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Michael Kimsal's Blog: PHP Continuous Integration with phpUnderControl

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:18:20 -0500

Michael Kimsal has put together a small page to help you get started using the phpUnderControl continuous integration system:

If you're not using phpUnderControl, you owe it to yourself to check it out, as I think 'continuous integration' will likely change the way you think of development. I've used CruiseControl in the past for PHP, but the PHP-specifics phpUnderControl brings to the project are too much to pass up.

The page mentions some of the common issues you might have in getting started - installation problem, the use of the PHP Code Sniffer and the Project Mess Detector from PHPUnit.

Raphael Stolt's Blog: Hooking a Growl publisher plugin into Xinc

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:59:47 -0500

Raphael Stolt, with some time on his hands, set up a local copy of Xinc, the "shiny new Continuous Integration(CI) server" as hosted on the Google code site and spent some time working with it:

Since then the idea of building a Growl publisher plugin for Xinc was traveling my mind repeatedly, so the following post will break this circle and show a possible approach to build such a plugin, which can be used to notify the build result for continuously integrated projects and thereby provide an on-point/immediate feedback.

He includes the plugin class (ready for cut&paste) as well as the task definition and how to hook it all in to the Xinc build system. There's also a little example of it in action - a happy/sad indicator showing if the build failed or was a success, right there on the desktop.

Sebastian Bergmann's Blog: On PHPUnit and Software Metrics

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:31:00 -0600

In one of his latest entries, Sebastian Bergmann answers a question from another blogger about the future of software metrics and project mess detection as a part of the PHPUnit project.

When I started to work on these projects, there was no other place for me then to develop them as part of PHPUnit. [...] But the more I thought about it, I realized that these features do not belong into PHPUnit but into a suite of tools that PHPUnit is a well-integrated part of.

He did, however, include it as a part of the PHPUnit 3.2 release at that time. Now, however, there are the tools and platforms to make those tests useful outside of the PHPUnit environment and is allowing him to move it out from the testing application and on to closer integration with other software.

Sebastian Bergmann's Blog: Support for PHPUnit in Parabuild

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:14:00 -0500

Sebastian Bergmann quickly notes the support that's been added to Parabuild for PHPUnit:

Viewtier Systems is looking for testers of their new support for PHPUnit in their Parabuild software build and release management system. I am excited that a company such as Viewtier Systems realizes that there is a market for their product in the PHP space and adapts their tool to work well with existing tools such as PHPUnit in that space.

Parabuild is a software build and release management system that helps software teams and organizations reduce risks of project failures by providing Continuous Integration and delivering practically unbreakable nightly builds.

If you would like to sign up as a beta tester, all of the information is here.