Build and Test in the Cloud

Many organizations are looking to cloud computing to reduce equipment costs, eliminate some overhead, and improve go-to-market time. As an agile practitioner you may be wondering how you can leverage dynamic cloud computing to its best advantage. Darryl Bowler shares ways agile teams use cloud provisioning techniques today to provide instantaneous build-test resources and how they scale and grow build-test farms on demand. He demonstrates the popular Hudson build tool that implements continuous integration and continuous feedback to promote build asset reuse. Darryl then discusses tools you can use for on-demand performance and load testing in the cloud. Combining these build-test techniques with cloud technologies provides scaling and more agility for your software teams. Take back a list of the wide selection of freely available tools that can help you get started and the confidence to begin your journey into the cloud.