When selecting Build Automation solutions, consider these crucial features:
Ease of integration with existing tools
Scalability to accommodate growth
Support for multiple programming languages
Robustness in error handling
Comprehensive logging and reporting
Ease of integration ensures that the chosen solution seamlessly works with your existing ecosystem. This minimizes disruptions and enhances productivity. Scalability is vital for growing businesses that may need to adapt to increased demand and complexity without overhauling their systems. Support for multiple programming languages provides flexibility and future proofs your setup against potential changes in development strategies.
Robustness in error handling is crucial to maintaining workflow continuity and minimizing downtime, as it ensures rapid identification and rectification of issues. Comprehensive logging and reporting features provide valuable insights into the build process, facilitating performance optimization and proactive problem-solving. These aspects are essential for maintaining high efficiency levels and continual improvement of the Build Automation process.
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Java Architect at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Vendor
2017-02-22T12:00:36Z
Feb 22, 2017
Easy to setup and configure. Good logging, alarm setting and support most of the build softwares. Also allow to add custom plugins to provide additional features and integration.
Works at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Vendor
2017-01-18T12:44:10Z
Jan 18, 2017
- works well with your build setup, can extract useful information when something breaks, and display/report it in a useful way.
- setup a useful pipeline shouldn't need days.
- good plugin infrastructure and maintained plugins.
The most important things are simplicity in adding custom functions and rules and simple, intuitive model for getting up and running (the core domain - tasks, dependencies etc.). Documentation is important as well, preferably with a lot of examples.
Solution Management at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Vendor
2015-03-03T07:54:29Z
Mar 3, 2015
That would be the capability of the vendor to keep up with the high pace of the technical evolution of the products it needs to build/test/automate.
Secondly given that we are all using some kind of DVCS these days, its capability to handle complex multi repo automation supporting branch/feature builds.
Build automation tools automate the time-consuming tasks inherent in creating a “build,” or usable version of an application. They automate and orchestrate the sometimes complex processes of compiling computer source code into binary code and packaging that binary code as well as running automated tests
Some PeerSpot members use build automation solutions. In reviews, they offer opinions on the most significant selection factors to consider when looking at this type of software. One theme...
When selecting Build Automation solutions, consider these crucial features:
Ease of integration ensures that the chosen solution seamlessly works with your existing ecosystem. This minimizes disruptions and enhances productivity. Scalability is vital for growing businesses that may need to adapt to increased demand and complexity without overhauling their systems. Support for multiple programming languages provides flexibility and future proofs your setup against potential changes in development strategies.
Robustness in error handling is crucial to maintaining workflow continuity and minimizing downtime, as it ensures rapid identification and rectification of issues. Comprehensive logging and reporting features provide valuable insights into the build process, facilitating performance optimization and proactive problem-solving. These aspects are essential for maintaining high efficiency levels and continual improvement of the Build Automation process.
Easy to setup and configure. Good logging, alarm setting and support most of the build softwares. Also allow to add custom plugins to provide additional features and integration.
- works well with your build setup, can extract useful information when something breaks, and display/report it in a useful way.
- setup a useful pipeline shouldn't need days.
- good plugin infrastructure and maintained plugins.
The most important things are simplicity in adding custom functions and rules and simple, intuitive model for getting up and running (the core domain - tasks, dependencies etc.). Documentation is important as well, preferably with a lot of examples.
That would be the capability of the vendor to keep up with the high pace of the technical evolution of the products it needs to build/test/automate.
Secondly given that we are all using some kind of DVCS these days, its capability to handle complex multi repo automation supporting branch/feature builds.