In case you can’t get enough of CI from the book, check out “Spot defects early with Continuous Integration” at IBM developerWorks.

This tutorial guides you step-by-step through the fundamental concepts of Continuous Integration using Hudson, Ant, and Subversion– when you’re done, you’ll understand the benefits of Continuous Integration as well as how to set up and properly configure Hudson, Ant, and Subversion to work together. The resulting build process will run both tests and software inspections and will report back violations almost as quickly as they occur.

Agitar’s Jeffrey Fredrick and myself will be hosting a free webinar on how to implement a continuous integration and testing process. Jeffrey is a key factor in the success of CruiseControl and is one of the principle figures behind CITCON (the other, of course, being Paul Julius); consequently, I’m humbled to have this opportunity. If you’re curious about CI or developer testing, then make it a point to join us for this event.

The webinar will take place on November 14th at 9am PST and registration is required. See you there!

I am very pleased that renowned Continuous Integration and Developer Testing expert, Paul Julius, has joined Stelligent Incorporated (my employer). Paul and Jay Flowers are recent additions to our impressive team of experts.

Paul is a co-founder of the CruiseControl Continuous Integration server and has a passion for improving the state of the software industry. Paul is also a co-founder of the wildly popular CITCON conferences hosted on three continents every year. Along with Martin Fowler, he wrote one of the forewords of the Continuous Integration book that I coauthored. I look forward to working with Paul as he joins Stelligent. He blogs at www.pauljulius.com/blog/ and will soon be blogging at our popular company blog, TestEarly.com.

Stelligent is the leader in Agile Software Production. We work with large Fortune 500 and government organizations around the world. We help development teams employ techniques such as build automation, continuous integration, release engineering, automated developer testing and inspections into the daily process of developing software rather than waiting later in the lifecycle. Our goal is always to accelerate the delivery of highly reliable software for our customers.