Practical project automation

Practical project automation Reinout van Rees http://www.thehealthagency.com/ http://reinout.vanrees.org

Practical project automation • Practical: tips & pointers, illustrated with examples from The Health Agency • Project: your projects are important, right? • Automation: get help from the computer

Project + repeatable + automatable • Bunch of code • Bunch of configuration • Probably scripts • Collect, inititialize, convert, (compile) • => BUILD TOOLS • Make, scons, a.a.p., buildout • Write buildout extensions • Example: z3c.recipe.usercrontab • Example: tha.recipe.logcheck

z3c.recipe.usercrontab [apachelogcheck-cronjob] recipe = z3c.recipe.usercrontab times = 39 12 * * * command = ${apachelogcheck:command}

tha.recipe.logcheck

Quality control: buildbot + tests • python setup.py test or bin/test • The jackpot: buildbot • Oops, I forgot aaaa • Oops, I forgot bbbb • Oops, I did cccc • Example: content (xml docbook) checking

Buildbot screenshot

Quality control: buildbot + tests • python setup.py test or bin/test • The jackpot: buildbot • Oops, I forgot aaaa • Oops, I forgot bbbb • Oops, I did cccc • Example: content (xml docbook) checking

Quality: make it easy to do the good thing • Small scripts: python instead of shell? • Automate away boring fault-attracting tasks • Example: zest.releaser • Example: tha.coverage • Skeletons (“pastescript”, but see ZopeSkel) • Example: in-company skeletons

zest.releaser

tha.coverage

Quality: make it easy to do the good thing • Small scripts: python instead of shell? • Automate away boring fault-attracting tasks • Example: zest.releaser • Example: tha.coverage • Skeletons (“pastescript”, but see ZopeSkel) • Example: in-company skeletons

Skeleton for namespaced library

Closing comments • Automation is nice work. Fun. • It ensures quality. • Get into the habit: do it also for your own private tasks • It pays of in spades • So: automate your projects • http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog • (Which I also largely automated, of course)

Practical project automation

by Reinout van Rees on Jun 05, 2009

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