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Test Driven Deployment?

Yes, you're reading the title correctly. Here's the deal: I've started working at this company, and the software is managed in a Visual Studio solution that includes hundreds of projects (C++ and ...
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Installation from RPM, instead of making source code?

I am trying to deploy a Redis server in Linux. The Redis official site provides source code to download, so I have to use 'make' to install Radis. The 'make' works, but my problem is how can I use ...
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What are the pros and cons of running multiple instances of an app per marketplace?

One app to rule them all, and in the darkness, bind them. I'm speccing out a client app at the moment. The same service is to be delivered to two separate counties and the the content within: users, ...
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What is the best solution for using NetBeans on different computers and keeping them in sync?

I am using NetBeans IDE for PHP programming. What is the best solution for using NetBeans on two different computers and keeping them in sync? I am currently using the FTP upload on save feature. But ...
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Automating database deployment using a CMS

My team are developing Umbraco websites and looking to improve the automation of our database deployment. Currently we have automated builds and deployments of our source code using Kiln and Team ...
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Handling Deployment to Multiple Environments

How should I handle deploying web applications to multiple servers? Constraints I have a dev, test and prod environment. No build server is available. Developers can't deploy to prod. The people ...
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Sharing dlls in a software deployment

We are moving our software project from the practically auto-creating Visual Studio Installer in Visual Studio 2010 to a WiX installer. I'd like to use this change to make sure things are right. The ...
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which is better of these two architectures and why

PhpServer will handle gSoap requests and http requests from clients. PushServer will push notifications to clients and act a file server. There are many server machines. Every PhpServer will ...
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Refactoring Tomcat webapp deployments

Background We have several webapps running on Tomcat 7.0.x (on Linux). For historical reasons, we have populated the "Common" lib (i.e. $CATALINA_HOME/lib) with many application jars. These jars ...
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Why don't companies ship multiple modules within a mobile app? Are there concerns about tight coupling?

Preface: My question does not exclusively pertain to Google and it doesn't exclusively pertain to iOS. I'm only using Google and iOS as examples because they are familiar to many. I could have just as ...
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NodeJS: Freeze dependences before testing and deployment? Check in node_modules?

Suppose you have a NodeJS application. A release could consists of multiple steps: Automated and/or manual tests Deployment (if something goes wrong) Rollback to the last stable version There are ...
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When deploying updates, do you deploy all or selected/changed assemblies?

I'm a developer and I have had several experiences in web application deployment which are the following: Deploy all files then apply configuration values as appropriate to the environment. We've ...
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Security Risks of Unsigned ClickOnce Manifests

Using signed manifests in ClickOnce deployments, it is not possible to modify files after the deployment package has been published - installation will fail as hash information in the manifest won't ...
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Achieving Zero Downtime Deployment

I am trying to achieve zero downtime deployments so I can deploy less during off hours and more during "slower" hours - or anytime, in theory. My current setup, somewhat simplified: Web Server A ...
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Is it mandatory to obtain a licence for distributing software uses bundled Mono runtime?

My software composed of an EXE and dependent class library dlls, built on Windows using visual studio C# Compiler. I've been able to run it directly on Mac OS X using mono myApp.exe without ...
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Are there any benefits to removing unused script files in a web site/project?

VS Web sites/projects come loaded with several .js files, most of which I don't use (e.g., I use a CDN for newer versions of jQuery and jQuery-UI). I know it's safe to remove these unneeded .js files ...
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In which cases build artifacts will be different in different environments

We are working on automation of deployment using Jenkins. We have different environments - DEV, UAT, PROD. In SVN, we are tagging each release and placing same binaries in DEV, UAT, PROD. The ...
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What does “deploy to a physical machine” mean

I was asked whether I've ever "deployed to a physical machine" and I'm seeing this terminology when googling, but not getting a definition. What does it mean? What other way could someone deploy an ...
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Solving the last mile problem in software engineering [closed]

The more I write code the more I realize that writing the code is not the hard part. The hard part is making sure all the dependencies are in order, there are no hard coded paths, that I don't have ...
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Why isn't there a private deployment option for the .NET framework? [closed]

Here are reasons why one would want this: 1) We often don't use all the dlls but we force customers to install the entire .NET framework. It would be great to just deploy the dlls we need. 2) We ...
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Issue deploying Asp.Net MVC 4 website to Azure [closed]

How do you deploy your website in Azure so that it looks exactly like when you run it in your localhost? This is a very simple website that I created following the ASP.NET MVC4 tutorials. However, I ...
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Multi-tenant SaaS product normally running in public cloud, how to offer it in private cloud

I'm beginning to do some research into taking an existing enterprise Multi-tenant SaaS application that I've built and deployed w/ a PaaS on a public cloud, and determining the best way to offer the ...
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Do Windows Installers for internal business applications make sense?

I'm trying to build a general understanding for what's common in this situation so that I can decide if it makes sense to pursue it further. Are installers welcome in a typical corporate environment ...
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Jenkins to automate deployment of ASP.NET applications

Is there any possibility to automate/semi-automate deployments of ASP.NET web applications using Jenkins. It can be under controlled or uncontrolled environments, for uncontrolled user needs to enter ...
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how to convince team and project manager that post-launch deployments are okay for new features

We have a site that launched and is "feature-complete", we've done all that the client has asked for and fixed a few bugs post-launch. However, I noticed that our site's home page is using 100 SQL ...
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What is the difference, if any, between Model and QA environments?

I have worked for various organizations many of whom call their environment that comes after the test/developer environment and before the staging and/or production environment either model or QA. ...
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Forcing ExtJS application updates after deployment

I work on an ExtJS application with a Django backend, and we keep running into issues when we push new code. Our users seldom refresh their browsers, so after a code push we end up with users using ...
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Suggestions to improve small team workflow (CI / Deployment)

I'd like to improve my team's workflow and architecture. Right now we have a LAMP dev server on which every member of the team has a subdirectory. We work directly in this directory via LAN. There is ...
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Best approach to including JBoss's standalone.xml in SVN structure?

Our application server is JBoss 7 as. We use SVN as our code repository. I need to ship our custom security domain in standalone.xml which is a jboss file (not packaged in my application's war file). ...
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Streamlining ASP.Net MVC deployment?

I own a VPS with Windows Server 2012 on it. I can install whatever I want on it. In the past when deploying an ASP.Net MVC project, I would right click the project in the solution and Publish it. I ...
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Script to check minimum requirements for an application [closed]

Is there a well-known, trusted open source script that we could use as a starting point to build a web-based analyser tool for our application that would be similar in functionality to the Firefox ...
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Application deployment with Puppet

I've been researching puppet lately, and I think it could be useful to integrate into my deployment pipeline. Currently, I deploy my apps by manually adding users, creating vhosts, setting ...
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How can I build a C# project (installer) for multiple environments

I would like to propose a solution to our companies problem with building consistent installers for different environments. Our current process is to build an installer for test, perform testing, ...
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How to maintain lots of different variations for deployment, using Git for development

Although there are many similar questions here regarding using GIT for maintaining different versions, none seem to answer my specific case. I'm OK with how to use GIT to do my development, using ...
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When do I need to use Session Replication?

I am working on a number of web projects for a firm. Most of the projects are about one or two pages of input and then doing a save to a MySQL database. My system administrators are pushing to try to ...
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How to deploy a single website to multiple physical servers ?

I want to deploy my website to multiple physical servers. Is there possible methods to save files and setting (and also the user input), on all physical servers, so that servers do the following ...
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What guidelines are best suited for leveraging automatic deployments? [closed]

We are hoping to leverage a static code analysis tool (Sonar) as part of our continuous integration server, and are hoping to determine some useful guidelines to serve as a base for allowing the ...
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Automated deployment/installation of development tools [closed]

My team is looking to automate installation/deployment of all of our development tools. The main driver for this is to ensure that everyone in the team has a consistent development environment setup ...
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How to handle this unfortunately non hypothetical situation with end-users?

I work in a medium sized company but with a very small IT force. Last year (2011), I wrote an application that is very popular with a large group of end-users. We hit a deadline at the end of last ...
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Generating CMakeLists.txt [closed]

I got a bunch of C++ sources files and headers. They may use external libraries such as Boost e.g. I am interested in the process of building binaries for Windows and *nix. Makefiles (*nix) and ...
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Deploying a very simple application

I have a very simple working console application written in C++ linked with a light static library. It is just for testing purposes. Now that the coding part is done, I would like to know the process ...
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Release Management versions control?

We recently experienced a deployment issue where it turned out that the version objects were not in sync in one of the environments. We have a large database group and different teams have different ...
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TFS non-chronological deployment?

We have the following scenario: Changeset #1 is some unfinished buildable checkin Changeset #2 is a completed small task .. Changset #5 completes the work done at CS#1 They all affect the same ...
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Who should get a developer certificate from Apple if client want their company name to show up in App Store

I am about start my first project with client, However I will work as a consultant. So do I need to get developer certificate and post my client's app in app store? Or I should ask my client to get ...
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How do you deploy your ASP.Net MVC3 application to the production server?

I just want to find out the best practice to deploy your MVC3 application and what tool you use to get the job done. I am using Visual Studio 2010. I publish my web site, then manually backup whats ...
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How do companies keep websites hidden when in development?

I am new to this and also a new 19 year old PHP developer that just got hired so I am unsure as to how this works. Many companies when developing their websites keep their sites hidden from being ...
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How to include database changes during application publish

I am maintaining a WinForms application, which talks to a SQL Server database. Sometimes I have to change database schema (for example to alter a sql procedure or add new one). For this purpose I have ...
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Good practices for packaging Python programs

I've been using Python for a while now, both in the context of personal and professional projects. One thing that occured to me recently is that I had never thought about a good way to deploy Python ...
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What is Global Delivery Model?

Many software companies preach in their Website Banners: "Global Delivery Model". Has it anything to do with Deployment?
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What are the design decisions involved in choosing how to expose a Java web application?

There are many ways to expose a Java web application to the consumer: application container (JBoss etc), servlet container (Tomcat etc), OSGi (Knopflerfish etc), self-executable WAR (Winstone etc) and ...

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