Monthly Archives: April 2009

Enterprise Build and Test in the Cloud code available

Posted on by Carlos Sanchez
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The code accompanying the slides Enterprise Build and Test in the Cloud is available at the appfuse-selenium github page.

Provides a Selenium test environment for Maven projects, Appfuse as an example. Allows to run Selenium tests as part of the Maven build, either in an specific container and browser or launching the tests in parallel in several browsers at the same time.

For more information check my slides on Enterprise Build and Test in the Cloud and the blog entries Enterprise Build and Test in the Cloud with Selenium I and Enterprise Build and Test in the Cloud with Selenium II.

By default it’s configured to launch 3 browsers in parallel, Internet Explorer, Firefox 2 and 3

Check src/test/resources/testng.xml for the configuration.

In the single browser option you could do

  • Testing in Jetty 6 and Firefox

    • mvn install

  • Testing in Internet Explorer

    • mvn install -Pjetty6x,iexplore

  • Testing with any browser

    • mvn install
      -Pjetty6x,otherbrowser -DbrowserPath=path/to/browser/executable

  • Start the server (no tests
    running, good for recording tests)

    • mvn package cargo:start

ApacheCON slides: “Enterprise Build and Test in the Cloud” and “Eclipse IAM, Maven integration for Eclipse”

Posted on by Carlos Sanchez
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Here you have the slides from my talks at ApacheCON

Enterprise Build and Test in the Cloud

Building and testing software can be a time and resource consuming task. Cloud computing / on demand services like Amazon EC2 allow a cost-effective way to scale applications, and applied to building and testing software can reduce the time needed to find and correct problems, meaning a reduction also in time and costs. Properly configuring your build tools (Maven, Ant,…), continuous integration servers (Continuum, Cruise Control,…), and testing tools (TestNG, Selenium,…) can allow you to run all the build/testing process in a cloud environment, simulating high load environments, distributing long running tests to reduce their execution time, using different environments for client or server applications,… and in the case of on-demand services like Amazon EC2, pay only for the time you use it.
In this presentation we will introduce a development process and architecture using popular open source tools for the build and test process such as Apache Maven or Ant for building, Apache Continuum as continuous integration server, TestNG and Selenium for testing, and how to configure them to achieve the best results and performance in several typical use cases (long running testing processes, different client platforms,…) by using he Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud EC2, and therefore reducing time and costs compared to other solutions.

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Eclipse IAM, Maven integration for Eclipse

Eclipse IAM (Eclipse Integration for Apache Maven), formerly “Q for Eclipse”, is an Open Source project that integrates Apache Maven and the Eclipse IDE for faster, more agile, and more productive development. The plugin allows you to run Maven from the IDE, import existing Maven projects without intermediate steps, create new projects using Maven archetypes, synchronize dependency management, search artifact repositories for dependencies that are automatically downloaded, view a graph of dependencies and more! Join us to discover how to take advantage of all these features, as well as how they can help you to improve your development process.

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