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Perl Continous Integration
The document discusses various continuous integration (CI) tools available in Perl, including CruiseControl, Buildbot, Tinderbox, Cabie, and Smolder, highlighting their features, limitations, and use cases. Each tool has unique characteristics, such as distributed capabilities or integration with version control systems, along with some complaints regarding their complexity or lack of support. The author envisions an ideal CI tool that combines the strengths of Smolder and Buildbot into a more effective and flexible system.
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- 1. Continuous Integration Tools in Perl Michael Peters Plus Three, LP YAPC::NA 10 Pittsburgh, PA
- 2. What is CI? ●Buildand test all the time ●As soon as you can ●As loud as you can ●On as many platforms as you need ●On as many different configurations as you need
- 3. What is CI? ●Homegrown (bash + email) ●CruiseControl ●Buildbot ●Tinderbox ●CABIE ●Smolder Hudson, TeamCity, Continuum, Cerberus, ControlTier, ● OpenMake Mojo, lots of others
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- 5. CruiseControl ●http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/ ●Java based ●Very wellknown, "industry standard" ●Lots of plugins for lots of things ● SCM ● Notification ● Build management (make, Ant, Maven, rake) ● Lots more
- 6. CruiseControl ●Web UI ● View old builds/tests ● See what CruiseControl is doing right now ● Is it checking out code? ● Is it building? ●Build Loop Daemon ● Separate process to do the heavy lifting
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- 8. CruiseControl Limitations and Complaints ● Not Perl (Java) ● Run loop is on a single machine ● They are working on distributed ● Format is not a standard ● Yes it's XML, but... ● Whatever JUnit spits out
- 9. CruiseControl Limitations and Complaints ● Not Perl (Java) ● Run loop is on a single machine ● They are working on distributed ● Format is not a standard ● Yes it's XML, but... ● Whatever JUnit spits out ● All Java and all XML
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- 11. Buildbot ●http://buildbot.net/trac ●Python based ●Designed tobe distributed ● master/slave architecture ● nice for OSS projects and volunteers ●Tracks some metrics over time ● warnings ● link checks ● compile time ● etc
- 12. Buildbot ●Lots of notificationchannels ● Email ● IRC bot (real time insults) ● GTk app ●Lots of built-in support for CSMs ● CVS, svn, perforce, Bonsai, git, Mercurial, Bazaar, ●Web UI ●CLI
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- 14. Buildbot Limitations and Complaints ● Not Perl (Python) ● Sometimes too heavy ● Ugggggly ● It's complicated ● Configuration is all Python ● Format is not standard ● Whatever your test spits out and returns ● Developer's can't customize notifications for themselves ● No detailed breakdown of test failures
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- 16. Tinderbox ●http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tinderbox ●Perl based ●Mozilla Project ● currently being rewritten ● used for Firefox, Thunderbird, etc ● Integrates with Bugzilla ● Only supports CVS ●Add comments to build runs ●Currently being rewritten ● Seems to use Buildbot underneath
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- 18. Tinderbox Limitations and Complaints ● No packages, no releases (grab from CVS) ● Not much support ● from Mozilla ● nor the Perl community ● Just does CVS ● Developers can't customize their notifications ● Kind of ugly
- 19. Tinderbox Limitations and Complaints ● Format is not standard append 3: object count 10 = 10 OK array count 13 = 13 OK 0: 3=3 (0x84f9540) c: 4 OK 1: 0=0 (0x84f9510) c: 1 OK 2: 1=1 (0x84f9520) c: 1 OK 3: 2=2 (0x84f9530) c: 1 OK 4: 3=3 (0x84f9540) c: 4 OK 5: 4=4 (0x84f9550) c: 1 OK 6: 3=3 (0x84f9540) c: 4 OK 7: 5=5 (0x84f9560) c: 1 OK 8: 6=6 (0x84f9570) c: 1 OK 9: 7=7 (0x84f9580) c: 1 OK 10: 8=8 (0x84f9590) c: 1 OK 11: 9=9 (0x84f95e8) c: 1 OK 12: 3=3 (0x84f9540) c: 4 OK
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- 21. CABIE ●http://cabie.tigris.org/ ●Perl based ●Web UIand CLI tools ●Job daemon ● scheduled build jobs ● job priority ● job triggers ●Data stored in MySQL ●Email notification
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- 23. CABIE Limitations and Complaints ● No installer ● Format is not standard ● Whatever text your build/test spit out and return ● It's ugly too ● No community support
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- 25. Smolder ●http://github.com/mpeters/smolder/tree/master ●Perl based ●Web UI ●SomeCLI tools ●CPAN installable ●Public and Private ● understands projects ● understands developers ●Being used for Parrot VM project
- 26. Smolder ●View detailed reportsabout exactly what failed ● Ajax/on-demand ● Much easier to find what went wrong ●All reports are submitted TAP Archives ●All data stored in SQLite ●Notification channels ● Email ● Atom ●Tags ●Trend reporting
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- 29. Smolder Limitations and Complaints ● Fair number of dependecies ● 44 deps ● 132 deps of deps of deps... ● HTTP::Server::Simple isn't very reliable ● Hard coded notification options (only email and Atom) ● No plugins for extra features ● No integration with other systems
- 30. Smolder Limitations and Complaints ● No integrated build system ● simple bash script + cron ● SmokeRunner::Multi ● Module::Build::Smolder ● No notifications of build failures
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- 32. My Dream Date ●Smolderand Buildbot sitting in a tree... ●Separate, but integrated build loop and reporting ●Build status and detailed test reporting ●Optionally distributed for multiple platforms and parallel builds ●Standard formats ● TAP ● Something for the build notifications
- 33. My Dream Date Pluggablearchitecture ● ● Notifications (email, twitter, building alarm system) ● SCM support ● Common build systems (make, Makefile.PL, Build.PL, Ant, Maven, rake) ●Expose the TAP metadata for plugins to use ● Link to bug reports ● Link to source code or specs ● visual diffs ●Installable via CPAN ●Packagable for distros
- 34. Continuous Integration Tools in Perl Michael Peters Plus Three, LP ¿? All comics borrowed from Toothpaste For Dinner http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/