CI

Keeping your dependencies up to date is not the funniest part of a project dev process. Especially if the dependencies list becomes long. However, it is crucial to keep your dependencies as possible close to the up-to-date versions available in order to benefit from the latest upgrades (such as bug fixes). The longer you wait, the harder the upgrade will be. So what if you receive an email every week to inform your team about the last version available of your projects dependencies? Some tools like Lint…

Using a CI Server is a programming practice that is well established and not opened to debate anymore. Sometimes, it's even a topic on which the IT Department has regained control of, managing and rationalizing the servers. Yet, as is often the case, mobile is following its own way: the technologies used can be considered non-standard among the company, the ecosystem is updated way more frequently than in other computing areas, and the need of running on a specific OS for iOS can be the…

Through this post I would like to share with you the continuous delivery chain that we’ve successfully set up. My point is to describe the whole chain (from the Svn check in to the feedback loop to get the deployment status) and highlight some tricks that we discovered. In our context, we cannot speak about Continuous Delivery without addressing the DevOps approach that we clearly have in our teams. This approach gives the opportunity to share our needs and exchange points of views between the…