Stephen D. Ritchie – Managing Consultant – Excella Consulting, Inc., 2300 Wilson Blvd, Suite 630, Arlington, VA 22201 – 703.840.8600 – http://excella.com

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Continuous Integration:

Blueprint, Toolbox, Master Craft

Stephen D. Ritchie@RuthlessHelp

Dec 7, 2012

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Live Tweet, Slides and Examples

• Twitter: @RuthlessHelp

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• Slides:

http://www.slideshare.net/ruthlesshelp

• Code Samples:

http://github.com/ruthlesshelp

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The Problem

SourceCode

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Scott’sComputer

Susan’sComputer

You

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Scott makes changes

Susan makes changes

You can’t build

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What Went Wrong?

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Conflicts

Missing Files

Breaking Changes

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How do youfind

integrationissues?

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Manual Integration

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Build

Run Some Unit Tests

Perform Static Analysis

Clean + Rebuild All

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Continuous Integration Blueprint

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CI Server

SourceCode

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Scott’sComputer

Susan’sComputer

You

CIServer

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CI Server

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Triggered by SCMand

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CI – Per Commit Steps

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1. Clean + Rebuild All

2. Run All Unit Tests

Coding Standards

3. AnalysisStatic Code Analysis

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Continuous Integration Toolbox

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CI Server – Jenkins

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http://jenkins-ci.org/

Free

Open Source

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CI Server – Cruise Control

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http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/

Free

Open Source

http://www.cruisecontrolnet.org/

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CI Server – TeamCity

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Commercial

Easy to Use

http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/

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Perhaps an example would

be helpful

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Continuous Integration Master Craft

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The Master Craft

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Unit TestingPlus

Code Coverage

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The Master Craft

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Integration Testing

System Testing

Acceptance Testing

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The Master Craft

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Code Quality

Metrics

Visualizations

Detections

Checks

Analysis

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The Master Craft

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ReportingAnd

Visibility

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The Master Craft

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PackagingAnd

Deployment

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Stephen’s Contact Info

• Email: stephen.ritchie@excella.com

• LinkedIn:

http://www.linkedin.com/in/sritchie

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