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Electric Flow 8.0 New Feature: Manual and Automated Retry on Error

Electric Flow 8.0 New Feature: Manual and Automated Retry on Error

Electric Cloud recently released version 8.0 of their build and deployment orchestration tool, Electric Flow. This latest release includes many new features, but the focus of this article will be the ability to retry tasks and stages from a failed pipeline and why...

SPK Develops Dashboard for E*Trade’s Electric Commander

SPK Develops Dashboard for E*Trade’s Electric Commander

Why are dashboards important? In a nutshell, they allow you to visually present information in a way that is meaningful to the reader. They allow the reader to immediately see trends, and more importantly, quickly make decisions or change behavior in order get better...

Electric Commander: Performance Comparison Between ectool and ec-perl

Electric Commander: Performance Comparison Between ectool and ec-perl

Prior to version 5.2, Electric Commander has offered two primary ways to access the API for scripting purposes: ectool and ec-perl. Both allow users to accomplish virtually any task within Commander, but it’s important to note there is a significant performance...

Electric Commander: Transferring Homepage Settings Between Users

Electric Commander: Transferring Homepage Settings Between Users

The Electric Commander homepage allows you to bookmark links and job configurations for easy access. It's easy to add one or two, but if you have a lot of links and you want to share them with other users so that they have the same links as well, its a lot of work to...

Electric Commander: Configuring an Alternate Plugins Directory

Electric Commander: Configuring an Alternate Plugins Directory

Electric Commander, now known as CloudBees CD, allows you to set up an alternate location for your plugins directory. This is a two step process and it's easy to forget the second step. If the second step is not done, the system can appear to still be functioning...

Getting Started with Electric Cloud’s ntest Tool

Getting Started with Electric Cloud’s ntest Tool

Electric Cloud (now known as CloudBees CD) has released an open-source tool called ec-testing for unit testing Electric Commander procedures. In this video below, David Hubbell demonstrates how to download the tool, set it up, and run example test cases....

Understanding Continuous Integration

Understanding Continuous Integration

Continuous Integration (CI) is a software development methodology that uses small and frequent incremental changes to the code base, which are incorporated into a rapid build and test environment. Each change integrated into the source repository is verified by the...