Continuous Integration at LesFurets.com – Richmond Java Users Group (RJUG)

“Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.” – 1st principal of the Agile Manifesto

This presentation by Raphaël Brugier (@rbrugier) at the Richmond Java Users Group last night (Feb 17th) was really good and highlighted:

  • Continuous Integration.  A case study of LesFurets.com. 40,000 unit tests running in 3 minutes.  Selenium tests running in 15 minutes.  Passing tests == shippable code.
  • They went from shipping a feature in a month, to as soon as ready (possibly only a few days).
  • A different kind of Git Flow using git octopus. – https://github.com/lesfurets/git-octopus
  • They have new developers hit the deploy button their first day.  Share deployment responsibilities within the dev team.
  • “If it hurts, do it more often.” – In regards to doing a deployment/release.
  • Work on feature branches.  Ship features as ready, not based on sprints. (git octopus facilitates this)
  • Detect feature branch merge conflicts after every push and make sure it’s resolved ASAP.
  • QA is owned by developers and sign off is given by product when dev demos it.
  • and more…

I would highly recommend watching the recording of the event.  Heads up: The speaker had a French accent and the video is from my MacBook’s camera, however, you get to watch it and otherwise you wouldn’t be able to :-p.

YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTOPvC3lV1Q

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/raphaelbrugier/continuous-delivery-journey-at-lesfuretscom

Meetup Info: http://www.meetup.com/Richmond-Java-Users-Group/events/226909145/

Network Calls from Android Device to Laptop over USB via ADB

I’ve seen a few articles about using the “adb reverse” command which allows you to make specific network calls to your laptop over USB, but when explaining this concept to others, they had a hard time visualizing how it worked.  I’ve put together this post to help illustrate how this works and spotlight some use cases.

Android’s “adb reverse” command is available in Lollipop and higher versions of Android (Platform 21+) and it allows you to access a server running on your computer from your Android device over USB without any network (WiFi or Cellular).  This is done through a technique called a reverse proxy.

What’s a reverse proxy? (via Wikipedia)

A type of proxy server that retrieves resources on behalf of a client from one or more servers. These resources are then returned to the client as though they originated from the proxy server itself.

Use Case 1 : Android -> Server running on laptop

Android Device (localhost:8080) -> Server running on Computer (localhost:8081)

adb reverse tcp:8080 tcp:8081

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Use Case 2 : Android -> WireMock on laptop -> Server accessible only on laptop (i.e. VPN)

Download the WireMock JAR and run it using the following command in a Terminal

java -jar wiremock-standalone-2.0.8-beta.jar --port=8081 --proxy-all="https://internal.myapp.com"

Android Device (localhost:8080) -> WireMock running on Computer (localhost:8081)

adb reverse tcp:8080 tcp:8081

This allows you to have your physical Android device access resources that are only available through your laptop.

When you’re done, turn off all reverse proxy port mappings:

adb reverse --remove-all

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