Category Archives: Automation

Check Multiple Mercurial Repositories for Incoming Changes

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Geoff Lane

Currently I have a whole bunch of Mercurial repositories in a directory. All of these are cloned from a central repository that the team pushes their changes to. I like to generally keep my local repositories up-to-date so that I … Continue reading →

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DRY your CruiseControl.NET Configuration

Posted on January 30, 2009 by Geoff Lane

Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY) is one of the principles of good software development. The idea is that there should ideally be one and only one “source of knowledge” for a particular fact or calculation in a system. Basically it comes … Continue reading →

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Windows Subversion Maintenance Scripts

Posted on November 19, 2008 by Geoff Lane

Previously I wrote about the Subversion Maintenance Scripts that I use for doing things like backups and upgrades. They were bash shell scripts that automated dealing with multiple Subversion repositories. The secret was that those guys were being run using … Continue reading →

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Capistrano and Ferret DRB

Posted on June 19, 2008 by Geoff Lane

This is a bit of a followup to my previous post on Capistrano with Git and Passenger. I decided to use Ferret via the acts_as_ferret (AAF) plugin. Ferret is a full-text search inspired by Apache’s Lucene but written in Ruby. … Continue reading →

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Database Migrations for .NET

Posted on April 20, 2008 by Geoff Lane

One of the more difficult things to manage in software projects is often changing a database schema over time. On the projects that I work on, we don’t usually have DBAs who manage the schema so it is left up … Continue reading →

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Start a New Branch on your Remote Git Repository

Posted on April 14, 2008 by Geoff Lane

Git is a distributed version control system so it allows you to create branches locally and commit against them. It also supports a more centralized repository model. When using a centralized repository you can push changes to it so that … Continue reading →

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CruiseControl With a Specific Version of Grails

Posted on March 27, 2008 by Geoff Lane

Continuous Integration is a good practice in software development. It helps catch problems early to prevent them from becoming bigger problems later. It helps to reinforce other practices like frequent checkins and unit testing as well. I’m using CruiseControl (CC) … Continue reading →

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Test Automation Seminar

Posted on October 20, 2007 by Geoff Lane

A long, long time ago in a land far away, I worked with my friend Frank Cohen to help him build the first version of a Web Service and Web Application test tool that was called TestMaker. Since then, Frank … Continue reading →

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Automated Subversion Tagging With MSBuild

Posted on February 23, 2007 by Geoff Lane

I’ve written previously about using MSBuild With Nunit as well as a bit of a Manifesto on Relentless Build Automation. I believe that automating the build and deployment process is a necessary step to ensure the reliable delivery of quality … Continue reading →

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More On MSBuild

Posted on November 30, 2006 by Geoff Lane

On the heels of my article on using MSBuild with NUnit, I’ve been totally outdone by Brennan. Check out his series on MSBuild. He covers Unit testing with NUnit (naturally), but starts with the basics, and gets into everything from … Continue reading →

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