Software Engineer Notes (Ziv Birer blog)

Upgrade log:

A new KM exists that provide troubleshooting guide on failures in upgrades to ALM 11:  KM1281892  (Useful information about the upgrade process in ALM11)   KM1302383 - describes the error codes of messages during upgrade

QC provides documentation on tuning QC for performance issues.

Here are several good KBs (or KM) on QC upgrade:

In QC9.2 there is no verify tool. Customers can download standalone verify and repair tool for this.

I found several forums on QC (ALM):

Some ALM 11 upgrade documentation (HP Application Lifecycle Management - Quality Center 11): Documentation HP ALM Upgrade Best Practices     HP ALM Upgrade Manual   HP ALM Upgrade Troubleshooting Guide   Upgrade from quality center 92 to ALM1 Upgrade Assessment Tool  (need HP Passport account)  Videos (Training): Other User Guide  (pdf) Installation Guide  (pdf)  DB best practices PPT from one customer     

Run google search:  site:*/qcbin

HP Application Lifecycle Management Add-ins page:  link

You can find some of jenkins and plugins source code in:

Jenkins matrix job run all combinations of defined axis.

When Jenkins invoke shell scripts, it pass its environment variables to it. Include workspace path. But file separator is Java like ('/') instead of windows like ('\').

Jelly is the way to add more information to notifications email of jenkins (using  Email-ext plugin )

My favorite productivity tools:

we had strange problem. Sometimes jenkins aborted maven jobs without reason.

Groovy bosp build plugin allow to run groovy script after build finish.

Today, several jenkins job continue to work but their console log ended with long exception: ERROR: Asynchronous execution failure java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: hudson.util.IOException2: Unable to read    

Good references:

Create a slave is simple but instructions in wiki are not so full.

I failed to install FxCop 10 according to microsoft instructions .

I tried to run groovy build step and got below error. This post will describe how I solved the problem. Caught: groovy.lang.MissingPropertyException: No such property: hudson for class: script

Useful resource when writing groovy scripts for jenkins (its object model)

Good services for developers: Online HTML editor Online HTML formatter   Online XML formatter Online SQL formatter Online XSL tester    

In previous post I wrote how to write exclude file using findbugs GUI. Now there is a need to tell maven where is the exclude file.

findbugs   is important java tool for static code analysis. There is also maven  findbug plugin . The tool write XML report file. Sometimes, there is a need to exclude from the report some detected bug. findbugs can use  filter files  to include or exclude bugs. The maven plugin can use this files using  exclude property . There is simple way to generate that file:

Jenkins build tool create several environment variables before job begins. This list is useful for building email templates and build steps. Here are some of the variables:

maven is great build tool. I found it easier to learn about by first watching basic video tutorials.