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Plugins Webinar Replay and Q&A

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Today’s webinar Extending AnthillPro with Plugins is now available for replay. We had some great questions in Webinar that we want to cover here.

  • Q: Are you allowed to choose between different project types? (i.e. have multiple property plugins installed)
    • A: Yes. If you use project properties integrations to define common project settings, you can create several plugins and select from those when configuring a project. A project can use none, some or all of the plugin property groups.
  • Q: When I’m writing a plugin, can I use a language like Beanshell?
    • A: Sure. You can basically write plugin scripts in any language. Typically, scripting languages like Perl, VBScript, shell scripts, or Groovy are used, but the plugin system is language agnostic. You could even write a small application, package it in a plugin and invoke it.
  • Q: Do you have plugins or integrations for HP Quality Center?
    • A:Yes. We integrate with Quality Center both as a defect / issue tracker and as a tool for launching tests and gathering test results.

Extending AnthillPro with Plugins

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Does your company have a custom build and release process? Shouldn’t your build and release solution reflect your custom processes and toolsets?

With the release of AnthillPro 3.7, Urbancode introduced a new Plugin system. The Plugin system allows new AnthillPro step types, written in the scripting language of your choice (Groovy, Perl, Python, Ruby, etc). In addition to allowing for new integrations for commercial, open source, or in-house tools, Plugins can be used to expand existing integrations, standardize project configuration and solve unique automation challenges. More than a dozen Plugins are available from Urbancode today including: static analysis integrations, notifications to Twitter, builds with Ruby, data publishing to Sonar, issue tracking with Rally or TeamForge, and loading property file values in AnthillPro properties.

For AnthillPro users who want a custom fit to their process, and partners looking to add support for their tool to the AnthillPro platform, Jeffery Fredrick and Eric Minick invite you to join them on April 20th (or via recording) for this presentation where they will cover:

  • Finding, uploading and configuring existing Plugins
  • Plugin authoring: A brief how-to on writing Plugins
  • ahptool: the command line utility supporting Plugins

Recorded Webcasts

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We’ve made our last two Webinars available for playback at your convenience.

  • Death to Manual Deployments: Manual deployments are slow, inconsistent and fail in production. Other than that, they’re fine. Listen to Jeffery Fredrick and Eric Minick as they discuss what’s wrong with Manual Deployments, why Automated Deployments are better and best practices for building on automation.
  • Build and Deployment Automation for the Lean Economy: Teams today are challenged by the need to get much more done without dramatically increasing headcount. Join Jeffery and Eric as they share techniques for applying tools from Lean manufacturing to the build and deployment processes.