RE: Cruise Control results?[MESSAGE NOT SCANNED]

[Robbie Gemmell <ge...@dcs.gla.ac.uk>]

CruiseControl is a Continuous Integration tool, it schedules/runs based on
changes/etc 'builds/projects' which are basically just a configuration you
give it to do a job or bunch of jobs....be it run a build, a test, basically
do whatever you like. You can tie in to various build tools like Ant or
Maven directly, or if you have something that runs from the command line you
can just have it run that directly, or run a shell script, or....basically
anything that can be scripted in some fashion or another can be run.

It then reports success/failure based on the outcome of that project
definition, eg if you had it run an Ant process and that failed explicitly
it will tie in to that result outcome and report a failure of the
'build/project', or if a shell script exited with an error code etc. As long
as there is some definition of failure that can be checked then it can
report that in some fashion. If that Ant/Maven/whatever task involved
running JUnit tests for example, you can tell it where the results of the
tests are put and it will pull them into its log file and give you an
overview of all the individual results, alternatively just anything xml can
be merged in. It can publish build artifacts by various means, email results
etc, and you can use its web dashboard and look at past results, inspect the
log outputs, force new builds etc.

It runs on a given machine and only reports results from that machines
configured projects and their executions. You can set it up in a 'grid' to
have results of multiple instances reported back to a single instance, but I
believe that needs shared file system access. 

It isn't just a results store though, so you cant just post results into
another instance. What you could do would be to set up a project in that
instance which monitored something else for change, (eg a file or folder in
a repository) and figure out some way to have it analyse that and report
results, declare success/failure etc.

Im not sure how you would tie it in to do the C++ windows builds directly as
I have absolutely no clue about the windows build process hehe, but the
linux one is easy. Have a look in the qpid/cc dir for the various in-tree CC
projects.

Slight note, things may have changed with CC so things above might be
inaccurate in some way, its been 5 months since I did anything with it hehe.


Robbie

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Huston [mailto:shuston@riverace.com] 
Sent: 30 January 2009 23:28
To: dev@qpid.apache.org
Subject: Cruise Control results?[MESSAGE NOT SCANNED]

I'm looking at making my Windows build results more readily available
and am looking for more info on Cruise Control. I have been reading
the cruise control website, but am still looking for basic
capabilities answers. Is this something that houses results in some
central place everyone can see (ala the ACE scoreboard
(http://acebuilds.riverace.com/scoreboard/)? Is it possible to
contribute results into this?

Thanks,
-Steve


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