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Continuous Integration, Test, and Deployment of an

OpenERP-based Project

Michael Götz-Schneider

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Project Setup

• Kjellberg Foundation/Finsterwalde Client

• OpenERP Extensible ERP System

• elego/Berlin Project Management, Software Architecture, Requirement Analysis

• elego/Berlin (3)

• RCS/Massen (3)

• Kjellberg DL/Finsterwalde (2)

Developers

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KjellbergERP DevOps

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Developers Work and Integration

Developer

• Checks out a version of OpenERP 7.0

• Code the addon and test

• Commit and push the addon

to the repository

CI Server

• Detects the new or changed feature branch

• Merges the changes into a workspace copy of the integration branch

• Runs regression tests

• Merges the feature branch into the integration branch, unless a regression is detected

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Integration (ILOG)

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Test and Coverage Results

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Change Sets Concept

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Staging (RELOG)

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Staging: Actions for the Release Engineer

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Production

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Production: Actions for the Release Engineer

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Release Notes

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Traceability

• Mail notifications are sent to developers to inform about integration

results

• Change sets reference issues (tickets) in commit messages, in the

integration log (ILOG), in the release engineering log (RELOG), in the

release notes

• Change sets have a release label

• Release versions are tagged and committed

• Each module has a version number

• OpenERP offers a module/version menu

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Open Issues and Problems

•Many changes from the OpenERP 7.0 code base

•How to separate the incoming changes

•Conflict resolution is not fully implemented

•Test coverage has to be increased

•Automatic GUI test

•More IT integration tests for LDAP, Email, Webshop …

•Bazaar: traceability and redmine integration is insufficient

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Thank you for your attention!

Questions?