Lightweight personal continous integration

Getting timely feedback is the key to improved software development productivity and software quality. That's why we have automated testing and CI servers.

Running a full CI server on your machine is a solution I've used in the past for some middle size projects. Using a personnal branch on a distributed SCM is another solution for complex projects / long running branches.

For simple projects, you can easily run a basic CI-like system on your machine. I call this lightweight personal CI.

Jeff Winkler's original nosy script is a great reminder that software should be kept simple and right to the point.

See also Doug Latornell's version

Here's my humble version, with a couple of extra features, in particular Gnome notifications and parsing of the XUnit like XML result.

Too bad I am hitting a lib notify Markup notification issue on Ubuntu 9.04, I can't display pretty HTML. On an unrelated note, launchpad 3.0 launched yesterday.