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Web application projects and build server issues
Published 07-20-2007 10:52 AM | jokiz
Normally, you don't have Visual Studio installed in build servers. Unless you're using the setup and deployment package which can only be compiled by the IDE executable devenv.exe, that's the time that you install VS. As such, you only have...
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insufficient test code coverage -> broken build
Published 05-25-2007 10:04 AM | jokiz
i agree that incorporating code coverage criteria in your build scripts is very restrictive, but you have no choice if your team is just starting out doing tdd or writing plain automated unit tests. how can you force them to learn to write automated unit...
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TDD-CI environment work - definitely a plus
Published 02-07-2007 5:29 PM | jokiz
We still have a job advertisement for a C# developer and one of the requirements is experience in agile software development using T est- D riven D evelopment and C ontinuous I ntegration setup. You can hardly find a .NET company in the Philippines which...
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Generate DB script using NAnt's copy-replacetokens task
Published 02-05-2007 8:03 PM | jokiz
most of our .NET projects has a database project with three scripts in it, (1) create database script, (2) database shema script and the (3) default data script. for our pre-release, we packaged the database creation with default data in our Installshield...
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working around a project with minimal unit tests
Published 01-30-2007 9:40 PM | jokiz
coming from a project with number of unit tests in it (hundreds i believe), it's hard to work around our current project without it. we're near the release of the project and we still have 31 unit and integration test cases for the .NET client application...
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Saved by an automated test
Published 12-09-2006 2:44 AM | jokiz
Last week, I was assigned to fix a bug in my first project in my current company. The said application was released months ago and is currently being used by our client. Initially, the fix was just to move a particular line of code just above a conditional...
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CCTray rocks
Published 12-03-2006 8:52 PM | jokiz
I have been using CruiseControl.NET for a 10 months now and i love it. The only thing that puzzles me is why the java counterpart still does not have a client application like CCTray which just parks at the system tray and gives out build status notifications...
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holidays are ideal work days for build masters
Published 10-24-2006 5:43 PM | jokiz
it is currently a public holiday today (end of ramadan) and i decided to come to work in the afternoon to do some changes on our build server and subversion repository. you can't really do some changes on the development servers on regular working days...
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XmlLogger issue with NAnt
Published 10-23-2006 1:01 PM | jokiz
For a long time now, our Cruise Control .NET dashboard is inconsistently generating NAnt outputs and timings reports. Sometimes, it was generated, sometimes a message of "Please make sure that NAnt is executed using the XmlLogger (use the argument: -logger...
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Longer build time
Published 10-17-2006 4:31 PM | jokiz
As we progress on our current project, our unit tests have now reached the thousand mark. Although some are poorly written (some hits the database), our build time has increased past the default NAnt task for CCNET of 10 minutes. It used to build less...
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assemblyversion - revision number before build number
Published 08-17-2006 11:40 AM | jokiz
although msdn docs say that the proper format for assembly version is <major version>.<minor version>.<build number>.<revision> i was surprised that our current project is using a different format which is used by the nant build...
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referencing gac assemblies will result to broken build
Published 07-28-2006 1:15 PM | jokiz
i was creating this excel workbook reader module so i referenced the excel com interop assembly which resulted in a failing build in our build server minutes after i commit. the problem is because the said assembly is in my machine's global assembly cache...
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safe commit with continuous integration
Published 07-19-2006 10:33 PM | jokiz
whenever i have a major change in our projects (e.g. add, remove, rename files), i always try to check if i've broken something by running a nant build locally. everybody here is monitoring our build server and it is a bad impression to break something...
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