Category Archives: Continuous Integration

My new gig – Sauce Labs

Posted on March 23, 2010 by

After almost two years of working at Slide Inc, I have started my new job at Sauce Labs. The press release can be found here: “Sauce Labs Adds Windmill Test Framework Co-Creator Adam Christian to Engineering Team“. Slide Inc. I had a fantastic experience and learned a ton working with the really talented team of engineers, artists and product managers over at Slide. It was incredibly educational to work in an environment where so many people use your product everyday. … Continue reading →

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Considering in-house web automation?

Posted on March 2, 2010 by

Recently I have had numerous conversations with people at various tiers of companies all over the place who are toying with the idea of building their own test automation and continuous integration infrastructure. Since I have spent a considerable amount of time dealing with such undertakings I decided that it might be worth the time to brain dump some of the issues you may want to consider before you dive in. Choosing Tools Boxes, VM’s or Cloud? A common first … Continue reading →

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Windmill Plugin for Hudson

Posted on May 11, 2009 by

Over the last 6+ months, I have been using Hudson in conjunction with Windmill very heavily for continuous integration. For the most part using the build step specific to whatever the slave OS requires has worked sufficiently well until recently when my needs changed. I use the ‘configuration matrix’ option to build a matrix of browsers to run the tests, this way I can have one job that represents a test run on multiple boxes and multiple browsers on each … Continue reading →

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PyCon 2009 Recap

Posted on April 13, 2009 by

Getting back in the swing of things after conferencing for weeks can be pretty painful, thus the lateness of the post. However I think it’s important to go over some thoughts still lingering in my brain as a result. First off, I have to say that for those of you who don’t know, PyCon is a community organized event, and amazingly well done. I was impressed by the design of the conference, the way they had four talks going on … Continue reading →

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Diving into GIT

Posted on November 25, 2008 by

Over the last year, I have known that the day would come when I could no longer avoid moving from SVN (my comfort zone) to this new beast called GIT that everyone is so excited about. My first hour, which was installing it on my Mac and pulling down a repo to play with was very pleasant. My ssh keys and ~/.ssh/config was already setup the way I wanted and everything just worked. The pain began when I started in … Continue reading →

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Zero to Continuous Integration with Windmill

Posted on September 19, 2008 by

Following ‘automation’ and ‘continuous integration’ in the micro blogging world I have seen a major influx in people being super interested in functionally automating their web apps. I have seen a slew of things about Grid, and Selenium, and people hacking on Watir so I decided to show you from the ground up how incredibly easy it is to get automated test running setup using Windmill and Hudson. I am not going to walk you through every detail, this is … Continue reading →

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