CI Excellence With Test Automation Engineers
summary
Test automation at Gannett owns CI standards and pipelines and now writes the CI scripts, chef role cookbooks and self‑service labs that let 40 teams deploy repeatable infrastructure. A nine‑month push with the Android proof of concept scales building of ~220 mobile apps by building Jenkins masters with Chef and using auto-scaling Jenkins workers via Scaler and Swarm. Backups restore Jenkins from S3 in ~15 minutes, New Relic monitors pipeline health, and Sauce Labs plus AWS Device Farm run browser and device tests. Continuous testing hits ~95% pass rates with flaky-test tracking.
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chapters (21)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:10What is Gannett
- 0:28Champion of CI
- 1:37Takeaways
- 2:12Continuous Integration
- 4:54Culture Change
- 6:26Expectations
- 9:26Team Structure
- 10:33CI Ownership
- 12:07Single Path to Production
- 14:18Continuous Testing Strategy
- 16:57SelfService Model
- 26:46Key Concepts
- 28:32Responsibilities
- 30:43Cookbooks
- 32:59Cloud Management
- 33:46Node Stage
- 35:41Vision
- 36:11Continuous Improvement
- 37:08Open Positions
- 37:21Questions
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