A beginner's guide to using Hudson for continuous integration with Drupal

Hudson is a tool for offloading the deployment and automated testing of a software application. You write your code, you push it into version control, and Hudson takes over the tasks of grabbing that code, running an installation/deployment process, testing the application (if you provide it with tests), and reporting back to you those test results.

Steve Merril of TreeHouse Agency at Boston Meetup
Hudson Continuous Integration
Once you know all your tests pass, you have everything you've written simpletests for covered.

Always looking for ways to automate with Hudson.

Bringing automated code review to this.

Roger Lopez made a drush plugin for coder review.

Test-driven development: the client has a data source with a custom file format, so we created a custom feeds parser for it. We know it has to [parse a certain way

Set up a single site, as long as pressflow is online and simpletest module is enabled, hudson can run tests.
can run tests.sh and get reports
hudson is running shell scripts. If it gets a non-zero response, something failed.

It will send private IRC message saying thanks for fixing the build.