Thursday, August 7th, 2008
My talk on the patterns & practices Service Factory:ME team's experiences with Continuous Integration (CI) and our data analysis of the CI and Team Foundation Server logs is this morning at Agile 2008. You can find the presentation for this talk here:
One Hundred Days of Continuous Integration - slide deck
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Tags: agile, Continuous integration, Distributed teams, Events, Microsoft, p&p, Proven practices, Static analysis, Toronto
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Sunday, June 15th, 2008
An imaginary conversation between you and another developer on your team, whom we'll call Fred.
You: Hey, the build is broken!
Fred: No it's not.
You: It is. The CI server is red and the log says that one of the projects is missing a file.
Fred: It's red?
You: Yes... You did the last ...
Tags: Continuous integration, Proven practices
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Tomorrow night (Thursday 12th June) I'll be talking to the Seattle XP Users group about "A Hundred Days of Continuous Integration". This is a dry run for giving the talk at Agile 2008 in August. At the very least I'm hoping for audience feedback, and not of the rotten fruit ...
Tags: agile, Continuous integration, Distributed teams, Events, p&p, Seattle
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Here's the final abstract... Many agile teams use Continuous Integration (CI). It is one of the Extreme Programming practices and has been broadly adopted by the community [1]. Just how effective is it? Does the effort of maintaining the CI server and fixing build breaks save time compared to ...
Tags: agile, Continuous integration, Distributed teams, Events, p&p
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Several people at the p&p Summit had questions around CI. I thought I'd follow it up with a post on with some useful links etc. I’ve used CI on a couple of teams at Microsoft, notably Visual Studio Tools for Office and the patterns & practices group. While we were ...
Tags: Continuous integration
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