The basic difference between a Build Management Server (BMS) and an Application Lifecycle Automation Server (ALA) is that the BMS is focused strictly on the build process while the ALA coordinates the build process, build promotions, and deployments, and thus weaves together all stages of the Application Lifecycle from development to release and into maintenance.
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Why did I choose Atlassian suite for my company?
From a slide stack I presented to the overlords: Why Atlassian? Atlassian suite provides highly integrated modern comprehensive lifecycle tools that are fully integrated and provide capabilities for the application development infrastructure needed to meet the needs of the most modern development communities. Atlassian: unified approach Unified approach to the life cycle: At any time, business [...]
Livescribe logs of CITCON Brisbane ’09
“Enterprise CI roadmap and maturity model” http://www.livescribe.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LDApp.woa/wa/MLSOverviewPage?sid=KhQpzh49pwBh “How much functional testing is enough” http://www.livescribe.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LDApp.woa/wa/MLSOverviewPage?sid=CP6SmJ2n56L4 http://www.livescribe.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LDApp.woa/wa/MLSOverviewPage?sid=98Fxgdk2Nv6v http://www.livescribe.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LDApp.woa/wa/MLSOverviewPage?sid=F7LGsQj8DX0j “Is scrum evil?” http://www.livescribe.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LDApp.woa/wa/MLSOverviewPage?sid=VW2kFW8JsHzj “How to make CI stick” http://www.livescribe.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LDApp.woa/wa/MLSOverviewPage?sid=NRJfDsdv4z2H “Extending CI past traditional development” http://www.livescribe.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LDApp.woa/wa/MLSOverviewPage?sid=P7Ggkg1KLgwD “Wrap-up session” http://www.livescribe.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LDApp.woa/wa/MLSOverviewPage?sid=KhQpzh49pwBh
How to promote artifacts
Chris has been tasked with implementing a process to control the promotion and deployment of application builds. The project for which Chris is implementing this process is a typical three-tiered web application, with some static content to be served by an HTTP server, dynamic content that needs to run on an application server, and a [...]