DSpace Continuous Integration

Definition of Continuous Integration (CI): Martin Fowler

Currently DuraSpace uses Bamboo, a CI product from Atlassian, makers of Jira and Confluence.

How it is done

Whenever a new checkin occurs to DSpace GitHub, DuraSpace's Bamboo will attempt to build and unit test the entire project and log whether it succeeded or failed. If it succeeds, the build artifacts (jar files, war files) will be saved for a period of time.

When a build or unit test fails, an email is automatically sent to the 'dspace-changelog' listserv to notify the developers & committers. Once the problem is fixed, a 'build successful' email will be sent to the same listserv.

The build reports are available on the web as a traditional website or as RSS feeds:

DSpace

• Browse all DSpace builds: https://bamboo.duraspace.org/browse/DST
• GitHub Master build reports: https://bamboo.duraspace.org/browse/DST-TRUNK

Configuration

DSpace

• Bamboo polls the main DSpace/DSpace GitHub project: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace
• Maven 2.2.1 is used to build the projects
• The Maven command used is

  mvn clean package license:check -Dmaven.test.skip=false

• Java 1.6 is used
• Build reports send emails to 'dspace-changelog' listserv on each failure, and on the first successful build after a failure.