Cloud Computing: Google App Engine taps Jenkins for continuous integration
October 4, 2012
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.
Continuous integration (CI) tools are becoming a bigger deal in the software development world. That’s why Google is helping App Engine developers use Cloudbees’ Jenkins-in-the-cloud tool. Google is promoting the use of the Jenkins continuous integration server with its Google AppEngine (GAE) platform.
Continuous integration of changes to software code becomes more critical as dev teams get bigger and more dispersed. Jenkins is an open-source tool that pulls in all those changes, centralizes them, and goes through changes continuously to verify code quality. The goal is to make both the development and quality assurance (QA) of code faster and more efficient — with fewer round trips. Towards that end, Google is pointing GAE developers to Cloudbee’s Jenkins implementation. (Cloudbees offers a Java-specific Platform as a Service (PaaS).)…
What tools like Jenkins do is replace chaos, said Ryan Campbell, software developer at Cloudbees. “Any time someone on the team changes something, Jenkins will check it out, test it and then email the developers if they’ve broken anything. Now [with] the App Engine integration, if the tests look good it will automatically deploy the code in GAE — probably in a test environment for your QA team to look at.”…
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