The Golight

A group of students at the Hasso-Plattner-Institut (HPI) in Potsdam, Germany came up with a novel way of communicating their project status. They hooked up a homemade stop-light system, dubbed “The Golight” to their continuous integration system that switches the lights on and off based on whether or not their unit tests passed. 

2 comments ↓

#1 Steve Campbell on 02.08.08 at 2:58 pm

This is hardly something new! http://mark.michaelis.net/Blog/BuildStatusUsingLavaLampsByKenNichols.aspx

#2 Michael Haupt on 02.16.08 at 6:08 am

… but simpler, it seems. :-)

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