Overview of several open source tools which can be integrated together to establish a highly effective agile engineering support environment.

1. An Agile Engineering Environment
(in 59 minutes or less)
October 24, 2009
Presented by: Vernon Stinebaker ( )

2. Agenda
 Ground rules
 Purpose and expected outcomes
 About the presenter
 An agile engineering environment
 Summary
 Q&A
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3. Ground Rules
 Mute your cell phone
 Participate – ask and answer questions
Do Don’t
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4. Purpose and expected outcomes
Purpose:
– To describe an agile engineering environment and share some
options for establishing such an environment
Outcomes:
– Understand many of the key components that can be used to
establish an agile engineering environment
– Gain exposure to various tools which can be used to build out an
agile engineering environment
– Hopefully everyone will walk away with knowledge of at least one
new tool (that you can go back and think about putting into use
on Monday)

5. About Me
Vernon Stinebaker (
http://www.linkedin.com/in/vernonstinebaker
– Director of Technology/Principal Architect
– 20+ years software development and process experience
• CMMI, SDLC/waterfall, and agile methodologies
– Certified ScrumMaster/Certified Scrum Practitioner
– 9+ years experience with Feature Driven Development
– Founding member of the open source FDD Tools project
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6. About Perficient
 Established presence in Hangzhou in 2004
 150 people in Hangzhou/1500 across Perficient
 Early adapter of agile methodologies
 17 offices in the US
 Public company (NASDAQ: PRFT)
 20 CSMs in China
 CMMI Level 5 using agile methodology
 Track record of success delivering distributed projects
using agile
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7. Today’s Focus
Establishing and Agile Engineering Environment
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8. Agile Engineering Environment
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9. Agile Engineering Environment
 What comprises an agile engineering environment?
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10. Agile Engineering Environment
 What comprises an agile engineering environment?
– The environment itself
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11. Agile Engineering Environment
 What comprises an agile engineering environment?
– The environment itself
• Open environment -- bring your screwdriver
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12. Agile Engineering Environment
 What comprises an agile engineering environment?
– The environment itself
• Open environment -- bring your screwdriver
• No walls, open, whiteboards
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13. Agile Engineering Environment
 What comprises an agile engineering environment?
– The environment itself
• Open environment -- bring your screwdriver
• No walls, open, whiteboards
• Open minds/open culture
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14. Agile Engineering Environment
 What comprises an agile engineering environment?
– The environment itself
• Open environment -- bring your screwdriver
• No walls, open, whiteboards
• Open minds/open culture
– Tools
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15. Agile Engineering Environment
 What comprises an agile engineering environment?
– The environment itself
• Open environment -- bring your screwdriver
• No walls, open, whiteboards
• Open minds/open culture
– Tools
• This is what we’ll focus on today
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16. Agile Engineering Environment
 What comprises an agile engineering environment?
– The environment itself
• Open environment -- bring your screwdriver
• No walls, open, whiteboards
• Open minds/open culture
– Tools
• This is what we’ll focus on today
• What do you use?
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17. First things first
 If you have a chance to do so, start off right
 If you don’t have a chance to start right, set a plan to
make things right
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18. Pieces of the puzzle
 Where do we start?
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19. Pieces of the puzzle
 Hudson
– Simple, single WAR (JAR)
installation
– Up and running in one
command
– Excellent plug-in support
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20. Pieces of the puzzle
 Mercurial
– Distributed version control
– Works well on-the-go and with distributed teams
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 Not the only option
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21. Pieces of the puzzle
IDE
 NetBeans
– Strong support for a variety of languages
– Excellent plug-in support for other components presented
– Looks great on the Mac :-)
 Not the only option
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22. Pieces of the puzzle
 xUnit
Tes – The granddaddy of Unit Testing
t
Fra ing – Great IDE support
me
wo
rks  Fit/Fitnesse
– The granddaddy of Functional
Testing
 Selenium
– Solid web-UI testing tool
– Recording/scripting capabilities
 Not the only options
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23. Pieces of the puzzle
 Review Board
– Web based code review
– Scalable
– Works well for distributed Teams
 Not the only option
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24. Pieces of the puzzle
 Sonar
– Integrates numerous open source projects
– Excellent dashboard
 Not the only option
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25. Putting it all together
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26. More pieces?
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27. A deployment-time view
Organizational
Requirements
Management &
Defect Tracking
Developer's Desktop Workgroup/Team Organizational
DVCS DVCS DVCS
IDE
(Mercurial) (Mercurial) (Mercurial)
Web CI Web CI Web CI
Server (Hudson) Server (Hudson) Server (Hudson)
Quality Quality Quality
(Sonar) (Sonar) (Sonar)
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28. Why this toolset?
 Cross platform
 High degree of integration/interoperability
 Scalable
 Supported/rapidly developing
 Simple
– Require little or no configuration
– Can be started with just a single command
 They ‘just work’
 But don’t forget. There are other options!
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29. A quick demo
 Iftime permits
 Script
– Mercurial
• sudo easy_install mercurial
– Download hudson.war
• nohup java -jar hudson.war &
• Verify and add plug-ins -- Mercurial and Sonar
– Download Sonar
• unzip, and change to root of unzipped archive
• ./bin/macosx-universal-32/sonar.sh start
– Download NetBeans, install and run
• Create simple Maven app
• Configure Hudson in NetBeans
• Kick off Hudson build
– Verify build in Hudson and review Sonar results
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30.  Q&A
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31. References
Tools discussed
– Hudson -- http://hudson-ci.org/
– Mercurial -- http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/
– NetBeans -- http://www.netbeans.org
– JUnit -- http://www.junit.org/
– Review Board --http://www.reviewboard.org/
– Sonar -- http://sonar.codehaus.org/
– Maven -- http://maven.apache.org/

32. References
Alternatives (one for each, but there are many)
– CI
• Luntbuild -- http://luntbuild.javaforge.com/
– Version Control
• Bazaar -- http://bazaar-vcs.org/en/
– IDE
• IDEA -- http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/index.html
– Testing Frameworks
• TestNG -- http://testng.org/doc/index.html
– Code Review
• Rietveld -- http://code.google.com/p/rietveld/
– Code Analysis
• Checkstyle -- http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/