CruiseControl.NET

It’s All Changing! I was chatting with one of the other developers on the CruiseControl.NET project yesterday. During the chat he mentioned he was concerned about how much things have changed from 1.4.4 to 1.5.0, and that he was having a hard time keeping up with all the changes. So, in this post I’ll cover one of [...]

An Introduction On the mailing list there was a question today about the parts of the dashboard and how they match up with the configuration. So I thought it’s time for me to write down what I know about the parts of the dashboard and how they work. First, there are four basic levels to the dashboard. [...]

That’s an Old One Now that 1.4 is officially finished, it’s time to start gearing up for 1.5. Already we have a large range of improvements (security, dynamic parameters, communications improvements, etc.) However, while these improvements are nice ... [More] , we also need to review any outstanding issues to see what we can resolve. One of my pet dislikes [...] [Less]

Is Your Code Covered? One of the important metrics for TDD is code coverage – how much of the code base is actually being tested by unit tests. It’s not the only metric (even with 100% coverage you can’t guarantee that everything will be perfect), but it is a reasonably easy metric to measure. There are various [...]

Introducing Ohloh Ohloh is a social site for open-source development – it allows developers to track what is happening with their projects, to “toot their horns” so to speak. Their website is at http://www.ohloh.net/ – and you can even see ... [More] CruiseControl.NET on there (https://www.ohloh.net/p/cruisecontrol). Some More Stats Since we are both open source projects, I thought I’d add [...] [Less]

What Was Past One of the changes that I recently added to CruiseControl.NET (for the 1.5 release) is a common communications library. This project is a cut-down version of Remote – I stripped out everything that had nothing to do with communications ... [More] (e.g. exceptions, NetReflector, lots of interfaces, etc.) The aim for this library is simple – [...] [Less]

Some New Exciting Functionality In the 1.5.0 release we are adding the ability to define dynamic build parameters. A dynamic build parameter is a value that can change for different builds – and it can be set by the user when they perform a force build. This addresses a simple issue in the current CruiseControl.NET – if [...]

Some Background In CruiseControl.NET we have a file merge task. This task will load one or more files and merge them into a single XML document. From this document the reports get generated. Recently we made some changes to CruiseControl.NET to allow reports and report artefacts to come from a different location, which now allows images and [...]