CI Bootcamp | Agile Brains

Continuous Integration Boot Camp

This 3-day instructor-led course will teach the fundamental concepts, practical application, and workflow integration skills necessary for successful CI implementation. Students will learn through hands on labs, class demos, class participation exercises, frequent quizzes, video tutorials, and traditional power point presentations. This is an interactive class, and individuals will be expected to participate fully in all exercises to retain maximum benefit of the course.

Set up and navigate a CI environment that enables automated testing & automated builds
Execute releases in test environments prior to product delivery
Identify the most efficient CI tools for quick release & reliable maintenance of products
Integrate Continuous Integration methods & techniques into current workflow for a SCM environment
Deliver value from continuous integration in your own organization
Examine real world examples of continuous integration benefits

Course Outline

Module 1: Continuous Integration Overview

This Module covers the fundamentals of Continuous Integration, a software development methodology that focusses on consistent code testing. For any team that is implementing an Agile programming approach to software development, Continuous Integration (CI) will be an integral part of the process.

The difference between Integration, Deployment, and Delivery

Continuous integration
Continuous deployment
Continuous delivery

Continuous Integration Flow

Checking for updates
Extracting Code
Integrating updates into a test environment
Reviewing test results
Integrating updates into the Build

Demo

Make a Change in CI environment
Check in update
View Code Analysis Report
View Test Results
Verify Build

Module 2: Advantages of Continuous Integration

This Module covers the results that CI delivers, and how they translate into more efficient workflows, higher deliverability, and less overall cost. Benefits associated with CI will be exemplified including:

Reaping the benefits of Continuous Integration

Reduce implementation effort
Increase speed of resolution
Improve quality & maintenance of each product release
Increase speed of delivery

Communicating Analytics with Clients & Managers

High Transparency
Running Tests in the real world
Updating code with changing requirements

Class Quiz

Fundamentals of Continuous Integration
Execution of Continuous Integration
Testing Results of Continuous Integration

Companies utilize CI techniques successfully

Class discussion regarding real world companies which have successfully integrated Continuous Integration into their common practice. Review of released content thaqt their deployment workflows.

Case Studies for Continuous Integration

Production Changes every 11.6 seconds at Amazon
The Facebook Release Process
Continuous Delivery at Google
The Software Revolution Behind LinkedIn's Gushing Profits | Business | WIRED
Deploying the Netflix API
Tesla utilizing Continuous upgrades
How Etsy Deploys More Than 50 Times a Day

Class Discussion

How did each company in these reports utilize Continuous Integration?
How was CI most likely implemented in each example?
How would you apply CI to your own production environment?

Module 3: Implementing a CI Environment

In this Module, we will take a deep dive into the analyzation, best practices, and setup of a CI environment.

Creating & Managing a Source Code Repository

Distributed code Repositories
Choosing the right tools: Repository Tools Review
Separating requirements & dependencies
To use branches or not to use branches?

Configure Automated Deployment

Configuring the DHPC server
Source Commit Check
Starting with simple Deployment scripts
Real time bug alerts

Creating Automated Tests

Unit Testing
User Interface Testing
API Testing
Regression Testing
Load Testing
Security Testing

Lab

Create a Source Code Repository
Build an Automated Test
Check new code into Repository
Run a unit Test on New Code

Module 4: Database Versioning

Best Practices for database versioning
Database Schema & scripts
Database versioning tools
Multiple database instances for each developer
Benefits of Database Versioning

Database Versioning Process:

Check out object to be modified
Apply modifications in database test environment
Run tests to verify changes have not broken the build
Check in object for final authentication

Database Versioning Approaches

Task Based Development
Compare & Sync
Database version checks
Upgrade scripts & Parallel Development

Lab

Modify an object in test environment
Check in modifications to repository
Run Unit test to check against changes
Run final test for deployment

Module 5: Maintaining a CI Environment

Module 5 investigates CI methods & techniques which ensure problems & bugs are detected early, and speed to deployment is consistent.

Implementing the Build, Deploy, Test, and Release Process

Software Configuration
Automatic Launch
Test Report Generation
Submit to Testers

Product Maintainability & Monitoring

Reliability, Availability, Maintainability: Why you need all three
Criteria for "pass" requirements
Scope & Scalability
Consistent updating of Software functionality
Analytics & Reporting

Module 6: Agile tools for Continuous Integration

Before selecting a CI/CD solution, it is crucial for developers & project managers to choose the correct path for each particular application. In this module we will review open source tools, and delve into the pros & cons that they bring to the table.

Setting up the CI Server