RELENG 2013

Keynote: Release Engineering as a "force-multiplier"  

by John O'Duinn

(Director of Release Engineering at Mozilla Corporation)

Eliciting Operations Requirements for Applications  by Len Bass, Ross Jeffrey, Ingo Weber, Hiroshi Wada and Liming Zhu (NICTA, Australia) [research talk]

Releasing sooner or later? - An optimization approach and its case study evaluation  by Jason Ho and Guenther Ruhe (University of Calgary, Canada) [research talk]

Discussion

Using hg & git for the same codebase  by Hal Wine (Mozilla, Inc.) [practitioner talk]

What effect does Distributed Version Control have on OSS Project Organization?by Peter Rigby, Earl Barr, Chris Bird, Premkumar Devanbu and Daniel German (Concordia University/University College London/Microsoft Research/University of California at Davis/University of Victoria, Canada/US) [research talk]

The Future of Continuous Integration in GNOME by Colin Walters, Germán Poo-Caamaño and Daniel German (Red Hat/GNOME/University of Victoria, Canada) [research talk]

Automating Build, Test, and Release with Buildbot  by Dustin Mitchell and Tom Prince (Mozilla, Inc.) [practitioner talk]

Kanbanize the Release Engineering Process  by Noureddine Kerzazi and Pierre.N Robillard (Payza.com/École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada) [research talk]

Discussion

Keynote: Against All Odds – Completely Overhauling Linkedin's Release Process

by Roman Scheiter

(Director of Engineering Services at LinkedIn)

Self-Service Build and Delivery at Netflix  by Gareth Bowles (Netflix, Inc.) [practitioner talk]

Charon: Declarative Provisioning and Deployment by Eelco Dolstra, Rob Vermaas and Shea Levy (LogicBlox, Inc.) [research talk]

Continuously Releasing at Google by Akos Frohner and Boris Debic (Google, Inc.) [practitioner talk]

Discussion

Packaging Automation for Many Heterogeneous Target Platforms : "make all_the_things" by Moses Mendoza and Matthaus Owens (Puppet Labs) [practitioner talk]

Adding Automatic Dependency Processing to Makefile-Based Build Systems, with Amake  by Jim Buffenbarger (Boise State University, US) [research talk]

Build Maintenance with Formiga  by Ryan Hardt and Ethan Munson (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, US) [research talk]

Discussion

Panel & Wrap-Up