During a Buildbot build step you might need to have a list of files which have changed as a result of a commit to your repository. A quick way to get this information during a build step is to subclass the build step class of your choice and overload its start() function. A build step’s […]
This is a quick update to my last article on Running Buildbot as a Windows XP Service. There was an interesting comment posted by jdpipe regarding the previous article . He offered a nice solution for some issues I was having with environment variables and stopping the Buildbot service. You can check out the article […]
I have been working on setting up the new automated build system. We were having some hardware problems with the new server which was very unfortunate. Denrei tracked it down to the new gigabit NIC I installed. For now, we are going to revert back to the 100 Mbit onboard NIC. Despite the problems, the […]
One part of our next milestone consists of extending our automated build system. We already use Buildbot to automate most of our builds and testing. Every time source code is checked into the repository it is compiled and all unit tests are run. If the compile or unit tests fail the entire team is notified […]
We finally got internet at our new place today. The release of our Pub Crawl milestone should happen shortly. We also replaced our old 100 Mbit networking hardware with new 1 Gbit switches. I was worried about the cost being too much for the extra speed. I was also worried that we wouldn’t see a […]
This is an in progress tutorial on how to run buildbot as a Windows XP service. Most of the information comes from these three articles by Grig Gheorghiu: continuous-integration-with-buildbot running-buildbot-on-various-platforms running-python-script-as-windows At Stolen Notebook we use Buildbot for our automated testing. Buildbot is a system that automates project builds and tests. It helps our team […]
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