"Pretty" Continuous Integration for Python
- by dbr
This is a slightly.. vain question, but BuildBot's output isn't particularly nice to look at..
For example, compared to..
phpUnderControl
Hudson
CruiseControl.rb
..and others, BuildBot looks rather.. archaic
I'm currently playing with Hudson, but it is very Java-centric (although with this guide, I found it easier to setup than BuildBot, and produced more info)
Basically: is there any Continuous Integration systems aimed at python, that produce lots of shiney graphs and the likes?
Update: After trying a few alternatives, I think I'll stick with Hudson. Integrity was nice and simple, but quite limited. I think Buildbot is better suited to having numerous build-slaves, rather than everything running on a single machine like I was using it.
Setting Hudson up for a Python project was pretty simple:
Download Hudson from https://hudson.dev.java.net/
Run it with java -jar hudson.war
Open the web interface on the default address of http://localhost:8080
Go to Manage Hudson, Plugins, click "Update" or similar
Install the Git plugin (I had to set the git path in the Hudson global preferences)
Create a new project, enter the repository, SCM polling intervals and so on
Install nosetests via easy_install if it's not already
In the a build step, add nosetests --with-xunit --verbose
Check "Publish JUnit test result report" and set "Test report XMLs" to **/nosetests.xml
That's all that's required. You can setup email notifications, and the plugins are worth a look. A few I'm currently using for Python projects:
SLOCCount plugin to count lines of code (and graph it!) - you need to install sloccount separately
Violations to parse the PyLint output (you can setup warning thresholds, graph the number of violations over each build)
Cobertura can parse the coverage.py output. Nosetest can gather coverage while running your tests, using nosetests --with-coverage (this writes the output to **/coverage.xml)
