The document discusses tools for an effective software factory, focusing on Maven for build automation, Mercurial for source control, Jira for issue tracking, and Hudson for continuous integration. It emphasizes that Hudson is a key tool that it cannot live without, as it allows automatically running tests and quality analysis tools like Cobertura, FindBugs, CheckStyle, and PMD/CPD on each change to the codebase.

1. Toolsfor an ef ective
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software factory
(I can't live without Hudson)
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2. Agenda
• Why am I doing this?
• Maven
• Mercurial
• Jira *
• Hudson
• Conclusion
* the only non-FLOSS piece of software
Speaker, Company 2

3. Who am I?
• Fabrizio Giudici
– http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/
– http://www.tidalwave.it/people
• Working with Java since 1996
• Senior Java Architect, mentor, technical writer
• Owner of several open source projects
• Member of the NetBeans Dream Team
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4. Why am I doing this?
• Tools aren't the single most important thing for success
– People are (team, leadership, communication, etc...)
• Once the we have estabilished a process, tools help a lot
– Automating tasks
– Enforcing the process
– Facilitating cooperation
• Tools make best practices easier and less expensive
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5. What we need to do
• Transforming sources into deployable artifacts
• Keeping tracks of changes in sources
• Keeping track of issues (bugs, RFE)
• Running tests and QA tools
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6. Maven
• A tool for automating the build process
• Uses a declarative approach (Project Object Model)
• Plugin based
• Implements a distributed repository for artifacts
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7. Mercurial
• A Distributed Source Control Mechanism (DSCM)
– check out / commit + push pull
• Improves branch management over Subversion
– “Branch per feature”
• Git is similar
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8. Jira
• Starts as an issue tracker
• ... but it is more:
– Project planning
– Communication tool
Speaker, Company 8

9. Hudson
• A tool for Continous Integration (CI)
– Web-based
– Easy to install
– Based on plugin, with a large ecosystem
– Supports virtualisation
– Cloud ready
• Do you know what CI is?
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10. QA measurement
• Tools to measure quality of your software
– Cobertura
– FindBugs
– CheckStyle
– CPD/PMD
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11. Cobertura
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12. FindBugs
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13. Checkstyle
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14. PMD / CPD
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