Friday, February 6, 2009

ScribeFire from Mauritius and cyclone GAEL class 2

Mauritus is fun - in and out of the office.

So far out of the office = hotel La Plantation

But I intend to do some traveling over the weekend.

The cyclone was a bit of a surprise, but we are now right in the middle of the cyclone season!
Check for current cyclones!

Tonight we are doing a production implementation on Bankmaster. Nobody is going home early, but hopefully if all goes well we can take off the weekend!

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

FW: CI + QC + QTP

https://hudson.dev.java.net/

From: Webber, Steven SW
Sent: 13 January 2009 10:03 AM

Subject: RE: CI + QC + QTP

Hi.

Our current thinking is:
Unit tests are executed with each build.
Integration tests, written by developers, are executed with each deployment to INT. (Nightly/after a successful build)

QTP scripts are executed only when the build is promoted to UAT. (Bi-weekly? End of Sprint..?)

Not sure how much of this can be fed back to CI?

Thanks
Steven

-----Original Message-----
From: Van Der Merwe, Ben B
Sent: 13 January 2009 09:49 AM
To: de Vleeschauwer, Camiel C; Venter, Carl c; Webber, Steven SW; craig;
Phale, Mafatshe M; Mase, Luvuyo L
Cc: charles; Frazer, Shirley
Subject: FW: CI + QC + QTP

Hi guys,

If some of the acceptance / 'smoke' tests have been automated/mechanised
(with QTP scripts) it makes sense to execute them with each (nightly)
build that is deployed to UAT and feed the results back to the CI tool.

In terms of the incremental / hourly builds it makes sense to execute
unit tests and unit integration tests as part of the incremental builds
and to feed the results back to the CI tool.

Maybe we can work towards some goals in both of these areas? Who else
need to be involved?

Thanks,
Ben

-----Original Message-----
From: Craig McKenzie
Sent: 13 January 2009 08:00 AM
To: Van Der Merwe, Ben B; Phale, Mafatshe M
Cc: Charles
Subject: CI + QC + QTP

Hi,

I'd like to know if there is the possibility that the QTP results could
be wanted in the CI tool (or if the CI tool should possibly execute the
QTP scripts).

Thanks

--
Craig McKenzie
Technical Testing Consultant
Micro to Mainframe
http://www.mtom.co.za

Sunday, January 11, 2009

FW: Continuous integration tool at Tanzanite

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From: Van Der Merwe, Ben B
Sent: 09 January 2009 10:24 AM
To: 'craig'; 'charles'
Subject: RE: Continuous integration tool at Tanzanite


As far as I know the firewall port that has to be opened is for the
purpose of automatic deployment from the CI server to the destination
server (in UAT behind the firewall)...

This piece will be missing for now.

There is also some tagging required as part of the WAS 6.1 code branch
(based on our current production release). This may be a once off
activity. A new Hudson build will have to be defined for this (the
current Hudson build was defined before the WAS 6 code branch).

Ben

-----Original Message-----
From: Van Der Merwe, Ben B
Sent: 09 January 2009 09:24 AM
To: 'craig'; charles
Subject: RE: Continuous integration tool at Tanzanite

Craig,

I have confirmed with Naveen and Goosie and Carl Wanting.

Thee will be using Hudson for incremental builds (Payments, Balances and
Statements, Channel), but only starting with the WAS 6.1 upgrade (we
receive this code drop from C2P today).

There are / will be hourly builds - but there is still a firewall port
that must be opened (this can only be done next week).

Ben

-----Original Message-----
From: Craig McKenzie
Sent: 09 January 2009 07:23 AM
To: charles; Van Der Merwe, Ben B
Subject: Continuous integration tool at Tanzanite

Hi,

I have a vague recollection that the Maven continuous integration tool
was going to be used by the Tanzanite developers for their CI needs.
Would it be possible for you to confirm this for me?

Thank you

--
Craig McKenzie
Technical Testing Consultant
Micro to Mainframe
http://www.mtom.co.za