Roll your own Continuous Integration System (C.I.S.): Apache and uSVN

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

Understand that it is necessary, you need it, you deserve it, you want Subversion to control your code revisions. But you are clumsy enough (just as me) to be able to build your own repository at home with svn and Apache.

Thank God I found some brilliant tutorials and products, all of them, of couse, open source. I was intended to use only Tomcat6 and war packaged software, but both Apache and uSvn really deserve some Megas in the hard drive of your heart (and in the Continuous Integration Server's one).

I liked it too much because, mainly, because when I read about an easy tutorial, it takes me some days or weeks to accomplish its goal, ufff, I am not exaggerating, I am often silly. But it didn't happen this time with this uSVN tutorial and product.


By the way, what is uSVN?

"User-Friendly USVN is a web interface written in PHP used to configure Subversion repositories.It's goal is to ease the creation of new projects without having to use the command line interface, therefor, maybe without privileged access to the server. USVN will then generate the list of users allowed to access your source code. This enable the delegation of rights to administrate Subversion repositories."


From its official web:
https://trac.usvn.info/wiki/Documentation/Install

Another point of view from one of my favourites and abandoned blogs:
http://killerconfigurations.blogspot.com/2009/08/easy-svn-web-administration.html


Enjoy :)

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!