Northern Virginia Software Symposium

November 2 - 4, 2007 - Reston, VA


Sheraton Reston
11810 Sunrise Valley Drive
Reston, VA   20191
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Refactoring Ant builds with Ivy, Groovy, and good old fashion common sense

Are your Ant builds giant XML files that scream for attention? Why not enhance your build process to act like a quality gate, much like a test suite would?

Are your Ant builds giant XML files that scream for attention? Why not enhance your build process to act like a quality gate, much like a test suite would? In this session, we'll look at managing 3rd party dependencies with Ivy and then add the power of Groovy to script in quality checks, such as monitoring complexity; plus, we'll look at how to create a customizable dashboard via Groovy.


About Andrew Glover

Andrew is the founder of the easyb BDD framework and the co-author of Addison Wesley's "Continuous Integration", Manning's "Groovy in Action" and "Java Testing Patterns". He is an author for multiple online publications including IBM's developerWorks and Oreilly's ONJava and ONLamp portals. He actively blogs about software at thediscoblog.com.

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