Questions #1 through #4 on the Joel Test in my opinion are all about the development tools being used and the support system in place for developers: Do you use source control? Can you make a build in one step? Do you make daily builds? Do you have a bug database? I'm just curious what free/cheap (but good) tools exist for the sm...
We are trying to integrate tests in our daily builds using TestComplete, so far we have a machine dedicated for testing and our build script copies to this machine everything TestComplete needs for its tests (Application, Database, Test script project and source files, etc). Basically we can open the TestComplete project manually and ru...
I am in the process of designing a daily build routine for my project. We are using Flex 3 and SQL Server 2005. I am unsure to what degree I should be rebuilding the database on a daily build. Should I be dropping all tables and stored procedures and adding them back in? Then I would have to have a script that put all the default dat...
I currently mantain an open-source project hosted in SourceForge. My project is written in Java using ANT build scripts. (Ant has a few extensions installed, but let's ignore that for now.) Unfortunately, there seems to be no easy way to automatically generate daily builds. Is there any workaround I can use. Here is what I want: It sh...
I have a web application project that works with quite large database (over 5GB). Data in the database is partitioned by project. Each project takes approximately 1GB, and it is a minimal set for application to work (we do some math calculations that spread across this dataset and removing a part of the dataset is not an option). As a ...
So we've been running a daily build on our current project for a lot of months at this point. The smoke tests that goes along with that daily build isn't very complex, though - we run a few nUnit tests on our main class library (which, admittedly, doesn't offer great code coverage), and we make sure that things compile and build. The app...
My program has a daily routine, similar to an alarm clock event. Say, when it's 2pm(The time is the system time in my pc), do something for me. What I want to do is to speed up the testing period(I don't really want to wait 4 days looking at the daily routine and check errors.) I read on wiki of Mock object, the writer DID mention alar...
I run a Visual C++ console test program inside the daily build. Every now and then the test would call some function that was changed by other developers improperly, descend into an infinite loop and hang thus blocking the build. I need a watchdog solution as simple as possible. Here's what I came up with. In the test program entry poin...
I recently stumbled over buildbot and wanted to give it a try. My problem is that I have to run it under Windows because we don't use Linux on workstations or servers in my company. I've already tried different installations: python 2.6, Twisted-9.0.0-py2.6, buildbot 0.7.12 python 2.6, pywin32-214-py2.6, Twisted-9.0.0-py2.6, buildbot 0....
We are working in a big team, building a web application in JSF, where each developer develops new task. For example: User Management, Security, System Parameters etc. We need to create a daily task to build the WAR from the SVN. We know how to use daily builder, SVN etc. Our question is how to save it per module? What is the recomme...