Continuous Integration and Drupal
Submitted by joshk on June 9, 2009 - 21:40
Your session in a few words:
A real-world presentation on how to bulletproof your Drupal development process with EC2, Hudson, Simpletest, Selenium and JMeter
Date:
September 4, 2009 - 11:20 - 12:10
Room:
La Galerie
Track:
Code it, test it, deploy it
Session Type:
Panel
Level of expertise:
Intermediate
Language:
English Note: this description needs to be updated.
Austin Smith, David Strauss, Josh Koenig, Stewart Robinson and Moshe Weitzman present real-world lessons learned and practical how-to examples for creating a robust Continuous Integration environment for enterprise-level Drupal development.
This talk will briefly explain the concept and value Continuous Integration (CI), but focus primarily on the nuts and bolts challenges and techniques of getting a CI environment working with Drupal. The touchstone for our presentation is a case-study of the infrastructure developed by The Economist Group (economist.com) to utilize four teams in five timezones from London to California to effectively collaborate on developing a complex, high performance Drupal application.
Specific topics we will cover include:
- Continuous integration overview: what it is, how it works,why it rocks
- Using Amazon EC2 to build a low-cost testing cluster
- Configuring Hudson to manage your integration processes
- Triggering simpletests for automatic unit testing
- Using jMeter to benchmark your application
- Setting up selenium for functional testing with multiple browsers
Co presenters:
Sweet
This is a session I'd hate to miss, good to see the best practices getting some limelight!
Note
This session is being expanded to also include a review of the exciting and innovative testing.drupal.org infrastructure, so it won't be all-Economist all-the-time.
What's meant by the "panel" session type?
I'm very interested in this topic; just a little confused what's meant by the "Panel" session type.
Continuous Integration with Hudson and Olio
Josh, et al,
As I mentioned to you, project Olio might be a more productive test automator/load generator than JMeter. It's still a bit immature, but worth looking at. I might give a crack at it myself, and can certainly put you in touch with the core maintainers.
-Scott