Integration With Hudson

For the rest of the semester we will be grouping together with a partner or other people. We've already touched upon using a version management system such as SVN to allow us to have a centrally distributed build. So now that we are working with partners it's a good time as ever to get into the practice of using this newly found knowledge.

Last week, we were introduced to Hudson which allows us to automatically run repeated jobs and auto build/test our systems. This automated process is connected to our google repository. This is a very useful tool for us to use now that we are working with a partner/s. When one of us breaks and build on uploads a new build it will automatically test it and send out a report by email to us.

Most of the setup was done by my partner but from what I could tell, the Hudson system was very quick and easy to set up. It only took a few minutes to get our program up online and have it start building. I'm sure it will continue to become a very useful tool throughout the rest of the semester and probably our future career.