Hudson Continuous Integration in Practice

Best Practices for Implementing Continuous Integration with Hudson

Optimize productivity while reducing risk and complexity by adopting a highly agile, “automate everything” software design philosophy. Hudson Continuous Integration in Practice shows you how to streamline and stabilize each process in your development lifecycle. Get expert tips for deploying a Hudson server, managing test and reporting frameworks, using source code management (SCM), and incorporating third-party CI tools. Distributed builds, plugin development, and system administration are also covered in this Oracle Press guide.

• Install, configure, and secure Hudson
• Automate build, integration, release, and deployment processes
• Set up jobs and add SCM from the Web-based GUI
• Administer QA tools, issue trackers, and build notifiers
• Incorporate IDEs, browsers, desktops, and mobile devices
• Publish Hudson build artifacts to Oracle Middleware utilities
• Work with plug-in manager and develop your own plugins
• Create custom dashboards and organize your jobs with views
• Develop a custom publisher, recorder, and notifier for your jobs

Table of Contents

Part I: Essential Knowledge
Chapter 1: Getting Started
Chapter 2: Hudson Precondition Primer
Chapter 3: Basic Concepts

Part II: Applying Hudson
Chapter 4: Hudson as a Continuous Integration Server
Chapter 5: Hudson and Automated Testing
Chapter 6: Hudson as Part of Your Tool Suite
Chapter 7: Distributed Building Using Hudson
Chapter 8: Basic Plugin Development

Part III: The Hudson Lifestyle
Chapter 9: Advanced Plugin Development
Chapter 10: Hudson Best Practices

Part IV: Appendixes
Appendix A: Widely Used Hudson Plugins
Appendix B: Personal Hudson Instance
Appendix C: Hudson for Windows Developers