continuous integration

The Key Principles of Continuous Delivery

by Burkhard Stubert
2022/11/282022/11/28
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In the seminal book Accelerate, Forsgren and her co-authors provide empirical evidence that Continuous Delivery has a positive impact on the performance of software development organisations. If organisations neglect some of the principles and practices of Continuous Delivery, their performance will suffer. They will reach the point where simple changes will take ages to implement. Not so with Continuous Delivery.

A Basic Continuous Integration Pipeline with GitHub Actions

by Burkhard Stubert
2022/06/062022/06/06

In a previous post, I built a basic CI pipeline with CTest that uploaded its results to a CDash board. It worked fine except that we had to start the pipeline manually from the command line. In this post, we define a pipeline with GitHub Actions that runs the CI pipeline whenever a developer pushes a code change to a GitHub repository.

3 functions: 2 covered by tests, 1 uncovered

Building a CI Pipeline with CTest and CDash

by Burkhard Stubert
2022/05/02

We can use CMake, CTest and CDash to build a basic Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline. The pipeline builds the applications, runs the tests, collects coverage information and uploads all the results to a dashboard on a web server. All this is controlled by one CMake script executed by CTest.