Long Builds

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Long Builds

  • Fast tests run at 100 per second
  • Selective testing
  • running tests in parallel
  • test ordering
  • profiling tests
  • people do checkstyle before functional tests as feedback is quicker
  • Clover now offers selective testing and test re-ordering to FAIL a build faster. Blog Post
  • question as to when static analysis checks should be run in the build – the consensus that running them first means you get the quickest feedback
  • longer builds should be run nightly so as not to hold up developers
  • prioritising build queues or using different machines sounds like a good idea, but nobody is doing it
  • you can reuse functional tests for performance tests, but targeting specific tests seems to work better
  • Atlassian use JMeter for performance tests and have a variety of Maven and Ant builds, but use Maven for managing repositories
  • Ant is still well regarded, Idea support is awesome, many people do not understand the power of custom ant tasks or the ant idoms
  • the build should be regarded as part of your code
  • discussion about using a Java build tool, such as Hammer and why we can’t articulate why it seems wrong
  • not enough people understand Maven, usually there is “one guy” on the team
  • Vizant is a good tool to graph the build
  • EasyAnt combines all of the Ant idioms plus Ivy