Automating CFML App Build, Test, and Deploy

Sunday February 26, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

This presentation will contain the information needed for a participant to get started immediately, but also show a complete demonstration in a mixed environment. Consider a team of developers, each using their own preferred tools, working on a large CFML application. They need not standardize on a particular IDE, OS, or CFML engine. With a bit of planning, a distributed team of developers can check their code into source control and have it automatically tested and deployed to other servers.

The following outlines the topics and technologies presented:

How to create a CFML application that can be built for any environment with Apache Ant
Using Git developer and production branches to trigger Jenkins CI test and deploy
Configuring Jenkins master/slave nodes on multiple platforms
Automating server deployment and configuration of the CFML engine and application dependencies
Distributing MX Unit and Selenium tests on Jenkins nodes and monitoring test failures

The demonstration will show a team workflow from text editor to production release, and how to deal with conflicts and test failures.