What are Procedures in CloudBees SDA? In CloudBees SDA, procedures are the basis for reusable code. Any engineer familiar with setting up CD pipelines knows the irritation of re-coding the same task in a multitude of different ways for different teams. With...
Software Development & Release Management
10-Point Checklist for Atlassian Server Migrations
Introduction As applications, such as Jira, become more mainstream for Enterprises, it was inevitable that Atlassian and others would create their own service (SaaS) that provides numerous benefits to users across the globe. The benefits of having a SaaS solution...
What is DevOps?
Introduction Hello and welcome to what is DevOps? So in this video we're going to talk through not just the book definition of DevOps but I'm going to give you some examples of how DevOps is applied in an organization and really what it tries to solve. So by that...
SilkTest Integration with PTC Integrity Test Management
Overview In this blog post and video, Carlos Almeida explains how to launch SilkTest Classic or Open Agent test cases from within PTC Integrity (now PTC Windchill RV&S). Pass/Fail verdicts are automatically captured and reported within Integrity Test Session.Silk...
Electric Commander (now CloudBees CD) Dashboard Examples – Silent Video Demo
This is the silent video which ran at the Electric Cloud Sparks 2013 conference. It demonstrates several GWT-based Electric Commander Dashboards developed for our customers. SPK and Associates are a CloudBees Elevate Partner. Contact Us Today to build/customize a...
Electric Commander (Now CloudBees CD) 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 Cloud’s Electric Commander – DynamicMenus and Parameterization
Video Transcript: SPK is the leading provider of custom dashboards and users interfaces for Electric Commander (now part of CloudBees CD). One of our most frequent requested customizations is for input screens featuring dynamically populated and responsive menu...
CloudBees CD’s (formerly Electric Cloud) Electric Commander – Metrics Dashboard
Video Transcript: Electric Command (now known as CloudBees CD) is amazing tool for streamlining and automating your build, test, and deploy software development cycle. But it's usefulness goes even further out-of-the-box. Commander generates a large pool of data...
CloudBees CD (formerly Electric Cloud) Electric Commander – Process Automation Dashboard
Video Transcript: Here at SPK, we strive to mold technology to the particular needs of your business so you can spend less time configuring your tech infrastructure and more time getting your product to market. And process dashboard is means of achieving this for...
Optimal Continuous Integration Best Practices (Part 3)
November, 2021 As I noted in “Continuous Integration Best Practices—Part 1” and “Continuous Integration Best Practices—Part 2,” there are 10 best practice principles associated with Continuous Integration. In the previous articles, we covered the first six. In this...
Creating a CI System
...Continuous Integration Best Practices (Part 2) As I noted in Optimal Continuous Integration Best Practices (Part 1), there are 10 best practice principles associated with Continuous Integration. In Part 1, we looked at the first three. For Part 2, we pick up...
Optimal Continuous Integration Practices (Part 1)
Continuous Integration (CI) is a critical piece of any company’s software development practices, and usually the first effort on the road to DevOps. Within optimal continuous integration practices, engineers submit and test new developments against the main body of...