Saftoiu, Rares wrote:
I was wondering if there were any tools available for doing continuous integration with perl. I basically need something that will watch a directory, merge any branches from the directory into trunk, run unit tests, and email the committer in case of a merge conflict or failed unit test.
What SCM tools are you using? For things like this I typically use just a simple bash script to do the update from svn, then if there are changes run the test suite. In your case it would be a little more complicated, but not much.
Any suggestions? Any tools specifically built for perl and Test::More?
Smolder is great for the reporting of test failures. All you really need to do is create a TAP archive and send it to a Smolder server and it can send emails to your team or give you an RSS feed to pull from too. Creating a TAP archive is really easy if you use TAP::Harness::Archive (or if youse Module::Build there's Module::Build::TAPArchive). And sending it to smolder is really easy to. You can use the smolder_smoke_signal util that comes with Smolder or if you use Module::Build, there's Module::Build::Smolder.
You can see the Parrot Smolder install here: http://smolder.plusthree.com/app/developer_projects/smoke_reports/8 -- Michael Peters Plus Three, LP
