is quite well covered and you have just decided upon interfaces. You are starting to implement the functionality starting with tests. Now you have fairly complex test cases based on the requirements but ...
I think this is a multi-part question, so bear with me. Currently all of our developers use the version of Tortise built for SVN 1.4 and our SVN server is running 1.4. Our build server is running CC.Net and is using SVN 1.4. We want to upgrade. I've established that upgrading our clients to 1.5, then our server to 1.5 will work for u...
I've been using maven2 and hudson for a while to do my continuous integration, but I find that Eclipse and Maven do not play well together. Sure there's a plugin, but it's cranky to mash the maven project into something that eclipse likes and the build times and unit test are too long. I'm considering switching back to a pure eclipse pro...
Any failed ASSERT statements on Windows cause the below debug message to appear and freeze the applications execution. I realise this is expected behaviour but it is running periodically on a headless machine so prevent the unit tests from failing, instead waiting on user input indefinitely. Is there s a registry key or compiler flag I ...
How do you go about doing a daily build and striving for a zero-defect environment? Does it mean I never get to go home until I've killed all the bugs in my new code? Or does it mean I just don't check my code back in until I've fully tested it, which leaves the code effectively branched for a much longer time? I'm working with a handfu...
I'm currently working on a server-side product which is a bit complex to deploy on a new server, which makes it an ideal candidate for testing out in a VM. We are already using Hudson as our CI system, and I would really like to be able to deploy a virtual machine image with the latest and greatest software as a build artifact. So, how...
Automated tests MUST be fast to reflect real time project state. The idea is that: after any commit to repository automated build is performed (as fast as it can be done). if build succeeded automated tests are started. MUST be fast. This is the best way i know to find out if your changes break anything. At first it seemed that maki...
I am preparing to use continuous integration for the first time. I will be using Nant for the automated build and testing tasks, and am trying to find the appropriate CI tool to poll the repository and execute the Nant script. I have so far loosely researched the following: Hudson Cruise Control Draco My sense so far is that since ...
I would like to pull artifacts from teamcity. I've been trying to use c# and the HtmlAgilityPack to goto the website and find the latest version and its artifacts. I'm currently stuck at the login, I think I just need to be sending Session Cookies out. Am I going in the right direction, has anyone else tried this? I realize that pushi...
i would like to ask you which automated build environment you consider better, based on practical experience. i'm planning to do some .Net and some Java development, so i would like to have a tool that supports both these platforms. i've been reading around and found out about CruiseControl.NET, used on stackoverflow development, and Te...
My company starts a new project next week. We have planned to develop the application with eclipse rcp. The build process should be fully automated, so we're prepared to set up a continuous integration environment (e.g. Continuum). For the build-automation-part I intended to use maven2, because I want use its dependency management. I ha...
I have now worked on two different teams that use the Agile/Scrum approach in the last two years and both teams were eager to improve the way they approach software development. In the first team, we could easily convince our product owner to get time for internal things like improving the build system, setting up better integration test...
After using Hudson for continuous integration with a prior project, I want to set up a continuous integration server for the iPhone projects I'm working on now. After doing some research it looks like there aren't any CI engines designed specifically for Xcode, but one guy has had success using Cruise Control combined with the xcodebuild...
I can think of plenty of good reasons to using it; however, what are the downsides to it? (Apart from buying another server) What are some advantages to using a daily build instead of it? ...
I've been exploring different strategies for running integration tests within some Nant build scripts. Typically a number of different scripts are chained in one monolithic build that has separate targets: staging (build a staging version, like build), build (just build the stuff), integration (build the stuff and run the integration tes...
OK, so I readily concede that I'm a newbie when it comes to continuous integration. That being said, I'm trying to set up a CC.NET environment to educate myself, but I'm having trouble finding the information I need to get the automated build portion set up. As I understand it, in C# the .csproj file produced by VS 2005 and forward is ...