Automation Goal – Step 1

What is my goal with automation? Well, ultimately, I want all of the great things they talk about in the Introduction of the Buildbot page — builds happen automatically, tests are run, we know if the code is in a good state.

I can’t start with a fully fledges automated build setup. I thought that installing katana was going to be the hard part. Now I see that configuring it is going to be a real challenge, too.  Here is my initial goal:

I have a build-master. It watched my github repository, and whenever it changes, it kicks off builds on my build slaves. For starters, I’ll be happy if I can kick off an Android build on my Windows build-slave.

That’s it. If I can get that up and going, I’ll be happy — for step 1. Oh, and for my initial goal, I’ll use buildbot; if I can get it going, I’ll look into katana.