How to develop a Nightly Builder

I was told to create a too开发者_如何学JAVAl like a Nightly Builder for a JUnit project. It's a client-server project with oracle database.The tests are based on QTP. Also there is a test interface written on C#. The tester can click on the interface to choose which tests to run and get a report from each test. So I have to make this procedure automated. So what tools should I use? Thanks in advance Best regards

Have you considered using CruiseControl or like tool? We use this at my work and it was easy to get up and running with Junit and/or TestNG. Other tools to consider are buildbot, continuum, hudson, etc. (Go to google and type "cruisecontrol vs" and see a bunch of other auto builder tools.) Then see how they handle nightly builds.... here's a reference for CruiseControl.

You should use Quartz. In the quart scheduling xml file you can specify it to build your project. In your project you should have junit test cases execute whenever a build happens. This way you can achieve a daily build process. If your project already utilizes Spring framework then you can use the spring job scheduler helper library too (it's a wrapper around quartz).

Ideally you should use hudson to manage the daily builds but I am not sure if your organization utilizes it or not.

Hope this helps.