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September 28, 2005
Automating Software Production Processes
Presented by:
Kevin Jameson
Sr. Vice President of Engineering and Founder, Codefast, Inc.
Abstract
Automated software processes are an important part of your software project infrastructure-they are the scripts and programs that perform checkouts, software builds, regression tests, release packaging processes, code branch health checks, and other such automated file manipulations.
Although programmers have traditionally created automated processes using manual craft labor, it is now possible to generate and execute these kinds of processes using completely automated smart process generators and scalable execution systems, with essentially no human labor involved.
Because human errors are removed from the system along with human labor, process error rates drop dramatically, and product cycle times speed up accordingly. For example, during a five month period (Nov 2004 to Mar 2005), our developers made 25,000 check-ins to a code base of 1 million lines of C code running on 20 platforms, and had zero build failures on our GNU Linux platform. Zero build failures equates to perfect Six Sigma build process quality.
This talk gives the highlights our story-it summarizes Production Automation concepts, goals, solutions, results, and gives our conclusions and expectations for the future.
NOTE: Attendees will be able to pick up a free copy of Kevin Jameson's second, easy to read "Software Lifecycle Automation" book at the presentation (8x5 inches, 208-pages).
Downloads
2005_09.pdf
Speaker Bio
Kevin Jameson is a software productivity researcher who has spent almost 25 years of his life researching and implementing smart, automated software systems for improving the productivity of software development teams.
Kevin was the original founder of Codefast in Canada before the company was reformed as a Silicon Valley venture-backed company, and is currently responsible for the technology vision of modern Codefast products.
Kevin has authored two books in the field, including "Multiplatform Code Management" (O'Reilly, 1994) and "Software Lifecycle Automation"(2004). He has written numerous technical articles and papers, has spoken at various international software conferences, and has authored more than 25 USA and Canadian patents and patents-pending in the field of software lifecycle automation. Kevin has a bachelor's degree in general science and a master's degree in software engineering from the University of Calgary.
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