193 symposiums and 30,000 attendees since 2001

Paul Duvall

Author of "Continuous Integration"

Paul Duvall
Paul M. Duvall is the CEO of Stelligent, a consulting firm that helps clients create production-ready software every day. He has worked in virtually every role on software projects: developer, project manager, architect and tester. He's been a featured speaker at many leading software conferences. He is the principal author of Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk (Addison-Wesley, 2007; Jolt 2008 Award Winner). He contributed to the UML 2 Toolkit (Wiley, 2003), authors a series for IBM developerWorks called Automation for the people and authored a chapter in the No Fluff Just Stuff Anthology: The 2007 Edition (Pragmatic Programmers, 2007). He is passionate about automating software development and release processes. He actively blogs on IntegrateButton.com

Blog

Now playing at Microsoft in Redmond

Posted Monday, December 3, 2007

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CI with Hudson, Ant, and Subversion tutorial

Posted Wednesday, November 21, 2007

In case you can’t get enough of CI from the book, check out “Spot defects early with Continuous Integration” at IBM developerWorks. This tutorial guides you step-by-step through the fundame more »

Free CI and testing webinar

Posted Thursday, November 8, 2007

Agitar’s Jeffrey Fredrick and myself will be hosting a free webinar on how to implement a continuous integration and testing process. Jeffrey is a key factor in the success of CruiseControl and is one of the princi more »

Paul Julius joins Stelligent Incorporated

Posted Friday, November 2, 2007

I am very pleased that renowned Continuous Integration and Developer Testing expert, Paul Julius, has joined Stelligent Incorporated (my employer). Paul and Jay Flowers are recent additions to our impressive team of experts. Paul is a c more »
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Presentations

Continuous Integration

Increase feedback on your project by building your software with every change applied to your source code repository. The practice of Continuous Integration (CI) can be used to decrease the time between when a defect is introduced and when it is fixed. more »

Continuous Testing

The key to improving the reliability of your software is to run tests whenever a change occurs. Continuous Testing leverages the practice of continuous integration (CI) to ensure highly reliable code. more »

Continuous Database Integration

Performing daily or continuous builds is essential for ensuring working software. Yet, most consider only the source, not the database, as a part of these builds. What’s good for the source code is also good for your database. more »

Improving Code Quality Using Maven 2

Learn how to use Maven 2 while using plugins that help analyze your code using measures such as cyclomatic complexity, code duplication, code coverage, coding standards and dependency analysis more »

Continuous Integration

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Paul Duvall By Paul Duvall

Increase feedback on your project by building your software with every change applied to your source code repository. The practice of Continuous Integration (CI) can be used to decrease the time between when a defect is introduced and when it is fixed.



You will learn how to get the CruiseControl CI server and a source code management repository to work together in a CI system. From a working reference implementation in Java, you will learn the attributes that make up an effective development platform for CI. Learn how to use the CI system as the centerpiece to your software development activities to create automated code reviews, generate diagrams and documentation, and detect anomalies on a continual basis. Paul will use CruiseControl, Subversion, Ant, JUnit, and other tools that can help you implement a powerful CI system.


Continuous Testing

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Paul Duvall By Paul Duvall

The key to improving the reliability of your software is to run tests whenever a change occurs. Continuous Testing leverages the practice of continuous integration (CI) to ensure highly reliable code.



You'll learn about various testing frameworks such as JUnit, Selenium, and DBUnit that can be incorporated into your CI system so that the tests are run continually (or periodically). Numerous examples will demonstrate the use of these tools so that you can immediately add continuous testing to your development infrastructure.


Continuous Database Integration

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Paul Duvall By Paul Duvall

Performing daily or continuous builds is essential for ensuring working software. Yet, most consider only the source, not the database, as a part of these builds. What’s good for the source code is also good for your database.



You’ll learn how to leverage your CI system to rebuild your database, along with the associated test data when changes occur. Examples will use the CruiseControl CI tool, Ant build tool and the MySQL database. You’ll see demonstrations for dropping and recreating a database along with its associated tables, inserting and modifying the test data.


Improving Code Quality Using Maven 2

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Paul Duvall By Paul Duvall

Learn how to use Maven 2 while using plugins that help analyze your code using measures such as cyclomatic complexity, code duplication, code coverage, coding standards and dependency analysis



You'll learn how to use Maven 2 plugins to improve your code quality while building your software. Learn how to use and analyze the results of JDepend, CheckStyle, Cobertura, JavaNCSS and CPD to improve architectural dependencies, coding standards, code coverage, code complexity and code duplication.

Live demonstrations using an example web application will be used to illustrate each of the measures and their application into the build and development processes.