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A Two-Part Technique for Efficiently Scaling Build and Test Automation

Speaker/s: Josh Nixdorf (Electronic Arts)
Day / Time / Location: Wednesday 5:35- 6:00 Room 2022, West Hall, 2nd Fl
Track / Duration / Format / Audience Level: Programming / 25-Minute / Lecture / All
GDC Vault Recording: Video Recorded
Description: Keeping the build stable is expensive. QA effort is best spent checking for authenticity and fun, not looking for software bugs. Developers can write unit tests or run extensive at-desk testing, but their time is best spent writing and tuning features. Developer-side automated builds and tests help ensure that everyone's time is focused on what they do best, but automation is challenging to scale efficiently; increasing concurrent soak, sniff, and smoke tests often results in duplicate builds or idling while builds copy. Our two-part technique, involving virtual machines and hard-disk virtualization, can alleviate many of the costs associated with scaling automation. We will present our approaches for parallelizing the build and test processes, how virtual machines can help reduce the duration of the check-in to test result cycle and how hard-disk virtualization can be used further facilitate parallelization and avoid lengthy file copies.
Takeaway: This will focus on parallelization of the build and test processes, how virtual machines helped us to double our throughput without buying new automation hardware, and how hard-disk virtualization can be used further facilitate parallelization and reduce the check-in to test result time by eliminating lengthy file copies.

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