My article on the role of Continuous Integration as helping be the bridge between the Developer and Automated Test Writer who continually engage in a Tug of War was published in the September issue of Automated Software Testing Magazine! It’s been a couple of years since I wrote an article for a magazine, and this [...]

So, is James Bach (@jamesmarcusbach) the bad boy of testing? I flew up to Boston on Monday to lead some workshops on Continuous Integration. I checked into my room at the Hyatt and then went downstairs to see who was around. I ran into a couple of speakers milling about, and eventually joined one of [...]

At OSC, we have a well developed methodology that we apply to our client work, and one of the core tenets is using Continuous Integration to ensure our code behaves the way we intend it to. However, recently we’ve had two projects were the usual CI solutions such as CruiseControl etc haven’t worked out well, [...]

I have the honor of speaking to the Richmond SPIN group on Continous Integration next week Wednesday, May 13. SPIN is the Software and Systems Process Improvement Network, and are the local groups sponsored by Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute. My presentation is going to be a bit different from some of the previous [...]

I’ll be speaking on CI for the beTech group March 19th: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM March 19, 2009 Location: Clemons Library room 407 Please come hear Eric Pugh of Open Source Connections (http://www.opensourceconnections.com/) discuss Continuous Integration (CI). The goal of CI is to have “a fully automated and reproducible build [of your project], including [...]

I attended the Continuous Integration and Testing Conference (CITCON) in Denver Colorado last weekend and I have to say that I was impressed by the effectiveness of the OpenSpace conference format. The following are highlights from the sessions I attended: What is Continuous Integration? What should be including in Continuous Integration 2.0? This session was [...]

I attended the Continuous Integration and Testing Conference (CITCON) in Denver Colorado this past weekend and experienced first hand the OpenSpace conference format. I was skeptical about the concept of the OpenSpace conference format because it just did not seem structured enough. It turns out I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of real world [...]