Tag Archives: continuous integration

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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Tracking Project Metrics

Posted on January 8, 2009 by Geoff Lane

How do you track the health of your software projects? Ideally you could come up with few, easy to collect metrics and have your Continuous Integration system generate the information and maybe even graph it over time. What we track … Continue reading →

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Pragmatic Project Automation

Posted on November 12, 2006 by Geoff Lane

In a previous post, I wrote a review of Pragmatic Version Control Using Subversion which covers effectively using version control systems on software development projects. This entry covers another book by the Pragmatic Programmers in their Pragmatic Starter Series. Pragmatic … Continue reading →

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Continuous Integration Revisited

Posted on August 10, 2006 by Geoff Lane

I had a chance to install and play with JetBrain’s new Team City beta today. Team City at its most basic is a Continuous Integration server. Continuous Integration (CI) systems are used to help manage a team’s software development process. … Continue reading →

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