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Pragmatic Project Automation: How to Build, Deploy, and Monitor Java Apps
By: Mike Clark Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Format: Illustrated Label: The Pragmatic Programmers Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 176 Publication Date: 2004-08
Product Description: Forget wizards, you need a slave--someone to do your repetitive, tedious and boring tasks, without complaint and without pay, so you'll have more time to design and write exciting code. Indeed, that's what computers are for. You can enlist your own computer to automate all of your project's repetitive tasks, ranging from individual builds and running unit tests through to full product release, customer deployment, and monitoring the system.
Many teams try to do these tasks by hand. That's usually a really bad idea: people just aren't as good at repetitive tasks as machines. You run the risk of doing it differently the one time it matters, on one machine but not another, or doing it just plain wrong. But the computer can do these tasks for you the same way, time after time, without bothering you. You can transform these labor-intensive, boring and potentially risky chores into automatic, background processes that just work.
In this eagerly anticipated book, you'll find a variety of popular, open-source tools to help automate your project. With this book, you will learn:
How to make your build processes accurate, reliable, fast, and easy.
How to build complex systems at the touch of a button.
How to build, test, and release software automatically, with no human intervention.
Technologies and tools available for automation: which to use and when.
Tricks and tips from the masters (do you know how to have your cell phone tell you that your build just failed?)
You'll find easy-to-implement recipes to automate your Java project, using the same popular style as the rest of our Jolt Productivity Award-winning Starter Kit books. Armed with plenty of examples and concrete, pragmatic advice, you'll find it's easy to get started and reap the benefits of modern software development. You can begin to enjoy pragmatic, automatic, unattended software production that's reliable and accurate every time.
Other Pragmatic Programmer books:
Starter Kit Volume II: Pragmatic Unit Testing (Java and C# versions) (Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas) Starter Kit Volume I: Pragmatic Version Control using CVS (Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt)
One of the best books out there Pragmatic Project Automation: How to Build, Deploy, and Monitor Java Apps
This is one of the best books that I have read (and own). It is very to the point, excellent explanation(s) and top that with source code. Highly recomended.
Build Automation Quick Overview I grabbed this book from the shelf in our Atlassian office few months ago. I just finished reading it this morning. This book is very well written and easy to read.
I read it most on the train commuting to work. My trip only takes 20 minutes, so you could think "what can you possibly read and learn in 20 minutes?" Well not a lot, but enough to get you started. The way the book is written makes it easy to continue reading after an interruption.
Book is structured in a way that leads you though the processes in software development: building (testing), releasing, installation, deployment and monitoring. Each process is described and the ways of automation are discussed in detail.
I consider myself a senior software engineer but this book had several points that made me say: "That would be nice to have in our build!" This book will save you lots of time and lots of manual work, thanks to automation. I can guarantee you'll get inspired by this book.
I'm happy I found this book on our office shelf. Now, I'll put it back so others at Atlassian can read it as well...
Well written, fun and great content If you are a Java developer and want to know the basics of how to construct a decent build and release process then I recommend reading Mike's book. It doesn't go into any topic in real detail; however like most Pragmatic Bookshelf books, it is concise, well written and easily absorbed. The tools that the book discusses includes CVS, Ant and CruiseControl. One of my favourite and most enjoyed books.
Automation Quick Start This is a great book for developers and teams who want to know how that can automate their processes better. It doesn't go too deeply on some topics, but there are enough pointers to more information. If you need to learn more about how to streamline your work, this is an excellent book.
Great book on software project automation This book is the third volume in the Pragmatic Starter kit, but is self-contained enough that it can be read on its own. The first chapter starts with a story about how built-in automation makes everyone's life better-especially the developer's. Thus this book is really about letting the computer do boring, repetitive things so that developers can concentrate on what is new and interesting. The rest of the first chapter answers some frequently asked questions including why and when developers should automate. This FAQ is useful in its own right, but also helps readers figure out whether the rest of the book is for them. The next two chapters show how to automate a Java build with Ant and then schedule that build. Clark points out that running tests is part of the build process. Chapters 4 and 5 describe how to generate and distribute releases of software. One of my favorite ideas from these chapters is writing a checklist script that clients can run on-site to check for "is it plugged in" errors. The last chapter is about monitoring all this automation. This chapter alone is worth the price of the book. Developers always want this information, but nobody enjoys being spammed by their own computers, and it's a pain to set up filters so that the right messages reach exactly the right people. Clark's solution is to use RSS notifications so that your build system creates a blog as it goes along. It's a great idea, and I've already started implementing it locally. This book is short, but it's chock full of ideas and advice that can be put to use immediately. I found Clark's writing style clear, easy to read, and often entertaining. As a bonus, the book's concepts are language independent even though Clark uses Java and Java-based tools.
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