The document discusses a pipeline for continuous integration and deployment using MSBuild conventions. Key goals of the pipeline are to have a short feedback loop, enable rapid deployments, and optimize the process for build grids. The pipeline uses MSBuild conventions to configure builds that can compile code, run unit tests, analyze code quality, deploy to environments like UAT and production, and more with simple commands. Future enhancements proposed include automated rollbacks and cross-browser testing.

1. Mastering
the pipeline
Jorrit Salverda
Technical architect @ AKQA Amsterdam

4. What they have in common
● Little time for project setup
● Many deployments near go-live
● Pipelines up to UAT/PROD

6. Goals
● Short feedback loop
● Rapid deployments
● Optimised for build grids
● Executable on any machine
● Easy to set up

7. MSBuild by convention
● Convention over configuration
● Open sourced on Github (MIT license)
● Easy to upgrade
● Conventions can be overridden

8. Conventions
● Source directory structure
● Javascript and css dirs
● Postfixes for project names
● *.Website
● *.Database
● *.UnitTests
● ... and more

10. /t:Build
● C# (versions the assemblies)
● ASP.NET views
● Javascript (JSHint)

11. /t:RunUnitTests
● Compile only if needed
● NUnit
● Machine Specification
● MSTest

12. /t:Release
● Minify (YUI Compressor)
● Version images, fonts, flash
● Create Azure packages
● Transform configs
● Zip artefacts

13. /t:RunIntegrationTests
● Deploy database and website to INT
● Run integration tests

14. /t:AnalyzeWithSonar
● Code quality (FxCop)
● Coverage (OpenCover)
● Sonar

16. /t:Deploy /p:DeployEnvironment=UAT
● To IIS (MSDeploy)
● To Azure (Powershell commandlets)
● Windows Services (Robocopy)

18. /t:Deploy /p:DeployEnvironment=PROD
● Untested configuration!

19. What's next?
● Automated rollback if smoke test fails
● Hook into monitoring (Github)
● Cross-browser testing (The Guardian)

20. // todo
● Copy those scripts...

23. Thanks
msbuild by convention github repo:
http://goo.gl/w9OcR
introductory blog post:
http://goo.gl/Y0cNW
reach me at:
jorrit.salverda@akqa.com