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Disadvantages of Bamboo – Bamboo Expert Review

scmgalaxy K — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:41:42 +0000

Bamboo Disappointment
Being a big fan of Atlassian’s Confluence and Jira, it was with much anticipation that installed Bamboo, the continuous integration (CI) engine they’ve released. Perhaps these high expectations led to my ultimate disappointment with Bamboo, but truly the features I’ve come to expect in a commercial CI product are nowhere to be found.

No concept of inherited project structure.
If you have 20 modules you would like to build, defining behavior and properties for each is a daunting task. QuickBuild and AntHillPro both allow for a hierarchal organization of modules, so that a child may inherit properties (like environmental variables, build targets, etc) of its parent. In Bamboo, when creating a “Plan”, I can clone an existing module, but that’s it. Should I have the need to change a property for all plans, I’ll be forced to configure each through the web GUI. A tedious process — even with Cruisecontrol I could search & replace config.xml in a text editor to make wholesale changes.

Alien nomenclature
In Bamboo, you have top-level “projects”, and beneath them you have “plans”, which represent the modules being built. I’ve never used the word “plan” before when describing a module’s build, and frankly the limited options offered by Bamboo to govern build behavior makes it a dubious word choice.

No passing of properties
It is sometimes desirable to direct a CI engine to pass arbitrary properties to one’s build process, and vice versa. I don’t mean “static” environmental variables, rather I refer to dynamic properties like “version number”. No such functionality is present in Bamboo. Luntbuild and Quickbuild both allow for this using OGNL expressions.

No concept of build promotion
Most commercial CI products have evolved to include “Application Lifecycle Management”, so you may describe how a build can go from being development-status to gold. Implicit in this is a workflow allowing QA to promote and release builds. None of this is even hinted at in Bamboo — it does not even tag your build.

Reference:
http://poorinnerlife.blogspot.com/2007/09/bamboo-disappointment.html

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Bamboo – A Continuous Integration Server – Complete Guide

scmgalaxy K — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:27:43 +0000

Bamboo – A Continues Integration Server

Continuous integration (CI) brings faster feedback to your development process, preventing bugs from piling up and reducing the risk of project delays.

Bamboo enables development teams of any size to adopt CI in minutes, easily integrate it with their work day and scale their build farm using elastic resources in the Amazon EC2 cloud.

Continuous integration (CI) brings faster feedback to your development process, preventing bugs from piling up and reducing the risk of project delays.

Bamboo enables development teams of any size to adopt CI in minutes, easily integrate it with their work day and scale their build farm using elastic resources in the Amazon EC2 cloud.

Bamboo makes every stage of continuous integration adoption easy, intuitive and pain-free.

Set up your first CI build in minutes
Integrate/ Collaboration CI with your current tools and workflow
Scale your build farm on-premises or in the cloud!
Analyse and improve your build performance
Extend Bamboo with plugins and the REST API
Full feature list and system requirements

Integrate/ Collaboration

Bamboo lets you pick how and when you’re notified about builds and integrates easily with tools you’re already using, so your team will be able to work together to keep your builds green!

Notifications via email, RSS, IM or IDE pop-up:
With Bamboo each team member can choose how and when to be notified:

Email, RSS, IM or IDE pop-up notifications
Customised email templates (HTML or plain-text)

Choose which builds to be notified about:

All builds for a project
Specific build plans
Every time a build finishes, only when it fails X times, only when it hangs, or only when it times out

Priorities your build queue
When your build agents are busy, Bamboo builds go into a queue.

Need to see the results of a build ASAP? You can:

Escalate builds to the front of the queue with one click.
Stop in-progress builds.
Move lower-priority builds to the back of the line.

Apply labels and comments to build results
Why did a build fail? What did you fix to turn it green again? Which builds have been tested by your QA team? What builds are approved for release to customers? Bamboo let’s you provide content to your builds results using labels and comments.

Apply labels and comments via your Web browser, IDE, or Bamboo’s unique 2-way IM system
Subscribe to an RSS feed of all build results with certain labels (e.g. “QA_FAILED”, “PATCH”,etc.)

Run and fix builds from Eclipse and IntelliJ
Bamboo integrates with Eclipse and IntelliJ IDEA to bring build management and notification into the IDE:

Run, label and comment builds
Receive pop-up notifications for builds you care about
Quickly identify failing tests and re-run them locally with just one click

Link builds to JIRA issues
Bamboo integrates with JIRA and allows you to easily:

View all builds related to an issue
View all issues related to a build, and mark them resolved
Embed build status and summary gadgets into your JIRA project dashboards

View changes that triggered builds with FishEye
By integrating Bamboo with FishEye, you can quickly see what files were changed to trigger a build and what JIRA issue the changes were made for. Want to see exactly what changed? FishEye diffs are just a click away!

Run Clover Test Optimization and code coverage
Integrate Clover for Java Test Optimization and code coverage, and you’ll instantly get faster builds and better code quality insights!

Clover Test Optimization can make your Java unit and functional tests run several times faster
View method, branch and statement coverage
See when and where coverage drops over time

Display results in Confluence dashboard portlets
Bamboo provides portlets that can easily be embedded on any Confluence page, so you can keep every project stakeholder up to date on project status.

See pass/fail status, duration, and number of failed tests for recent runs of a build plan.
View the latest status for all builds in a project.

Embed JavaScript widgets in any HTML page
Bamboo provides JavaScript widgets that can be embedded into any HTML page. With just a few lines of code, create custom pages that include:

Latest build results
Latest changes
Last result of all builds in a project
Plan summary graphs

Scale Your Build System

As your team runs more and more CI builds, you’ll want to add more computing power to maintain fast feedback on your build and test results.

Bamboo makes scaling your build system a snap with:

Remote agents that run on-premises
Elastic agents in the Amazon EC2 cloud.

Remote agents

Your Bamboo server can manage dozens of remote agents simultaneously, taking advantage of available computing power to provide the fastest feedback possible. With remote agents you can:

Run multiple builds at once to reduce feedback times
Test on different platform configurations

Elastic agents

Elastic agents are remote agents that run in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). By using the cloud, you can instantly scale your build environment as your development cycles ebb and flow and build queues become longer. Bamboo makes it easy to customize and manage your elastic agents:

Schedule agents to start and stop based on known peaks and valleys in your need for CI builds.
Cut operational costs by taking advantage of EC2’s reserved instance pricing and availability zones.
Customise agent images with different operating systems, installed software, and computing power to create the most flexible building and testing system possible.
Reduce data transfer and startup times by using Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) for persistence.

Every build agent (remote or local) has specific capabilities that are used to match the requirements of queued builds.

Bamboo’s web interface makes it easy to manage all your agents and view a log of recent activity for each agent.

Analyse and Improve Your Builds

Your team is running builds on every commit, comprehensive performance and functional tests are running every night, and your build farm has been scaled out. Wondering where and how you can make improvements? Bamboo makes it easy to see the performance of your builds and identify trouble spots and possible improvements.

Find out why a build failed
View build plan performance across time
See what’s breaking most so you can investigate
Compare several plans
Compare team performance and drill into author details

What happened?
When your builds turn red, you want to fix them as fast as possible! Bamboo provides information to your team that makes root-cause analysis easier, so you can turn the build green again ASAP.

Full stack traces for compilation failures
Full stack traces for test failures
Highlighting of newly failed tests
Click-through to the failing code from within the IDE

Build plan summaries at a glance
Bamboo’s plan summary view presents a wealth of information about each build plan including:

Results of the latest build
Historical pass percentage and average build time
Result, duration, and number of failed tests for recent builds
Duration and failure trends across time

Find your trouble spots
Bamboo identifies problem areas within each build based on its performance history including:

Most common failures
Tests that take longest to fix
Long-running tests

Compare your build plans
Which builds are turning red the most often? Which builds are taking longest to run? Bamboo reports provide useful information within a few clicks, for the exact set of plans you care about. Reports include:

Success percentage
Duration
Activity
of tests
of failed tests
Time to fix failures
Clover code coverage

View the CI scorecard
Who’s submitting bullet-proof code? Who’s going to buy beer for breaking the most builds? Bamboo provides insightful reports for:

Full Teams: # of builds triggered / failed / fixed
Individuals: build history, last 10 triggered / failed / fixed
Groups: Success percentage, # of failed / fixed builds

Extend Bamboo

Bamboo works great right out of the box, and it can be extended to fit your exact needs:

Install 3rd party plugins from the Atlassian Plugin Exchange to add support for additional SCMs, test tools and more.
Create your own Bamboo plugins. Get help from Atlassian and other Bamboo developers in the Bamboo Development Forum and then share your plugins on the Atlassian Plugin Exchange
Use Bamboo’s comprehensive REST API to integrate Bamboo with other tools or automate common tasks.

System requirements and supported development tools

CI server and agent operating systems	Windows, Linux, Mac OS X
Cloud platforms	Amazon EC2 (Linux, Windows)
SCM repositories	Built-in support: Subversion, CVS, Perforce Supported via plugin: Git, Github, Mercurial, Clearcase, Accurev, Dimension
Programming languages	All languages supported — Java, C/C++, C#, VB.net, PHP, Ruby, Python, perl, …
Builders	Ant, Maven, Maven2, make, NAnt, Visual Studio (devenv, MSBuild), custom command line, shell scripts
Test tools	JUnit, any tool with JUnit XML output including: Selenium, TestNG, NUnit, CppUnit, PHPUnit, PyUnit (plugin), PMD (plugin)
Code coverage tools	Atlassian Clover, Corbertura (Plugin), RCov (Plugin)

Build and agent management

Build configuration	Plan to agent capability matching Build artifact management Build notification configuration Bulk editing of multiple plans Build result and artifact expiration
Build triggers	Commit-triggered builds Manual builds Scheduled builds Dependency-triggered builds
Build queue management	Build-queue re-ordering Hung-build detection Configurable queued build timeouts Elastic agent startup
Build result management	Label build results via Web browser, IDE, or 2-way IM Comment build results via Web browser, IDE, or 2-way IM Create a Mylyn task to fix failed builds View the most popular labels, all build results with a label, or all labels applied to a build plan.
Agent configuration	local, remote and elastic agents Builder, JDK and custom capabilities
Agent management	Agent status monitoring

Build result notifications

RSS feed	All builds or all failed builds across all plans All builds or all failed builds of a specific plan All builds with a specific label
Email	Customized email templates All results or all failed results for a build plan
Instant message	Google Talk, Jabber, other XMPP-based clients All results or all failed for a build plan Commment on build results via IM Label build results via IM
IDE notification	Pop-up notifiers Pass/fail icons in status bar

External tool integrations

IDE connectors	Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA
JIRA	View and manage issues related to a build result View all builds related to an issue View builds related to a JIRA project Display JIRA dashboard gadgets for latest build status and build plan summaries
Confluence	View latest result of a build plan View recent results for projects, plans, or authors Charts for recent build duration and test failure count Charts for average build duration and test failure % over time
FishEye	View committed changes that triggered a build One-click diff and change history from Bamboo build results
Other tools	JavaScript widgets including latest builds, plan status, and summary graphs

Elastic Bamboo

Elastic agent configuration	Amazon Machine Image (AMI) customisation Elastic Block Storage (EBS) persistence
Elastic Agent Management	Web browser and SSH management Start agents from build queue Agent scheduling Agent usage tracking

Build analysis and reporting

Build plan reports	Duration, failed tests for recent builds % Successful builds, average build duration over time Test statistics per plan Individual test history Clover — code coverage per plan Clover — lines of code per plan Avg. time to fix builds
Author reports	Build statistics per author Build results per author Activity, failures, fixes per author

Security and user management

Authentication	Single sign-on with Atlassian Crowd LDAP integration
Permissions and access control	User and group definitions and permissions Anonymous user permissions Plan-level permissions

Extending Bamboo

Plugins	Bamboo plugin framework Dozens of 3rd party plugins available for download
API	REST API

Reference:

Features:
http://www.atlassian.com/software/bamboo/features/
Bamboo: getting Started
http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BAMBOO/Bamboo+101
Forum
http://forums.atlassian.com
Plugins
https://plugins.atlassian.com/search/by/bamboo
http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BAMBOO/Bamboo+Plugin+Guide
Jira and Bamboo
http://www.atlassian.com/better-together/progress_report.jsp

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Top 50 Bamboo Interview Questions with Answers

1. What is bamboo?

Answer: b) A type of grass

2. What makes bamboo a unique material?

Answer: b) Its ability to grow quickly

3. How long does it take for bamboo to reach maturity?

Answer: b) 3 years

4. What is the primary use of bamboo?

Answer: a) Construction

5. Is bamboo weather-resistant?

Answer: a) Yes

6. What is the tensile strength of bamboo?

Answer: a) Stronger than steel

7. What are the environmental benefits of bamboo?

Answer: c) Both a and b.

8. What is the most common color of bamboo?

Answer: b) Brown

9. Can bamboo be used to make paper products?

Answer: a) Yes

10. What is the fastest-growing type of bamboo?

Answer: a) Moso bamboo

11. What is the diameter of the largest bamboo culm?

Answer: a) 50 cm

12. What is the primary challenge with harvesting bamboo?

Answer: a) It is difficult to cut down.

13. What is the process of converting bamboo into a flooring product called?

Answer: a) Carbonization

14. What is the average lifespan of bamboo flooring?

Answer: a) 20-30 years

15. Can bamboo be used as a food source?

Answer: a) Yes, in some cultures

16. What is the most common method of preserving bamboo?

Answer: c) Boiling

17. Can bamboo be used for musical instruments?

Answer: c) Yes, for a variety of instruments

18. Is bamboo fire-resistant?

Answer: c) It depends on the treatment technique

19. What is the name for the process of reshaping bamboo into a curved shape?

Answer: a) Bending

20. What is the primary use of bamboo shoots?

Answer: a) Food

21. What is the name for the Japanese art of bamboo basket weaving?

Answer: c) Taketori

22. Can bamboo be recycled?

Answer: a) Yes

23. What is the process of creating a bamboo fence?

Answer: b) Weaving the culms together vertically

24. How does bamboo compare to hardwood in terms of hardness?

Answer: c) It depends on the specific type of bamboo or hardwood.

25. Can bamboo be used to make furniture?

Answer: c) Yes, for indoor and outdoor furniture

26. What is the most common type of bamboo used for construction purposes?

Answer: a) Moso bamboo

27. What is the name for the joint of a bamboo culm?

Answer: a) Node

28. Can bamboo be grown in different climates?

Answer: b) Yes, but it grows best in tropical climates.

29. Is bamboo eco-friendly?

Answer: c) It depends on how it’s grown and harvested

30. What is the process of creating bamboo panels?

Answer: b) Pressing the bamboo together under high pressure and heat

31. Can bamboo be used for water storage?

Answer: a) Yes

32. What is the name for the process of creating bamboo charcoal?

Answer: a) Carbonization

33. What is the name for the traditional Japanese tea ceremony using bamboo tea whisks?

Answer: a) Sado

34. Can bamboo be used to make bicycles?

Answer: c) Yes, for high-end bicycles

35. Is bamboo resistant to insects?

Answer: c) It depends on the species of insect

36. What is the name for the traditional Chinese abacus made of bamboo?

Answer: a) Suanpan

37. Can bamboo be used for roofing?

Answer: c) Yes, for modern roofing

38. What is the name for the process of creating a bamboo bike frame?

Answer: a) Laminating

39. Can bamboo be used for paper pulp?

Answer: c) Yes, for high-quality paper