Roll your own Continuous Integration System (C.I.S.): Abstract.

Roll your own Continuous Integration System (C.I.S.)


Content:

Abstract

Install Tomcat

Basic Tomcat configuration - Memory

Basic Tomcat configuration - JMX

Basic Tomcat configuration - Application Manager and permissions

Apache and uSVN

Installing Artifactory from WAR

Configure Artifactory and MySQL

Configuring Artifactory security and repositories

http://looking4q.blogspot.com/2011/01/roll-your-own-continuous-integration.html

This is the very first goal for the followers of this blog.

For those who doesn't know what a Continuous Integration System is, you could take a look at wikipedia, but, summarizing with an example, is a software that every night downloads your code, compiles it, executes unitary testing and deploys it in your server or in your dependency repository.

That's not all. It could pass several control checks like code style, testing code coverage, code quality, it makes a report and send it to your email, and other for the guilty developer that wrote some code that generates lots of warnings.

This information is processed for cyclic dependencies, copied&pasted code, percent of commented code, percent of tested code... reports and more reports.

Some of this reports are also postprocessed in order to evaluate each developer independently. Then it creates a dashboard with scores for each participant, trying to motivate the team for a better code.

Appealing enough?

I have selected some tools that I use in my company. This list might be modified in near future:

Code Repository: We are using Subversion
Dependencies manager: Maven
Dependencies repository: Artifactory, which understands Maven among others.
C.I.S Manager: Hudson: which understands Maven and SVN among others.
Extra: Sonar as quality of code reporter.
Extra: Wiki or CMS

And Tomcat6 as the container of everything or almost everything.

In next articles, I will try to explain how to install and deploy each tool in order to get something similar to my example in your own company or at home.

See you soon!