CI with CuiseControl'Net and Nant

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CI with CuiseControl.Net and Nant

• South Florida Enterprise and Strategy Architects
  Special Interest Group (SF ESA SIG)
• June 19, 2007
• Lawrence Port
• Otive LLC
• larry_at_otive.com

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What is Continuous Integration?

• Continuous Integration is a software development
  practice where members of a team integrate their
  work frequently, usually each person integrates
  at least daily - leading to multiple integrations
  per day. Each integration is verified by an
  automated build (including test) to detect
  integration errors as quickly as possible.
  Martin Fowler

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An XP technique

• Pair programming
• Planning Game
• Test Driven Development
• Whole team
• Continuous Integration
• Design Improvement
• Small Releases
• Coding Standards
• Collective Code Ownership
• Simple Design
• System Metaphor
• Sustainable Pace

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Continuous Integration Scenario

• Developer checks out latest source code from
  repository.
• Developer makes changes (hopefully with TDD).
• Developer checks out latest source again to look
  for conflicts.
• With conflicts resolved, developer checks in
  changes to repository.
• CI system, detecting changes, checks out source
  code on an integration server.
• CI system builds.
• CI system runs automated tests.

Demo Alice
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Is CI just another unpracticed trend?

• Who in the room does CI?
• Nant and CruiseControl.Net widely used.

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Nant Overview

• Targets contain Tasks (think functions)
• Tasks perform actions

lttarget name"config"gt ltproperty
name"build.dir" value"CruiseControlDemoProject\b
in\Debug"/gt lt/targetgt lttarget
name"clean" depends"config"gt ltdelete
dir"build.dir"/gt ltmkdir
dir"build.dir"/gt lt/targetgt
Properties are variables
Targets may have dependencies
Demo basic file usage
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Important Nant Tasks

• Nunit
• Copy
• Mkdir, rmdir
• Foreach
• Zip, tar
• Functions exist as well
• Also ability to pass in parameters at command
  line

Show Nant documentation
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CruiseControl.Net Overview

• Suite of apps for Continuous Integration
• CCNet Server
• CCNet Web Dashboard
• CCNet Tray
• Allows reporting via XSL.

Demo Start server, show web dash
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General CC.Net Flow
ccnet.exe
Source control
nant
nunit
fitnesse
fxcop
coverage
merge
xml result
xsl
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Important CCNet Config Elements

• Source Control
• Tasks
• Publishers
• Triggers
• Nant
• Merge
• Email

Demo ccnet.config
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More In-depth CI

• Working with Databases
• Distributed build scenarios
• Custom Nant tasks
• Custom CruiseControl.Net elements

Demo dashboard.config, ccnet.exe.config,
javascriptlocalizer,
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References

• CruiseControl.Net http//confluence.public.though
  tworks.org/display/CCNET/WelcometoCruiseControl.
  NET
• Nant http//nant.sourceforge.net/
• Original CI article http//www.martinfowler.com/
  articles/continuousIntegration.html