How We Build Confidence with

Continuous Integration and

Automated Testing

Introduction

• Gareth Marland

• Senior Developer at Rand Worldwide

• Clarity for Revit Server

• Cahoot – http://www.yourcohort.com

The Problem

• Small development team

• No dedicated testing team

The Problem

• Unit Tests

▫ Good at testing code and logic

▫ Unit tests can’t be ran on views

• Regression testing is always problematic

Our Solution

• A combination of 2 things:

▫ Continuous integration

▫ Automated front end testing

Continuous Integration

• What is continuous integration

▫ Builds, runs unit tests and deploys every check in

▫ Test is wiped

▫ Sandbox for stable versions and testing

• We maintain 3 server Build, Test and Sandbox

• Constant testing of new features

Front End Testing

• Test the front end functionality of the site

• Easy to create using the Firefox plugin

• Export and add detail in code

• Selenium - http://seleniumhq.org/

Demo

Front End Testing

• Add to the continuous build script to run every check in

• Combined with regular unit tests you automatically catch it coming and going

Conclusion

• Continuous integration allows us to constantly test newly added features

• Front end tests give confidence

• Sleep easy

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