The document discusses the importance of continuous integration (CI) tools in enhancing DevOps capabilities for process-based application development. It highlights how businesses increasingly rely on custom applications and the need for agility in application lifecycles, advocating for the adoption of CI practices to ensure quality and efficiency in updates. Finally, it emphasizes Bonitasoft's role in providing the necessary tools to facilitate CI for living applications and improve overall digital transformation efforts.

1. Continuous Integration
Tools to empower DevOps in
process-based application
development
Charles Souillard
COO

2. Charles Souillard
• Co-founded Bonitasoft in 2009
• Chief Technology Officer 2009-2015
• Chief Operating Officer today

3. What we know to be true:
the future lies in business applications
• Generic software cannot answer all needs
• Businesses depend on custom applications
to get the job done and maintain competitive
advantage
• Applications demand is remaking
the BPM industry

4. Adapt or die!
• Application lifecycles are getting shorter and business needs
are changing faster
• Fortunately, maturing technology supports
the business need for greater agility
• BPM can take advantage of
cutting-edge tools
to ease digital transformation

5. Bonitasoft introduces living applications.
Create and continuously update business applications
Business Data
Business objects and Data
Model
User Interfaces
Mobile, Web Pages, Forms, Look
& feel, Menus, Analytics
Business Logic
Processes, Connectors, Scripts,
Actors, Rules, Events,
Parameters
+ +

6. Processes
Bonita BPM enables live update
Applications
Data model
Pages
REST API
extensions
Connectors
Forms
Parameters
ScriptsActors
Themes
Layouts
BPM
Engine

7. But…
With great power,
comes great responsibility

8. How to ensure that changes
do not introduce regressions?
How to test processes
from end to end?

9. The answer is clearly not manual testing!
• It takes too long.
• It’s not scalable.
• It’s not reproducible.

10. The solution
• Hey BPM, there’s no need to re-invent the wheel…
• The software industry already has a best practice:
Continuous Integration

11. How does CI relate to BPM?
• A business process can be viewed as a complex algorithm
with different execution paths
• This similarity makes it perfectly adapted to automated
testing

12. When you can apply CI to business processes,
• You can limit the risk of regressions
• You save time compared to manual testing
• You guarantee that your processes can be deployed at any
time

13. Continuous Integration empowers
Living Applications
• By facilitating Continuous Integration we help DevOps to
o ensure the quality of their builds
o quickly & safely apply live updates on their platform
o maintain Living applications over time
• This acts as digital transformation catalyst

14. So let’s do it.
• Although CI is a best practice, not everyone adheres to it
• Let’s make DevOps’ life easier by
providing the right tooling that
will help them,
and let’s use cutting edge technology

15. Leveraging the power of

16. What we provide

17. Test platform
Project repository
CI platform
Our continuous integration process
1. Checkout & build
3. Run tests
2. Deploy project

18. What can be tested?
• Process
• Connectors
• REST API extensions
• Forms and application pages

19. Continuous Integration with Bonita BPM:
Demo
• Order management application for e-commerce
• Test scenarios
• CI build

20. Visit us online
bonitasoft.com
Join our community
community.bonitasoft.com
Download
bonitasoft.com/downloads
Follow us on twitter
@Bonitasoft
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