sutch has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
O'Reilly has a new offering, Pragmatic Project Automation: How to Build, Deploy, and Monitor Java Apps. The book looks interesting to me, since it details how to automate most aspects of project management that I now perform by hand. I would not purchase this book myself, since it is Java specific (not that I have anything against Java, just that I don't use it).
My question is: what do others use for handling project automation tasks?
Most of the applications which I develop or maintain are web based and use some sort of SQL storage. My office has discussed building a utility which takes an application's source code (possibly from CVS), builds it on a test machine, configures it with some saved values, configures Apache, creates or upgrades a database, populates a database, and runs some tests. We now do most of this by hand. It would be highly useful to automate this process for testing purposes as well as for pushing new or updated applications into production.
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Re: Pragmatic project automation
by tachyon (Chancellor) on Sep 02, 2004 at 19:05 UTC | |
by terra incognita (Pilgrim) on Sep 02, 2004 at 19:58 UTC | |
by sutch (Curate) on Sep 02, 2004 at 20:25 UTC | |
by terra incognita (Pilgrim) on Sep 03, 2004 at 17:58 UTC | |
by adrianh (Chancellor) on Sep 03, 2004 at 09:34 UTC | |
Re: Pragmatic project automation
by johnnywang (Priest) on Sep 02, 2004 at 21:39 UTC | |
Re: Pragmatic project automation
by terra incognita (Pilgrim) on Sep 02, 2004 at 19:55 UTC | |
Re: Pragmatic project automation
by EdwardG (Vicar) on Sep 03, 2004 at 11:01 UTC | |
Re: Pragmatic project automation
by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) on Sep 03, 2004 at 09:05 UTC |
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