Frank Carver's musings about software and life
I’m a strong believer that manual steps should be automated wherever possible. One of the areas of our current product which seems to require an inordinate amount of manual “faffing” is provisioning and deployment.
Chef, a ruby system for distributing and automating just these kinds of tasks seems an interesting solution.
Every now and then we discuss ways of better automating the manual tests which accompany our web applications. This is especially poignant right now as both the development and test teams have been recently reduced in size. We have had some success with Watir in the past, but it was always dependent on Internet Explorer and Windows. So it’s cool to read that there is now an equivalent for Chrome.
ThoughtWorkers on Open Source: Announcing ChromeWatir release 1.0.0
Jez Humble from Thoughtworks writes about the problems of deployment and the advantages of automating the process. Oh, and he also pushes their new deployment automation product 