The document outlines continuous delivery as a methodology to enhance software development through automation in building, testing, and deploying. It emphasizes practices such as continuous integration, deployment, and the use of tools like Jenkins, Git, and Maven to improve quality and speed. Additionally, it provides resources for further reading and a comprehensive list of tools supporting these practices.

1. Con$nuous
Delivery
Tools
and
Techniques
Mike
McGarr
mike.mcgarr@excella.com
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@jmichaelmcgarr

2. About
Me
• J.
Michael
(Mike)
McGarr
• Excella
Consul$ng,
Arlington
VA
• Lead
of
Excella’s
Java
Center
of
Excellence
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3. Excella
is
Hiring!
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4. Con$nuous
Delivery
is…
…a
set
of
prac$ces
and
principles
aimed
at,
building,
tes+ng,
and
releasing
soAware
faster
and
more
frequently.
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5. 5

6. Goals
Quality
Cycle
Time
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7. Con$nuous
what?
Continuous Continuous Continuous
Integration Delivery Deployment
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8. Con$nuous
Deployment
Build
Pipelines
Deployment
Automa$on
Configura$on
Con$nuous
Tes$ng
Management
Integra$on
Agile
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9. Developers
http://flic.kr/p/5cK2
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10. Version
Control
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11. Build
Automa$on
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12. Unit
Tes$ng
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13. JUnit,
Hamcrest
&
Mockito
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15. Spock
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16. Test
Driven
Development
http://reddevnews.com/articles/2007/11/01/testdriven-development-tdd.aspx 16

17. Integra$on
Tes$ng
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18. Sta$c
Code
Analysis
CheckStyle
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19. The
Team
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20. Agile
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21. Task
Management
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22. Con$nuous
Integra$on
Check-­‐in
Daily
Commit
to
Trunk
Automate
the
Build
Keep
the
Build
Fast
Every
Commit
results
in
Build
Test
in
Clone
of
Produc$on
Automate
Deployment
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23. Con$nuous
Integra$on
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24. Jenkins
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25. Dependency
Management
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26. Nexus
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27. Technical
Debt
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28. Sonar
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29. Specifica$on
by
Example
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30. Spock
and
Geb
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31. Concordion
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32. Deployment
http://flic.kr/p/y8K
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33. Build
Pipelines
33

34. Single
Iden$fier
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35. Versioning
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36. Code
Deployments
36

37. Database
Management
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39. Run$me
Configura$on
ESCAPE Database
39

40. Infrastructure
Management
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41. Puppet
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42. Vagrant
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43. Op$mizing
http://flic.kr/p/6hDAEK
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44. Evolu$onary
Design
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45. Performance
Tes$ng
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46. Performance
Tes$ng
46

47. Monitoring
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48. Con$nuous
Deployment
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49. Contact
Me
Mike McGarr
mike.mcgarr@excella.com
http://earlyandoften.wordpress.com
@jmichaelmcgarr
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50. Further
Reading
• Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test
and Deployment Automation, by Jez Humble and David Farley -
http://www.amazon.com/Continuous-Delivery-Deployment-Automation-
Addison-Wesley/dp/0321601912
• Test Driven Development (TDD) –
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_development
• Introducing BDD, by Dan North – http://dannorth.net/introducing-bdd/
• Agile Manifesto – http://agilemanifesto.org/
• Scrum – http://www.scrumalliance.org/learn_about_scrum
• Continuous Integration, by Martin Fowler –
http://martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.html
• Specification by Example, by Gojko Adzic -
http://specificationbyexample.com/
• Build Pipelines -
http://www.magpiebrain.com/2009/12/13/a-brief-and-incomplete-
history-of-build-pipelines/
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51. Further
Reading
• Maven Releases on Steriods, by Axel Fontaine –
http://www.axelfontaine.com/2011/01/maven-releases-on-steroids-
adios.html
• What is in a Name? Usually a version number, actually., by James
Betteley -
http://jamesbetteley.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/what-is-in-a-name-
usually-a-version-number-actually/
• Build Once, Deploy Many -
http://earlyandoften.wordpress.com/2010/09/09/build-once-deploy-
many/
• Evolutionary Design - http://martinfowler.com/articles/designDead.html
• Continuous Deployment -
http://timothyfitz.wordpress.com/2009/02/08/continuous-deployment/
• Sonar’s Technical Debt Calculation -
http://www.sonarsource.org/evaluate-your-technical-debt-with-sonar/
• Gherkin - https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber/wiki/Gherkin
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52. Tools
• Git - http://git-scm.com/
• Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/
• Mercurial - http://mercurial.selenic.com/
• Rational ClearCase -
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/clearcase/
• Serena Dimensions CM -
http://www.serena.com/products/dimensions-cm/index.html
• Ant - http://ant.apache.org/
• Ivy - http://ant.apache.org/ivy/
• Maven - http://maven.apache.org/
• Gradle - http://gradle.org/
• JUnit – http://www.junit.org/
• Mockito – http://code.google.com/p/mockito/
• Hamcrest – http://code.google.com/p/hamcrest/
• Spock – http://code.google.com/p/spock/
• dbUnit – http://www.dbunit.org/
• Unitils – http://unitils.org/summary.html
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53. Tools
• Findbugs – http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/
• PMD – http://pmd.sourceforge.net/
• Checkstyle – http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/
• JIRA – http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/overview
• GitHub – https://github.com/
• Jenkins - http://jenkins-ci.org/
• TeamCity – http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/
• Nexus – http://www.sonatype.org/nexus/
• Artifactory – http://www.jfrog.com/products.php
• Sonar – http://www.sonarsource.org/
• FitNesse –
• Concordion – http://www.concordion.org/
• Cucumber – http://cukes.info/
• easyb – http://www.easyb.org/
• jBehave - http://jbehave.org/
• geb - http://www.gebish.org/
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54. Tools
• Liquibase – www.liquibase.org/
• Flyway – http://code.google.com/p/flyway/
• Escape – http://code.google.com/p/escservesconfig/
• Puppet – http://puppetlabs.com/
• Chef – http://www.opscode.com/chef/
• Vagrant – http://vagrantup.com/
• JMeter – http://jmeter.apache.org/
• Nagios - http://www.nagios.org/
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