Eliminating the Build Barrier to Continuous Integration and Test

Eliminating the Build Barrier to Continuous Integration and Test

Broadcast Date: June 7th, 2007
Time: 10:00 AM PDT -- 1:00 PM EST -- 1700 GMT

Patrick Egan

Speakers:
Rob Cheng, Director of Development Intelligence Solutions, Borland
Mark Silva, PerfectBuild Product Manager, Codefast
Patrick Egan, Editor-in-Chief, CM Journal

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Are you looking to adopt continuous integration, but aren’t sure where to start? Is the performance and manageability of your build operation a bottleneck, limiting the agility of your development teams? In this Webcast, you will learn how you can optimize key build and test processes to improve software quality, developer productivity, and management visibility. You’ll see:

How to easily create automated, adaptable “push-button” builds

How to execute incremental or parallel builds for maximum performance

How to manage complex build dependencies and distributed build environments

How to automatically capture and trend key development metrics

A demo showing how Borland® Gauntlet™ and Codefast PerfectBuild work together in a real-time environment to deliver fast, reliable, reusable builds and extend the benefits of continuous integration and test

Learn how agile teams can get fast, reliable, complete feedback on changes to quickly spot and resolve problems before they propagate. Understand how to continuously measure and track project quality so you can identify and mitigate risk factors early before they impact the success of your projects – and the health of your business.

About the Presenters:

Rob Cheng, Director of Development Intelligence Solutions, Borland

Rob Cheng is the Director of Development Intelligence Solutions at Borland, The Open ALM Company. He is responsible for strategy and evangelism in the emerging field of applying business intelligence disciplines to software development. As part of this effort, he has recently focused on the launch of Borland Gauntlet, a continuous build and test automation system that provides real-time visibility and software quality metrics across the entire delivery lifecycle.

Prior to Borland, Rob spent several years at Oracle Corporation, holding various product management, developer evangelism and technology marketing roles, most recently serving as Product Director for Oracle's middleware and tools products. He also served as chair of the Web Services-Interoperability (WS-I) organization's Marketing and Communications Committee during its inaugural year.

Rob has spoken at a number of industry events, including BorCon, JavaONE, Oracle OpenWorld, XML Web Services One, SD Web Services World, LinuxWorld, Comdex, and Gartner's Application Development and Integration shows, as well as various Java User Groups and Developer Events.

Rob has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley and also studied Computer Science and Telecommunications Policy in the Technology and Policy Program at MIT.

Mark Silva, PerfectBuild Product Manager, Codefast

Mark Silva is responsible for managing the PerfectBuild product. He comes to Codefast from IBM Rational Software where he was most recently technical sales manager for the Rational product line. Over the course of his career, he has worked across all aspects of the development lifecycle from requirements through to release and is an expert in development tools and methods."

Patrick Egan

Patrick Egan is the founder of CM Crossroads and Editor-in-Chief for the Configuration Management Journal. With over 20 years experience in the software industry in both development and product management, he brings an understanding of the needs of both the industry as well as the users of configuration management tools. Prior to CM Crossroads, Mr. Egan held technical and executive management positions with fortune 500 organizations and software vendors such as Allstate Insurance, the LEGENT Corporation, SERENA Software, New Dimensions, PLATINUM Technology, Catalyst Systems and Computer Associates. Mr. Egan received his Bachelors of Science degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Loyola University of Chicago.

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About the Sponsors:

Borland is the leading vendor of Open Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions – open to customers’ processes, tools and platforms – providing the flexibility to manage, measure and improve the software delivery process. Borland offers integrated Open ALM products, services and training to help customers transform software delivery into a managed business process.
Codefast products let companies focus on creating better software by simplifying and automating software production operations like software build, integration, test execution and packaging. Based on the company’s patented, component-aware automation platform, Codefast products reduce administration costs, while providing highly reliable 6-Sigma level process execution at maximum speed.