items tagged with continuousbuild

Apache foundation is using Hudson for continuous build (and also JBOSS)

Hudson monitors executions of repeated jobs, such as building a software project or jobs run by cron.
Among those things, current Hudson focuses on the following two jobs:

1. Building/testing software projects continuously, just like CruiseControl or DamageControl.
   In a nutshell, Hudson provides an easy-to-use so-called continuous integration system,
   making it easier for developers to integrate changes to the project, and making it easier
   for users to obtain a fresh build. The automated, continuous build increases the productivity.
2. Monitoring executions of externally-run jobs, such as cron jobs and procmail jobs, even those
   that are run on a remote machine. For example, with cron, all you receive is regular e-mails that
   capture the output, and it is up to you to look at them diligently and notice when it broke.
   Hudson keeps those outputs and makes it easy for you to notice when something is wrong.

This is a public build and test server for various Apache Projects.

An Eclipse plugin is also available the online WIKI is HERE

If you are shopping for a build server, and you are not on a budget, I can recommend you the
excellent Team City from JetBrains. Maven integration is also good, but wont probably never reach the level
of Hudson as it is made by Apache and tailored for their frameworks needs.

More screen shots here

phpUnderControl is an add-on application for the continuous integration tool CruiseControl, which integrates some of the best PHP development tools. This project aims to make your first steps with CruiseControl and PHP as easy as possible. Therefore phpUnderControl comes with a command line tool that performs all modifications to an existing CruiseControl installation. My objective is to be able to set up this server and provide you all an access to the build result for my component.

• Testing and software metrics

  PHPUnit is the most popular xUnit implementation for PHP that provides a framework for automated
  software tests. Except the pure test automation PHPUnit contains a rich set of features like
  Code Coverage, Project Mess Detection and Software Metrics. To visualize the generated XML reports
  phpUnderControl comes with a set of XSL stylesheets that prepare the output for CruiseControl.

• Documentation

  phpUnderControl uses the most common documentation tool for PHP projects, PhpDocumentor, to generate
  an up to date documentation of the software on every build cycle. Therefore the developers will always get
  the latest API documentation of their project. Additionally phpUnderControl extracts the documentation
  violations found by the PhpDocumentor and visualizes these as an additional quality report in the user
  interface and the project time line of documentation violations.

• Coding Standards

  With the package PHP_CodeSniffer the PEAR project gave PHP developers a very useful tool to detect coding
  standard violations in a project. Since version 1.0.0RC3 it has native support for the Checkstyle XML format
  that can be visualized by CruiseControl. PHP_CodeSniffer comes with a variety of pre defined coding standards
  like PEAR and ZEND but due to its modular structure you can easily implement a custom rule set or extend one
  of the pre defined sets. This development tool assures that the whole project code will remain clean and
  consistent.
  From http://www.phpundercontrol.org/about.html

Selenium is a test tool for web applications. Selenium tests run directly in a browser, just like real users do. It runs in Internet Explorer, Mozilla and Firefox on Windows, Linux, and Macintosh, Safari on the Mac.  They have plans to target Safari on the iPhone in some months. The tool is free and available under Apache 2.0.

• Install the firefox plugin, note the latest version work only in Firefox 2.0 not in 3.0Beta!
• Install also XPather another Firefox extension, very helpful to get the elements  XAPTH in pages.
• Of course restart Firefox
• Open either the sidebar (go to menu View, Sidebar, Selenium IDE) or the floating windows
  (go to menu Tools - Selenium IDE)
• Go to the page where you wan to test something
• Put the right Base URL (A) and press button (B) when ready