continuous integration

Continuous integration is one of these topics that had a slow start, but in recent years has really taken off. The slow start is likely to be attributed to the fact that it was perceived as hard to setup and maintain.

But solutions around Jenkins and Sismo are making it easier and easier. But thanks to the new Travis CI service, its now essentially so easy that there is no excuse not to use CI for PHP projects, at least if you are hosting your OSS code on github.com.

This July I am going to present at OSCON in Portland again:

In my Beyond Frameworks talk, I explained how a component-based architecture can help

This white paper explores the challenges of continuous integration in the enterprise and looks at the characteristics of an Enterprise CI tool. Learn more.

Sebastian Bergmann has a new post to his blog today talking about the Jenkins template he's put together to help PHP projects get started quickly with the popular continuous integration tool (formerly Hudson).

If you were at the PHP Benelux conference last weekend, you probably saw several talks, including mine, that mentioned using Jenkins as a Continuous Integration server.

Most web applications are changed and adapted quite frequently and quickly. Their environment, for example the size and the behaviour of the user base, are constantly changing.

What was sufficient yesterday can be insufficient today. Especially in a web environment it is important to monitor and continuously improve the internal quality not only when developing, but also when maintaining the software.

In this new post to his blog Volker Dusch gives you a quick guide to setting up Jenkins (formerly Hudson) for your continuous integration environment.

Packt: "This article by Daniel Arbuckle, author of Python Testing, introduces code coverage and continuous integration, and teaches how to tie automated testing into version control systems."

Cinder is a plug-in for your eclipse-based IDE (eclipse, Zend Studio, etc.) to display results of your Continuous Integration environment right inside your IDE.

We just released version 0.1.6, which you can install via the Eclipse Update Manager and the URL http://opensource.mayflower.de/cinder, then activating it via "Window -> Show View -> Other -> Cinder".

If you haven't heard of Cinder yet, here's a short summary: