Achieving Continuous Integration with Tibco BusinessWorks Vijay Narayanan http:// softwarereuse.wordpress.com /

Vijay Narayanan

http:// softwarereuse.wordpress.com /

Technologies Involved Tibco BusinessWorks Apache Ant Apache Axis & XML Beans JUnit Subversion for source code control CruiseControl for Java

Tibco BusinessWorks

Apache Ant

Apache Axis & XML Beans

JUnit

Subversion for source code control

CruiseControl for Java

Your team’s passion for quality code, defect detection, and prevention

Act I - Using simple, effective test tools Used command line tools for smoke testing deployments on a development environment via XML message payloads It was super easy to run and very effective in testing web services against BusinessWorks - We usually ran it after deploying our BusinessWorks engine on the Server

Used command line tools for smoke testing deployments on a development environment via XML message payloads

It was super easy to run and very effective in testing web services against BusinessWorks - We usually ran it after deploying our BusinessWorks engine on the Server

Act II - Automated Tests Used Apache Axis2 & XML Beans to generate web service stub classes and run each test case as a JUnit test case Created generic ant scripts for compiling JUnit tests and reporting test results using JUnitReport Ran our full battery of test cases as an automated Ant script daily. This was a manual event…

Used Apache Axis2 & XML Beans to generate web service stub classes and run each test case as a JUnit test case

Created generic ant scripts for compiling JUnit tests and reporting test results using JUnitReport

Ran our full battery of test cases as an automated Ant script daily. This was a manual event…

Act III - Cruising with Continuous Integrations Found on the web a Apache Ant script for deploying and starting BusinessWorks engine on windows Tibco Administrator Integrated CruiseControl with Subversion to build and deploy our ‘latest’ processes and JUnit to run our automated tests on a continuous basis

Found on the web a Apache Ant script for deploying and starting BusinessWorks engine on windows Tibco Administrator

Integrated CruiseControl with Subversion to build and deploy our ‘latest’ processes and JUnit to run our automated tests on a continuous basis

Continuous Integration High Level Steps

Some Sample Screenshots

JUnit Results Summary Email

CruiseControl Dashboard

3 Key Benefits Confidence that your processes work as expected prior to your client discovering broken code/functionality Agility – Upgraded to newer version of Tibco iProcess within a week Defect detection and prevention - discovered and fixed 600+ defects before deploying to server environment!

Confidence that your processes work as expected prior to your client discovering broken code/functionality

Agility – Upgraded to newer version of Tibco iProcess within a week

Defect detection and prevention - discovered and fixed 600+ defects before deploying to server environment!

But the biggest benefit...

Is a charged up team ready to change, improve, and support the code base on a continuous basis!