Tikal’s Continuous integration Quick-Start

Building quality software on a regular basis is a common need for most R&D organizations. The Continuous integration approach is all about using ALM tools to automate and manage the software Build –> Deploy->Test process.

We at Tikal believes that using an Open Source software tools, along with our experience and knowledge enable our customer to achieve optimal processes while minimize the cost of ownership of such software tools

Tikal’s ALM 2.0 Continuous integration Module – The Hudson Stack

Tikal Knowledge, a leading provider of ALM solutions, offers you a set of tools and methodologies that enable you to implement Continuous integration as part of your release process.

Tikal Hudson Stack is the CI module of our Tikal ALM 2.0 Suite. It is a certified software stack of Hudson, Nexus and Sonar powered by distributed builds, code quality analysis and artifacts management.

Tikal’s Hudson Special Promotion pack

We offer you the opportunity to enhance and upgrade your existing Build->Deploy->Test process using the following product and services:

• Continuous integration process review: Review your existing process with Tikal’s ALM experts and design the solution that fits best to your organization needs.
• Hudson Optimization: Optimize your Hudson and Maven Integration with automated version numbering, release notes and branch model, by adopting the integrated solution of Tikal Hudson & SVN stacks.
• Sonar to Hudson integration: Use Tikal Hudson stack to power your Hudson setup with Code quality audits using Sonar
• ALM 2.0 CI: Automate your entire R&D cycle using Tikal's Build-Deploy-Test Methodology, Powered by Hudson, Nexus, Sonar, Eucalyptus, Selenium as part of the Tikal CI suite.

We now offer a one-time special promotion to our customers.

Any customer who will order the Hudson Optimization, Sonar to Hudson Integration or the ALM 2.0 CI module services will get a CI process review and audit for free !

This promotion is limited until November 1^st. 2010. Contact us for a quote.

For any additional information please contact sales.

Tikal’s ALM 2.0 Suite

An extensible platform, hosting and integrating several web-based development and collaboration tools to a unified ALM process and model with pre-defined setup.

The suite empowers and enhances best of breed community editions such as Bugzilla, SVN, Hudson, Sonar, and maven in two different aspects:

1. Local enhancement of each product to include richer functionality, better UI, and broader support of a variety of operational processes, such as security, deployment and quality analysis.

2. Central management platform which integrates with the underlying products and provide common services such as workflow capabilities, reporting, single sign on and multiple contexts (versions / projects / users).

Tikal ALM2.0 suite hosts all ALM tools on one platform, and offers a proven solid technology, combined with a powerful integrated view of the entire development cycle.

We offer two main functional suites:

• Tikal CM – Change Management: Helps software teams remain fluid and responsive to the changing needs of the business.

  • Manages the process of Plan ->Develop->Build-> Release with an integrated suite of issue tracker, version control, build manager and artifact control

  • Enables tracking of issues in multiple contexts of versioning, builds and artifacts

• Tikal CI – Continuous integration: Helps build quality software on a regular basis.

  • Manages the process of Build-> Deploy-> Test.

  • Provides and automated process of distributed build and deploy.

  • Enables tracking of builds by code quality and tests inspection.

The main building blocks of Tikal’s ALM 2.0 suite are a set of enhanced best of breed community editions:

1. Tikal Subversion - A certified software stack of Subversion, ViewVC and Apache powered by policy hooks, security and query tool

2. Tikal Bugzilla - An enhanced Bugzilla issue tracker powered by entity types, sub-tasking and clean UI.

3. Tikal Hudson - A certified software stack of Hudson, Nexus and Sonar powered by distributed builds, code quality analysis and artifacts management.

Tikal Hudson Stack

Tikal Hudson isa certified software stack of Hudson, Nexus and Sonar powered by distributed builds, code quality analysis and artifacts management, with the following capabilities

• Distributed Builds,Zero-setup slave installation and Automatic JDK/Ant/Maven installation
• Core CI capabilities,Test/build matrix support, Run builds concurrently for better feedback and Intelligent console output
• Code Quality Analysis, Insights into code quality and integration to Sonar server.
• Completely Secure, Per-project access control and Easily integrate with LDAP.
• Test Result Comprehension, Inspect test results online, Monitor the test execution time trend and integration to Selenium.
• Source Code Control Integration Comprehensive version control support, Track commits in builds.