Re: good continuous integration, automatic documentation software for c++

From:
Maxim Yegorushkin <maxim.yegorushkin@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.unix.programmer,comp.programming,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c
Date:
Wed, 3 Jun 2009 05:08:38 -0700 (PDT)
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On Jun 2, 6:06 pm, Johnny Chang <johnny...@gmail.com> wrote:

Started using trac and svn and it is working nicely, but am looking
for some other things to add: continuous integration, automatic
documentation. What suggestions do you guys have for the most full
featured easy to use software for this?

Stuff I am looking for:

build automation / continuous integration
-checkout, checkin working executable svn
-test framework for ease of testing - maybe define a test pattern, use
wildcards, any other features
-works fine without bugs for large compile and test times
-tests multiple clients
-can easily access files outside of svn server.

auto documentation
-extract comments to a html file
-linked source code documentation tree
-have forms or wiki that allows editing and propagates the changes
back into the source code as inline comments
-extraction of any other helpful information for large and complicated
code


GNU make, Doxygen and something like CruiseControl (not
CruiseControl.rb crap though).

What you need to do is to create test and release targets in your
Makefile. test will do the tests, release will do the tests, extract
documentation using Doxygen and whatever else you want it to do.
CruiseControl will watch for changes in Subversion, check them out and
invoke `make test` or `make release`.

--
Max

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