Testing a continous integration setup
I found a soultion to a problem testing CI, and I wanted to share it with you.
Im really into Continous Integration as a method to increase product quality and decrrease time to market, but I have been struggeling with creating a sand box where new ideas could be tested.
This is because the setup (developer work station, svn, cruise control, jira, test, stage and production environments) uses manny bits of kit and its not easy to tinker with all of them at the same time.
The solution I found was to use Virtual Box (sun opensource virtualisation) to emulate and run all the diferent instances on my laptop.
an added bonus was that I could just copy the files (one for each box) and share it with my developer buddies, who could see the idea without mis interpreting my meaning. They gave some excellent feedback too.
Im guessing that there may be thousands of diferent ways of acheiving this. I was wondering if you could share your thoughts on this subject?
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