Interview with John Ferguson Smart

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We talk to John Ferguson Smart about build automation and quality in this interview recorded at Devoxx '08

The video version of this interview can be found at Parleys:
http://parleys.com/display/PARLEYS/Home#talk=28803076;slide=1;title=John%20Ferguson%20Smart%20Devoxx%20Interview

• Java Power Tools book
• http://www.amazon.com/Java-Power-Tools-Ferguson-Smart/dp/0596527934
• John's Consulting company
• http://www.wakaleo.com/
• Continuous Integration
• http://martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.html
• Hudson
• https://hudson.dev.java.net/
• Checkstyle, Findbugs, PMD, Clover, Cobertura
• http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/
• http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/
• http://pmd.sourceforge.net/
• http://www.atlassian.com/software/clover/whats-new.jsp
• http://cobertura.sourceforge.net/
• Code Exploration - Trac, Fisheye, etc.
• http://trac.edgewall.org/
• http://www.atlassian.com/software/fisheye/
• Ant
• http://ant.apache.org/
• Maven
• http://maven.apache.org/
• Gant/Gradle
• http://gant.codehaus.org/
• http://www.gradle.org/
• JUnit
• http://www.junit.org/
• TestNG
• http://testng.org/doc/documentation-main.html
• Parameterized Tests
• http://www.testearly.com/2007/04/13/take-heed-of-mixing-junit-4s-parameterized-tests/
• Groovy for testing
• http://groovy.codehaus.org/Unit+Testing
• Bamboo
• http://www.atlassian.com/software/bamboo/
• Team City
• http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/
• Hudson Continuous Integration game
• http://wiki.hudson-ci.org/display/HUDSON/The+Continuous+Integration+Game+plugin
• EasyB
• http://www.easyb.org/
• http://parleys.com/display/PARLEYS/Home#talk=28573704;slide=1;title=Behavior%20driven%20development%20in%20Java%20with%20easyb

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• Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork
• Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
• Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
• Theme Music:
  • Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI),
    written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney.
    Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad.
    Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
  • Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
    

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