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Build automation is the act of scripting or automating tasks like compiling, packaging, running tests, deployment etc.

Build automation is the act of scripting or automating a wide variety of tasks that software developers do in their day-to-day activities including things like:

  • Compiling computer source code into binary code
  • Packaging binary code
  • Running tests
  • Deployment to production systems
  • Creating documentation and/or release notes

Advantages

  • Improve product quality
  • Accelerate the compile and link processing
  • Eliminate redundant tasks
  • Minimize "bad builds"
  • Eliminate dependencies on key personnel
  • Have history of builds and releases in order to investigate issues
  • Save time and money - because of the reasons listed above.

See also , and .

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Anything better than CruiseControl for .Net CI?

I've been asked to set up yet another CruiceControl environment for yet another client. I realized that I've been using CC for years without really looking around for competitors. Is there anything else that's sprung up that does the job equally…
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How to run a script after Xcode runs codesign on my iPhone app?

I've got a script written which does some steps to package my build for an Ad Hoc distribution. My first guess was to use a run script phase in my Ad Hoc target. But it looks like codesigning is fixed at the last position in the chain of building…
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MSBuild doesn't pick up references of the referenced project

I bumped into a strange situation with MSBuild just now. There's a solution which has three projects: LibX, LibY and Exe. Exe references LibX. LibX in its turn references LibY, has some content files, and also references to a third-party library…
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Renaming files during ANT copy

I'd like to copy a directory of files, and rename some of them in the process. When I run the script below, nothing copies. If I comment the glob mappers in the file below, the files are copied (without the renaming) Thanks for any help. James
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How to make a SublimeText 2 shortcut to Run Processing sketches on Mac?

I'm using SublimeText 2 to code my Processing sketches, but every time I need to run the program I have to switch to Processing and click the Run button, Textmate have a bundle to automate this process and I would like to do the same with…
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How to synchronize SVN revision and version ressources of EXE/DLL files?

Say I have some C++ project which builds an exe or dll file. The project is checked into a SVN repository. I want to automatically synchronize the revision from SVN with the version resource embedded in my exe/dll file, i.e. the version should be…
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Android - use ant to create build configurations that change configuration values

What I want is a way to have settings that are dependent on build configuration. To give a specific example, my android application connects to a web service. In development, I want the service url to be pulled in from a configurable value. In…
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Team Foundation Server Build variables

Does anyone know (or know where to find, couldn't myself) what variables I can use on a TFSBuild.proj file for my automated builds? For example, $(SolutionRoot) gives me the path to all my source files, but I want to copy the built solution from the…
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Visual Studio Build statistics

I'm interested in how much time I am spending on building my projects every day. Is there any existing tool which provides such statistics? Thanks!
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Is there a NAnt task that will display all property name / values?

Is there a NAnt task that will echo out all property names and values that are currently set during a build? Something equivalent to the Ant echoproperties task maybe?
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How to set up maven 3 local plugin repository

I need to have a completely offline maven repository due to some limitations. According to http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/PluginResolutionException , only are searched for plugins. So I am wondering how to…
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A type safe build system for C++ (something like SBT)

After using Scala's Simple Build Tool (SBT) and loving it, I'm working on a C++ project that makes extensive use of CMake. The CMake files are quite complicated, and it's painful to modify them, or to even understand them. In contrast, I've found…
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Is there a modern replacement for Make?

Make was never a tool that I was in love with and over the years I've used Ant quite a lot but Ant is pretty geared toward Java, just as several other tools (Grunt, Rake, etc.) are all about some other language and tool stack. Is there a modern tool…
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Running PublicResXFileCodeGenerator at compile time

We are using PublicResXFileCodeGenerator to generate *.Designer.cs files from *.resx files. Currently these are generated whenever the .resx is saved or when we right click and choose "Run Custom Tool". I want to be able to run this tool…
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MSbuild for updating the assemblyinfo file

I am writing a batch file to automate a series of tasks. One of these tasks is to update the version of the dlls in my solution, by editing the assemblyinfo.cs file in the various projects in my solution; and then finally calling msbuild.exe to…
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