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08/24/2004: "10-second review: Pragmatic Project Automation"


Mike Clark's latest book, Pragmatic Project Automation is an excellent survey of project automation techniques. Using tools we know and love, he shows us how to automate more than just our tests: he includes sections on building, testing, deploying and monitoring our software. Especially interesting are the presentations of Groovy as an alternative to Ant buildfiles and techniques for monitoring applications while they run. Mike shows us just some of what we can automate on a project, and if we did that much, we'd be rather ahead of the game. I am putting this in my bag for my next project, and we will use the techniques the moment the need for automation becomes apparent. I suspect that will happen quickly. An excellent, quick read. Informative, pragmatic, and a source of other good ideas.