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Use Test Categorization for Agile Builds
Everyone agrees that developer testing is important, but ever-lengthening build times can discourage running these tests with optimal frequency. Andrew Glover's new IBM DeveloperWorks article outlines a strategy to use categorized tests to ensure end-to-end system soundness, including examples on how to automatically sort and run tests by category, resulting in dramatically reduced build times.
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Gauntlet: Borland's Continous Integration server with defect isolation and trending
Borland in early October released a beta of Gauntlet continous integration server. Like any continous integration server, Gauntlet automates build and testing but also provides change sandboxing, reporting and trending, failure correlation, replay alongside existing repositories, and easy access to build, test, and run previous project versions.
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CruiseControl.Net 1.1 Released
The team behind CruiseControl.Net has released version 1.1. CrusieControl.Net provides continuous integration capabilities for .NET developers. A cornerstone of Agile development, continuous integration is used to ensure that team members stay in sync and the integration issues are discovered early. This marks the first major release of CuriseControl.Net in nearly a year.
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JetBrains Releases IntelliJ 6.0 and Team City 1.0
Jetbrains has released version 6.0 of their IntelliJ IDE and version 1.0 of their new TeamCity continuous integration server product. IntelliJ 6.0 improves support for EJB 3.0 and adds support for several new frameworks such as GWT. TeamCity includes pre-commit testing to ensure that incoming code changes do not break the build.
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Choosing a Continuous Integration Server
In the first of a series of articles on continuous integration Paul Duvall compares three popular continuous integration servers, Continuum, CruiseControl, and Luntbuild. He considers criteria such as features, longevity, target environment, and ease of use.
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NAG Continuous Integration Monitor Announced
Digital Focus has announced their open source "NAG" continuous integration tool, which monitors the stability of multiple application servers and notifies users of software build failures via audible and visual cues. Ready now for Apache Continuum, and already working to support Cruise Control, Lunt Build, and Ant Hill monitoring, this tool is specifically designed to support Agile teams.
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Pulse Continuous Integration Server 1.1 Released
Zutubi has recently announced Pulse 1.1. Pulse is a continuous integration server for building and testing your project's source code. It supports a number of build frameworks (ant, maven, etc) and SCM servers (CVS, Perforce, Subversion, etc).
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Easy Continuous Integration for your Rails Project
Jay Fields of ThoughtWorks describes his team's continuous integration setup.
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Buildix: Agile Java Toolset on a Disk
Buildix version 1.1, released today, provides teams with rapid and straightforward setup of a complete Agile Java development environment, including Continuous Integration, Source Control, a Wiki and a Bug-Tracker. The Thoughtworks developers who created it call it "an Agile development platform on a disk".
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Getting Agile with Eclipse Continuous Integration
The Eclipse "Callisto" release includes agility-enhancing features, including a new version of the testing tools developed in the "TPTP" project. In their online presentation, project committers Scott E. Schneider and Joe Toomey say that by using TPTP in the Continuous Integration cycle developers gain more powerful test types, better/more extensible reporting, and easy platform coverage.