Up and Running with Continuous Integration

Continuous integration is as important to successful projects as source code management and unit tests yet many teams go without. This talk will discuss the importance of CI and show you how to get up and running with two popular CI servers: Cruise Control and Hudson. While we typically think of using CI to compile code and run tests, it can handle any timed repetitive task - we'll discuss some things you might want to add into the mix.

Continuous integration is as important to successful projects as source code management and unit tests yet many teams go without. This talk will discuss the importance of CI and show you how to get up and running with two popular CI servers: Cruise Control and Hudson. While we typically think of using CI to compile code and run tests, it can handle any timed repetitive task - we'll discuss some things you might want to add into the mix.

About Nathaniel Schutta

Nathaniel T. Schutta is a software architect and Java Champion focused on cloud computing, developer happiness and building usable applications. A proponent of polyglot programming, Nate has written multiple books, appeared in countless videos and many podcasts. He’s also a seasoned speaker who regularly presents at worldwide conferences, No Fluff Just Stuff symposia, meetups, universities, and user groups. In addition to his day job, Nate is an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota, where he teaches students to embrace (and evaluate) technical change. Driven to rid the world of bad presentations, he coauthored the book Presentation Patterns with Neal Ford and Matthew McCullough, and he also published Thinking Architecturally and Responsible Microservices available from O’Reilly. His latest book, Fundamentals of Software Engineering, is currently available in early release.

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