Travis-CI lightning talk notes

travis-ci.md

Travis CI

Continuous integration

• developers check in early, check in often
• automated build verifies every check-in

Why continuous integration

• catch issues quickly
• improve visibility
• trust your software

Before Travis

• CruiseControl
  • open-source, originated at Thoughtworks
  • amazing when it first appeared 15 years ago, now a little creaky despite updates
• Jenkins (fka Hudson)
  • open-source; originated at Sun
  • powerful but requires a lot of configuration
• Bamboo
  • commercial, Atlassian
  • like other Atlassian products (Confluence, JIRA), pretty good but a little fussy

Travis

• commercial, cloud-hosted
• free for GitHub-hosted open-source projects
• works out of the box w/no configuration (though config possible)
• examples
  • datacite-mapping (see build badge)
    • 
    • travis.yml
  • adding a project