AnthillPro

Achieving SDLC Best Practices with AnthillPro and CI

Chris Flanigan Neil McComb 05/14/2009

Anthill Achieving Best Practices

Best Practice
Triggered CI Build Automated Testing Test Coverage Code Analysis

Benefits
Reduces Risk Ensure Quality Ensure Quality Ensure Quality

Separation of Duties
Hashing Artifacts Managing Dependencies Process Automation

Reduces Risk
Reduces Risk Reduces Risk Increased Efficiency

CI Best Practice
Before Continuous Integration:
Numerous development changes over long period of time without SCM commit

Builds executed manually without a build/deploy/test/release tool Build often fails

Test scenarios often fail and not run often due to manual intervention
Dev Team must now find and fix the code Delays to the project schedules occur.

CI Best Practice
AnthillPro implementing Continuous Integration 1. Dev Team integrates source code changes continuously. 2. Dev Team receives quick feedback of build, test, and analysis results. 3. Since the changes were just made, the problems are much easier found and fixed. 4. Code base becomes stable, quality increased, and project risk decreases.
SCM Repository

4. Checkout Source 1. Integrate Code

Build Server
2. Trigger DEV Build

Developer

6. Notification minutes later: Results, Reports, Trending

Anthill Server

3. Build

5. Compile, UnitTest, TestCoverage, CodeAnalysis

AnthillPro Tool Integration

Action
Triggered Build

Tool
SCM Build JUnit NUnit Cobertura Emma FindBugs PMD CheckStyle Instant Feedback

Details
Harvest, CVSNT, Clearcase, Subversion Ant, NAnt, Maven http://junit.sourceforge.net/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/nunit http://cobertura.sourceforge.net http://emma.sourceforge.net/ http://findbugs.sourceforge.net http://pmd.sourceforge.net/ http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/ Email IM

Unit Tests

Code Coverage

Bug Scan

Standards Scan Notification Scheme

* Bold items are Open Source tools used in this demo

Savings
Action Triggered Build Unit Tests Type Reduces Risk Ensure Quality Savings Increases Build Success Promotes Frequent Check-ins Fewer Production issues

Code Coverage Bug Scan

Standards Scan

Ensure Quality Ensure Quality

Ensure Quality

Fewer Production issues Fewer Production issues

Fewer Production issues Quicker failure turnaround

Notification Scheme Fast Feedback

AnthillPro and CI

Demo

AnthillPro Integrated Software

Repositories
Accurev CVS ClearCase Dimensions File System Harvest Integrity Maven Mercurial PVCS Perforce StarTeam Subversion Synergy TFS VSS Vault

Builders
Ant/NAnt Make Maven MSBuild

Defect Tracking
Bugzilla ClearQuest JIRA Maven PVCS Tracker Quality Center Rally TeamTrack Version One Team Foundation Server ViewVC VMWare Lab Manager

Automated Testing
Agitar CppUnit JUnit Mercury NUnit Selenium Silk Central Test Manager

Test Coverage
Clover Cobertura Emma

Tools not listed can still be executed and have their reports published by AnthillPro

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