Sam Newman discusses how to improve the process going from software development to production, covering the following steps: building, configuration, automated testing, deploying, monitoring, logging and disasters. He offers practical advice on how to avoid transforming the development, QA and Operations into silos by using build pipelines providing continuous builds and deployment.
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/From-Development-To-Production

When Continuous Integration grows within organizations, Build Pipelines can help to manage the workflow to get software through the different checkpoints to get applications to production. This process can further evolve into Continuous Deployment. A side effect of this, is that the management of the CI infrastructure also requires an increased involvement of sysadmins and operations.

Video Producer: Devops Days
Related Resources:
* Continuous Integration: the Cornerstone of a Great Shop
* Continuous integration tools directory

The creator of Hudson, Kohsuke Kawaguchi, speaks to Digg engineering team about the current state of Hudson and what we can look forward to down the road. His comments about Selenium and Hudson are of particular interest to the QA team. There are all kinds of integration possibilities – from custom reports that include embedded Sauce Labs video results to automatically establishing connections between our environments, there are lots of ways to make tests run more often and more quickly through Hudson.

Related Resources
* Hudson Home Page
* Hudson – Your Escape …

At the last Agile Firestarter conference, Erik Stepp presents an introduction to Continuous Integration. Which would you prefer each morning when you get into the office; having to fix compilation error, failed unit tests, etc., or get right down to coding and provide value to the business? Having a Continuous Integration (CI) process setup in your development environment can mean huge gain in productivity. In this session, we explore the benefits of CI and why every development team should have one.

Resources:
* Continuous Integration: The Cornerstone of a Great Shop
* Continuous …

In this presentation the Artifactory team demonstrates the benefits of managing your software development life-cycle through continuous integration. Frederic Simon and Yoav Landman show how to automate large-scale multi-module projects using a fully-integrated platform with Artifactory and Hudson. Using Maven, Gradle, or Ivy builds, it is now possible to dynamically automate and manage the pyramidal stacks of Unit, Functional, and Integration Tests. This demo-based session will show you how Artifactory and Hudson work together to make it much easier to promote certified builds to milestone releases, and finally to general …

Continuous Integration is a software development practice where members of a team integrate their work frequently. Each integration is verified by an automated build to find problems as quickly as possible. Many teams discover that this approach leads to significantly reduced integration problems and allows a team to develop cohesive software more rapidly. In our talk, we’ll show how our team uses open-source tools, particularly Selenium Grid and Hudson, to test the web applications we make. Raymond Etornam will cover how we moved from testing them using basic Selenium IDE …

The “cup of coffee” metric examines if a developer can get up and get a cup of coffee once they commit code. After they’ve returned from their coffee break, the developer should have some feedback about whether their code was useful and if they need to start regression testing.

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Additional resources:
Continuous Integration: The Cornerstone of a Great Shop
Choosing a Continuous Integration server
Continuous Integration anti-patterns
Continuous Integration Tools Directory

The basis of Agile engineering practices is reproducibly building from source code. If software is delivered on servers, and those servers can’t be reproducibly deployed from bare metal to working services, how Agile can you be? Continuous Integration is great, but what about Continuous Delivery? This talk outlines innovations in tools, process, planning and culture emerging at the front lines.
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/agile-infrastructure

San Francisco Java User Group presents Chris Bedford who talks about:
- How to write functional tests with Selenium (including explaining its IDE, architecture, RC, and alternatives like Canoo WebTest)
- How to set up Selenium testing for web apps in continuous integration using Maven, Ant, Cargo, etc.
- How to use Hudson for build server

San Francisco Java User Group presents Kohsuke Kawaguchi from Sun who introduces us to Hudson, an open-source continuous integration (CI) system, which improves the productivity of a development team by automating various things.

Additional resources:
Hudson Blog
Continuous Integration: The Cornerstone of a Great Shop
Continuous Integration Tools Directory