Jay Flowers on Continuous Integration (MSDN Magazine - March 2008)
Wow! Continuous Integration sure seems to be the flavour of the month this year! I just finished reading a very insightful article on setting up a CI environment by Jay Flowers, creator of CI Factory, on the March 2008 edition of MSDN Magazine. He took good care to discuss the basics practices and key principles behind CI independently of the build server. Without going too much into the details of the article, Jay discusses how to setup a CI environment with MSBuild, mbUnit, WatiN and CC.NET, as well as his own creation: CI Factory.
I’ll be using a different approach for my series on Continuous Integration, but needless to say that the same principles Jay wrote about in the article will be reiterated in the following weeks. No doubt that Jay’s article will give you more than a few key ideas to consider for your actual or next CI project.
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- Setting Up a Continuous Integration Environment (Preface)
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- Part II: Setting Up Our Build Server With TeamCity
- Part I: Beginning the CI Journey with Subversion
- Book Review #7: "The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)"
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