Do you feel productive learning a new scripting language, trying to automate your build process? It’s a pain when you try to setup a new Build Server? If you are a C# Developer and you have answered yes to any of these questions, this session is for you. Cake is a cross platform build automation solution that leverage your C# skills. In this session we will explore the ingredients of this Cake and see how you can build a script to compile an application, run unit tests and more.

1. Build automation?
It’s a piece of Cake.
Guilherme Ferreira
@gsferreira
http://netponto.org18ª Reunião Presencial no Porto 04/11/2017

2. Guilherme Ferreira
@gsferreira
http://gsferreira.com
Porto, Portugal
Software Architect @numbersbelieve
@netponto community organizer
Father and Husband | Black Lab Companion
Ankylosing Spondylitis Fighter

3. Library

4. Library !== “Libraria”

6. CTRL + SHIFT + B

7. Why it hurts?

8. Build should be…
• a separate process
• a living form of documentation
• repeatable
• made up of more than one solution if needed
• valid without binaries or sensitive information in repository
• versioned

9. So that…
• we can increase team productivity
• we can decrease complexity of development and CI/CD

10. Build workflow
Clean
Package
Restore
Build
Run Unit
Tests
Test
Coverage
Package Deploy

11. What is Cake? (http://cakebuild.net/)
• Build automation system
• C# Make (F# - Fake, Powershell - psake, …)
• Learn a new language 
• .NET shop
• Built on top of Roslyn and Mono
• Cross Platform
• Detailed documentation

12. What is Cake? (http://cakebuild.net/)
• Built-in methods for common operations (C# DSL)
• Build agnostic from Build Server

13. Cake is built with Cake on…

15. Open souce – healthy community

17. Coming soon…

18. Intellisense

19. Demo

20. Build workflow
Clean
Package
Restore
Build
Run Unit
Tests
Test
Coverage
Package Deploy
ASP.NET Core
xUnit.net
Octopus Deploy

21. How I do it?
• GIT / Visual Studio Team Services
• TeamCity
• Octopus Deploy
• nuget
• npm
• .net core
• xUnit V2
• Jest
• Docker

22. Extensions: Visual Studio
• Syntax Highlighting
• Templates
• Task Runner

23. Extensions: VS Code
• Syntax Highlighting
• Snippets
• Intellisense (Comming soon)

24. Wrapping up
• Versioned Build Script
• Use your C# Super Powers
• Cross Platform
• Extensible
• Healthy community
• More than 100 addins
• Intellisense ❤
• A piece of cake!

25. Questions?
@gsferreira
https://gsferreira.com
https://github.com/gsferreira/cakedemo