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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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TCL threads for run a script and update the GUI

I've a tcl script which runs another tcl script. When the script is called, it creates a log file which is supposed to be updated in the text box(TCL GUI). I tried and failed, below is the code So I'm planning to run the script in a thread thread1…
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Automated Build - Stop Building if NUnit Tests Fail

I have a simple batch file that calls MSBuild to build my Visual Studio solution, then runs the solution's NUnit tests, and then uses Wix to create an MSI. However I can't figure out how to stop the build process if any of the unit tests fail. I…
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python script to find the difference between forked repository with the remote github repository

I have forked github repository to my github account and cloned to my local machine, whenever I want to execute my tool written in python, I need to make sure that my local copy [it may be on master or any other branch] is exactly same as what is…
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A way to commit TeamCity build products to Perforce?

Building works fine but the last thing puzzles me... how to commit build products back to the P4 repository? It doesn't look like there's no pre-defined setting or build step/feature for that? It's super-weird to me that I would have to write my own…
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How to Build | Code an Indeed Bot to Automate Applying to Applications?

I’m interested in and researching how to build an indeed bot that applies to applications for me as well as all the other application job sites. so I can work a lot smarter and have more leads and clients coming in. I want to automate this process…
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Assembling plugin application in visual studio

I have a C# application which can be extended by plugins. The application consists of entry application, multiple general plugins and usually one customer specific plugin. All the plugins go to a plugins folder of the main application into their…
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Is it possible to run automation tests in Jenkins using maven without Testng or Junit?

We have created a testing framework as a general java project without using junit or Testng. Now, we have have converted this project into maven project. Now, the question is that can we run this project through Jenkins?
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Get build ID from artifactory URL in Jenkins

I have a Jenkins setup that generates a tar archive periodically and pushes it to the artifactory. I want to be able to fetch the details of the jenkins job, given any artifactory build URL. Is there any REST API that accepts the artifactory build…
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Create bootable OVF image using root filesystem folder from the Linux command line

I'd like to ask if there is a way to create OVF images using the Linux command line from a specific folder. This folder would contain a Linux root file system. The generated OVF files would later be imported into VSPhere and they need to be able to…
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CMake facility for setting the C++ standard to "at least C++NN"

I'm writing a library in C++, which supports C++11 or later. Luckily, with C++14 it can avoid certain external dependencies. So, I would like to build it with newer C++ if that's available, but I can live with C++11. How can I express this in CMake?…
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How to build a java project with all the required files and folders?

I created a simple application which will read all the files and folders kepts inside a folder. Whenever I build the project, I only get the jar file but the folder where the file and folders are kept have to be created. Is this supposed to be like…
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Error using Ant to create EJB after upgrading WAS from 6.0 to 7.0

Ant task breaks at the tag. The exception message is : [wsejbdeploy] Error executing deployment: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException. Error is com.ibm.etools.ejbdeploy.batch.plugin.BatchExtension. [wsejbdeploy]…
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count execution of specific commands

How can I count how often a specific program / command is launched under linux? Can I avoid a wrapper-shell-script ? I need to count and measure my build cycle to convince management of better tools :-)
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How do I automate my webdriver to take data from excel sheet and use launch it?

So I have written a script in selenium to launch a webpage and extract information like, title name, fitment, number of reviews, verify if some words are present in the page. For example I used this below code: String text =…
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How to check frequently to a artifactory repo and if we found any new artifacts that should start bamboo plan

I have a Jenkins job outside my workplace network that creates artifacts and these are copied to my company artifactory. from there will run bamboo plan to deploy. 1)how can I search for new artifacts in artifactory to automatically start bamboo…
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