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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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Executing commands from Python script

I am working on automation of flashing process of a development board. I have an command line flashing tool which allows me to execute various commands required for flashing the board. I am trying automate the same with a Python script. I am using…
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Deployment failed with error : login failed for user 'xx'

The deployment of the build in TFS failed within 10 seconds with the following error. Deployment fail with error: Login failed for user 'XX' Any help Thanks, suren
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Speeding up ASP.NET website publishing

Is there any way in ASP.NET website project, that allow to publish it from command prompt and I can continue working on project, or if it is not easy to use , at least speed up my publish task? I know about the auto publishing tools like TFS or…
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Build and Integration Environment for Java/Java EE

is there such a thing in a standard manner? including Java Source Code - Test Code - Ant or Maven JUnit Continuous Integration (possibly Cruise Control) ClearCase Versioning Tool Deploy to Application Server in the end I 'd like to have an…
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How to set up an automated mechanism to find build breaks?

In a team where multiple people are working on same file or different files of the same solution it is quite natural that build break happens.. But how to have an automated mechanism where we can find build breaks?
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Set release mode (Java boolean variable) in Jenkins

We are using Jenkins to make our builds. We would like to switch boolean value in release build. Is it possible? Maybe it's better option to do this? In C you could just define a value by passing -D and you call gcc -DUSE_ASD=1 asd.c #ifdef…
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Filter changes from TFS Build Agent

I have a build process that records some information about the build and then checks that information back into TFS. This check back in is causing another build to be triggered. When my build was using CruiseControl, I could filter out changes that…
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CommandLine automation problem - VS2005 Team Edition

I am trying to automate VC++ build via an addIn written using VB.NEt so that we can schedule it using a simple batch file. This addin performs some custom pre-requisites before the build is started. The build is invoked as ... devenv.com /useenv…
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Jenkins: How to decide which of the following jobs should be executed?

I have got a chain of jobs, which builds an application. Let's call this chain 1. I want to include this steps also in the middle of an other chain of jobs (chain 2). If I do that, the last job of chain 1 gets a following job, which I have no…
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CruiseControl.NET & web interface customization

everybody! I'm really puzzled with my build server improvements. The point is that we have a specific build process in our company. On the one hand, it's quite simple: Update source code from SVN Build VisualStudio solution (C++ & C#) Build…
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TFS 2010 Build Automation - restrict Web Deploy requests to only from bulid-controller

Is there a way in IIS 7 to restrict incoming builds so that it only deploys those coming from a certain IP address (the build controller?) I've tried the "Management Service" Page in IIS, and while that seems to be what I want, it does not work.
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Is there any functional automation tool for testing native iPhone applications?

I have been involved in doing web automation and Android automation testing. Currently we are looking for any iPhone functional testing tool which will help us to reduce the number of hours for regression testing. We are looking for an open source…
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How to compose a buildout.cfg for zc.buildout with SVN-based sub projects

I want to make an zc.buildout configuration for production use. In my case, I have two sub-projects from two separate SVN repositories. I want to deploy these into the same web site. Basically, these are two sub-sites that will go into the same…
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How to make a post build script for buildout

I'm using zc.buildout for my project. How do I execute a post-build script -- meaning, after buildout runs, fetches all the eggs and puts everything in place -- now I want it to run a script. Specifically, I want it to run my unit test runner…
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Nexus disabled creation and updating of scripts

I've testing on using ansible to automate creation of a nexus server and when trying to deploy groovy, I get the below error. The automation successfully works upto declaring groovy script in the deploy_groovy.yaml file. TASK [nexus : Declaring…
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