Improving Engineering Processes using Hudson - Spark IT 2010

Improving Engineering Process Using Hudson <Insert Picture Here> Arun Gupta, Java EE & GlassFish Guy Oracle Corp http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta, @arungupta

Never send a human to do a machine's job.

Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive.

Rise of Continuous Integration Offload from people, push to computers $ computers people Time

Spend more CPU power to help you First on your laptops and workstations ● ● IDEs are at the forefront And then to the servers ● ● a.k.a. “Continuous Integration” ● More frequent build/test executions ● Static code analysis tools ● And more to come

Hudson (http://hudson-ci.org) ● Open-source CI server ● Emphasis on ease of installation and use ● “java -jar hudson.war” execution ● Or your OS-specific package ● Configure everything from browser ● Extensibility ● 230+ community-developed public plugins ● By 230+ contributors ● Estimated 13,000 installations

"D as hb oa rd [H ud so n] "

Basic Feature Set ● Hudson notices that there is a code change ● Checks out the source code ● CVS, Subversion, ClearCase, Mercurial, Accurev, Perforce, Git, StarTeam, … ● Builds Ant, Maven, shell script, NAnt, … ● Record and publish results ● Tool Integration ● Findbugs, Corbertura, ...

Provides Feedback ● RSS feeds ● Email/IM notification ● Tray application to notify developers ● Linux/Windows (Toolbar), Mac (Growl) ● ...

Why do I care? Life before Hudson ● ● Dev forgets to commit a file ● Nightly build breaks, Testing blocked ● Resources not utilized efficiently Life after Hudson ● ● Hudson will tell you in 5 mins if a build broke ● No one else notices that you forgot to commit a file ;-)

Why do I care? ● Life before Hudson ● Dev makes a change Monday AM ● Test nightly finds a bug Monday night ● Dev fixes it Tuesday ● Again, under utilization of resources Life after Hudson ● ● Dev makes a change Monday AM ● Hudson finds a regression few mins later ● Dev can fix it before lunch

Why do I care? Life before Hudson ● ● Test runs every night, results in e-mail ● Excitement fades after 1 week ● Regressions go unnoticed until it’s too late Life after Hudson ● ● Tests run Hudson after every commit ● E-mail sent out only when tests start failing ● So it manages to keep people’s attention

Matrix projects Run the same thing on ● different environments ● JDKs ● Databases ● OSes ● App servers ● XML parsers ● ... Results aggregated ●

FindBugs integration

Tracking changes 16

… and more Browse workspaces Build time trend report

Inter-Project Support Host many projects on 1 Hudson ● ● 1+1 > 2 You can… ● ● Execute tests separately and correlate them with builds ● Mark builds as “promoted” based on test outcome ● Track which build of libraries are used where ● . . .

Test/Build Separation ●Tests often dominate the build time ●Multiple tests are run in parallel ● Improves turn-around time time JAX-WS #10 JAX-WS #11 JAX-WS #12 … Unit test with GF Unit test with Tomcat SQE test Test w/o 3OS x 2JDK = 6 tests container

Build Promotion CI produces a lot of “successful” builds ● ● Often overwhelming to downstream consumers ●Run tests as fast as you can ●If a build passes tests, promote it 20

Got the idea?  Automation  Reduce turn-around time  Make things transparent  Remove people from the loop  Save people’s time  Push jobs to servers, keep workstations idle for you

Doing Distributed Builds 22

Distributed builds with Hudson Master ● ● Serves HTTP requests slave ● Stores all important info 1 slave slave Slaves ● 8 2 ● 170KB single JAR ● Assumed to be slave slave unreliable 7 Master 3 ● Scale to at least 100 Link ● slave slave 6 4 ● Single bi-di byte stream slave ● No other requirements 5

Automated System Installations ● Hudson + PXE plugin ● ISO images of OS Your corporate IT guy & his DHCP server ● Slaves ● Power on, hit F12 ● PC boots from network (PXE) ● Choose OS from menu ● Installs non-interactively

Automated Tool Installation - JDK JDK from http://java.sun.com/ ● ● Automatically chooses the right bundle ● Always up to date with new releases 25

Automated Tool Installation - Apache  Ant and Maven from Apache 26

Heterogeneous Cluster Challenge  Builds/tests need to run in specific environment  Dependency on individual nodes hurts utilization jobs slaves Wombat Windows Windows test #1 GlassFish Windows Windows test #2 Hudson Solaris Windows test #1 Hudson Solaris test

Labels to rescue  Label is a group of slaves  Tie jobs to labels jobs slaves Wombat Windows Windows test #1 Windows GlassFish Windows Windows test #2 Hudson Solaris Windows test #1 Solaris Hudson Windows Solaris test #3

Forecasting failures Hudson monitors key health metrics of ● slaves ● Low disk space, insufficient swap ● Clock out of sync ● Extensible Slaves go offline automatically ●

Load Statistics Monitoring

When it’s time to add more slaves 31

Hudson EC2 plugin Automatically provisions slaves on EC2 on ● demand ● Based on the current load ●Picks the right AMI depending on demand ●Starts slave agent ●Shuts down unused instances Can run Hudson master in the cloud too ●

And a lot more . . .  IDE plugins  iPhone/Android apps  REST API and CLI  Deployment Automation  Hadoop, Selenium  …

HUMANS: ALL YOUR COMPUTER ARE BELONG TO US

Conclusions CI is here to stay ● ● Using lots of PCs is a key Hudson is very easy to get started ● ● Once started, there is a lot you can do hudson-ci.org ●

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