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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.

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Pass user credentials with curl command in powershell,

I am giving a curl command in powershell like : curl -u username:password and it throws the below error: Invoke-WebRequest : Parameter cannot be processed because the parameter name 'u' is ambiguous. Possible matches include: -UseBasicParsing -Uri…
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i need to tell selenium to click on the next day in calender im using selenium 4.4 and python 3.10.6

guys I need your assistance. I have the next HTML page enter image description here I need to write a code to check today's date and automatically click on the next day in the calendar enter image description here currently, this is the code I'm…
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Only offer TFS 2010 build for testing when they have a certain build quality

When a nightly build is done with TFS 2010 team build, the build number is automatically registered in Test Manager to be picked up by testers to start testing on. But I need to control the version numbers that are listed in Test Manager to be used…
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Batch script that automates the building of a C# solution

I need to create a batch script that: git checkouts a branch git pulls it build the C# solution store the built C# solution in a location specified by the user I have done steps 1 and 2 and they work fine. I am having problems with steps 3 and…
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In my robot framework, i want to have the ability to execute my smoke and regression tests separately via Jenkins. How can achieve the same?

In my robot framework, I have 80 test cases which are available in a git repo. Out of these 80,i want to run 10 test cases as a part of Smoke testing which are tagged as Smoke. Also, if i want to run regression, all 80 test cases should run. I want…
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Trying to find way to automate clicking button process on a company application with out images

I have a script that is used to login in to a company-made application and click the right buttons like "continue", or "ok", etc. to perform a certain process. However, I have had to use screenshots of these buttons to click in order to do this…
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Apache Ant does not include any file using my pattern

Here is zip task: What I do not understan is why it do not…
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How do I setup a global variable of epoch time and milliseconds to my test suite in robot framework?

I am actually working on setting up two API request to start DB data exchange job in my robot framework. The endpoint requires variety of variable like ${startTime} in epoch format, ${timePeriod}, minutes in mills or $cronExpression} to make the…
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Is there any package for building app for IOS on windows?

I want to make my game engine for mobile platform (Android and IOS) and I looking for suitable packages for it. If everything is clear with the creation of a project for Android, there is a Gradle builder and SDK and NDK packages for it. But for IOS…
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TFS Builds Queuing

I'm facing this issue in a build. Other Errors and Warnings 1 error(s), 0 warning(s) Failed to create directory '\\win-akk2jup2ka\share\UICoded Build\UICoded Build_20110817.4'. Details: The network path was not found.
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how should i Run maven project from Jenkins when both Jenkins and Repos are on different machines?

I am trying to set up a CI pipeline in one of my maven projects and was confused about one of the concepts of Jenkins. below are the steps I did Created a maven Automation project in Java Installed a Jenkins -Server on my local machine created an…
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How can I generalize a custom command into a generic-make-rule-like construct?

In this question: How can I build a fatbin file using CMake? we saw how to formulate a pair of add_custom_command() and add_custom_target() commands, for building a .fatbin file out of a .cu file: add_custom_command( OUTPUT my_src.fatbin …
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Is there any good build tool that stays out of my way?

As the title says, I want to have a build tool that quite much stays out of my way. I would rather want to specify rules, rather than steps in the build process. I wan to say that I want a binary file with a name placed in the root directory of my…
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One Build - multiple outputs (64/32 Bit )

One of projects in our solution references a third party .NET C++ assembly which exists as 64 and 32 bit version. As we wanna provide our application for 32 & 64 bit systems we currently start two Builds (TFS 2008/Team Build) while each build is…
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How to extract the auth bearer token for the given url using python?

Scenario: I'm trying to automate an API with get request. It requires Auth bearer token. However, the token keeps changing. Is there a way to fetch the Auth bearer token dynamically during the runtime in python? Please help...
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