Automated Testing and Continuous Deployment for Mobile Apps with Jenkins

Kohsuke Kawaguchi and Mark Prichard, CloudBeesMatt Solnit, SOASTAAugust 30, 2012

@CloudBees, @CloudTest, @NewRelic

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Have you met Jenkins?

• #1 OSS CI server–Written in Java

• About 7 years old• Easy to install/use• Extensible via 550+ plugins• Widely adopted– 43K+ installations

• Kohsuke is Jenkins creator/project lead

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• To let developers focus on developing– Leave building, packaging, testing, distributing

to a computer– Make the right thing the easiest thing

• Many, well-adopted mobile development plugins– Safety in numbers

• “Distributed builds” for scaling with workload

• “Matrix project” for easy cross device testing

Why Jenkins for mobile development?

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• Appaloosa plugin, TestFlight plugin– continuous app distribution

• Xcode plugin– Better UI for xcode command

invocations

More iOS+Jenkins love we won’t cover

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• Android emulator plugin– For running tests inside emulator in

Jenkins

• Android lint plugin– Parses & visualizes the result of static

analysis

• Zubhium plugin– Continuous app distribution

We got Android covered, too

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• Some apps don’t need external data• But most do– Push notifications– Location information– Twitter, news feeds– Social interaction– Integration

What makes a great mobile app?

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StockFish … … or Social Chess?

Standalone … … or Integrated?

Two Five-Star Apps

or BOTH?

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• The basics: record games, moves• Next steps: notifications, time keeping • Going further: competition, research• Chess client apps handle actual play• Server doesn’t need to know the rules

• Just for fun: https://github.com/mqprichard/mongo-chess

Building a “Social” Chess Server

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• Built using Eclipse, Maven, Junit, JAX-RS, JAX-B, gson …

• Git repository, Jenkins build/test and app deployment all running on AWS using CloudBees PaaS

• Free to develop: enterprise-grade runtime services

Fun App – but ‘Real’ Java Development

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• Suppose I add some new killer feature• What do I need to test?– Do all components build correctly?– Do the unit tests pass?– Did the interfaces change?– Have I affected the UI behavior?

• I need this all to happen continuously and automatically – end-to-end testing

Testing, Testing, Testing

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Jenkins to the Rescue

Jenkins

iOS Development (Xcode)

Services Development

(Eclipse)

Services Deployment

iOS Packaging/Distrib

ution

Services Build/Unit Test

iOS App Build/Unit Test

Integration/Functional

Testing

iOS TouchTest

Source Code Repository

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• iOS App built from GitHub/CloudBees Forge– Jenkins Xcode builds/tests run on MacOS slaves– Scripted integration tests– Automated functional tests (SOASTA)– Automated gesture-aware touch tests (SOASTA)– iOS app archive/packaging/distribution all

managed through Jenkins plug-ins

• Back-end services end-to-end deployment– Build/Test/Deploy using Eclipse/CloudBees

What you will see

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Jenkins and Agile CI Best Practices

MonitorRepository

Build Code

Test Code

StageApplication

ContinuousDeployment

Continuous Integration The Key to Agile and Lean Development

• Better quality

products

• Faster delivery

• Scale teams

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Jenkins and Agile CI Best Practices

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MonitorRepository

Build Code

Test Code

StageApplication

ContinuousDeployment

Jenkins in the CloudThe Key to Agile and Lean Development

• Unlimited

scalability

• Use what you need

• Seamless tie-in to

PaaS

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• It’s totally free for developers• One click and we’ll start you off with

Jenkins, Java, Scala/Lift, MySQL and more

www.cloudbees.com/signup

Sign Up with CloudBees

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Jenkins User Conference, San Francisco Sept 30, 2012

Kohsuke Kawaguchitwitter: @kohsukekawaemail: kkawaguchi@cloudbees.com

Mark Prichardtwitter: @mqprichard email: mprichard@cloudbees.com

Matt Solnittwitter: @msolnitemail: msolnit@soasta.com

Thank You – See you in San Francisco!