When we started working on the Apex Lodash project we knew we wanted to publicly post our code coverage percentage. To do this we chose to use coveralls.io since it is free for open source projects.

Travis CI

In a previous post I talked about how to setup Travis CI to deploy your Salesforce code automatically. We will be updating the Travis CI configuration to push the testing results to coveralls.

Coveralls

There don’t seem to be too many options around for code coverage display on the Internet. Coveralls has lots of options for various coding languages and a pretty nice interface. Like Travis CI, Coveralls is free for open source projects and they do have paid options that supports private repositories. It does support several other CI platforms if you’re not using Travis CI.

Recently I started working on a project that required a Salesforce CI build system. This has not been a problem for me in the past because I’ve always had a Jenkins host that was setup and maintained by our admins. However, this is a public facing project and I needed something that everyone contributing could have access to.

Travis CI

I had heard of Travis CI before, but had never had a chance to look into it. Travis CI has most of the features that you would expect from any hosted CI solution, but where it drew me in was it’s pricing. It’s free. Well, it’s free if you’re using it for a open public project on GitHub (which I happen to be doing). They do have support for private GitHub repos, but you will have to pay to access them.

Solenopsis

Solenopsisis a project that Scot Floess and I have been working on for several years and it has been doing all of the deployment work for our team since it’s inception. Solenopsis is an extension of the Force.com Ant Migration tool that has a bunch of fancy Ant and Python scripts to help deploy code and manage all that pesky XML.

We’ll be using Solenopsis to deploy to Salesforce via Travis CI. While I use Solenopsis to pull data down and push it back up during development, there is no requirement on the end user using it in order to get the code in the repo. The only “requirement” is that is in the src directory so that we can use other directories to hold our build scripts and other build requirements. If you do use Solenopsis for personal it will make some things easier such as building out the .sfdcignore file which may be needed depending on your configuration.