Building a Continuous Integration Server

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Building a Continuous Integration Server

• Subversion, Tortoise, NDepend, FxCop, NCover,
  NUnit, NAnt, CruiseControl.Net

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Raymond Lewallen

• 11 years experience
• Microsoft MVP Visual Developer C
• Email rlewallen_at_gmail.com
• Website
• CodeBetter.com/blogs/Raymond.Lewallen
• RaymondLewallen.com

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What is Continuous Integration?

• Takes manual integration, often infrequent and
  painful, and makes it a simple, hands-free core
  part of your daily activities.
• Measures progress.
• Provides feedback.
• Martin Fowler on Continuous Integration
• http//www.martinfowler.com/articles/continuousInt
  egration.html

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Subversion

• http//subversion.tigris.org/
• The goal of the Subversion project is to build a
  version control system that is a compelling
  replacement for CVS in the open source community.
  The software is released under an
  Apache/BSD-style open source license.

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Tortoise SVN

• http//tortoisesvn.tigris.org/
• A Subversion client, implemented as a windows
  shell extension.
• Since it's not an integration for a specific IDE
  you can use it with whatever development tools
  you like.
• TortoiseSVN is free to use.

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NDepend

• http//www.ndepend.com/
• Analyzes .NET assemblies of an application and
  generates reports containing design quality
  metrics, warnings and diagrams.

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FxCop (Framework Cop)

• http//www.gotdotnet.com/team/fxcop/
• Code analysis tool that checks .NET managed code
  assemblies for conformance to the Microsoft .NET
  Framework Design Guidelines.
• Library Design
• Naming Conventions
• Performance
• Security

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NCover

• http//ncover.org/SITE/
• Provides statistics about your code, telling you
  how many times each line of code was executed
  during a particular run of the application.
• Provide a measurement of how thoroughly your unit
  tests exercise your code

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NUnit

• http//www.nunit.org/
• Unit-testing framework for all .Net languages.

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TestDriven.Net

• http//www.testdriven.net/
• Makes it easy to run unit tests with a single
  click, anywhere in your Visual Studio solutions.
• Comes with multiple unit testing frameworks.
• NUnit, MbUnit, TeamSystem, Ad-Hoc

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NAnt

• http//nant.sourceforge.net/
• Free .NET build tool.
• XML-based configuration files.

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CruiseControl.Net

• http//confluence.public.thoughtworks.org/display/
  CCNET/WelcometoCruiseControl.NET
• Automated Continuous Integration server,
  implemented using the Microsoft .NET Framework.
• Automates the integration process by monitoring
  the team's source control repository directly

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Now lets build a server!
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Questions?

• rlewallen_at_gmail.com
• CodeBetter.com/blogs/Raymond.Lewallen