Automated Testing and Profiling for Call of Duty

In this 2018 GDC talk, Activision's Jan van Valburg outlines how Activision's continuous integration tooling for Call of Duty works under the hood, and how it's different from other common solutions.

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[SmartK]

I remember doing a detailed dashboard for a customer company. After a presentation the big boss asked if it could be a bit more simple for him. I told him, yeah.. we could strip this, merge that. But he wanted even simpler. So I jokingly told him he could have a semaphore with two colors good/bad. He rejoiced. That was the moment I knew I have to get out.

[Sinbad]

Woah, on my 200 people studio we had like 3-5 worker PCs on Jenkins for building and only 1 devkit of each platform to Dev/QA stuff only. His stats are really another level. :o

[falngsumo]

This is a nice sales pitch for compass

[paulcarroll]

Excellent presentation. Helped me understand how my tools team manages our companies' Jenkins build.

[taguetrash]

That's a really good CI design, damn.

[pecet]

Jenkins can also use pipeline scripts stored in vcs e.g. Git. Old configuration way via gui is not the only way

[carstenklein]

are you serious, sleep wait? randomly failing tests FTW.