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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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how do we enforce entry of automation java classes's path in an xml file?

We have two teams working on quality automation project and we share a module to be tested. For that purpose we have created an xml file for each team which is read by Jenkins to generate a report that shows success / failure of the test classes…
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How to run testng.xml in Jenkins ? What are the things required?

I have below things: I have copied project in my Jenkins server which contains: drwxr-xr-x 2 tomcat tomcat 4096 Jan 12 06:28 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 tomcat tomcat 4096 Jan 12 06:28 lib -rwxr-xr-x 1 tomcat tomcat 47 Jan 12 06:28 Run.bat drwxr-xr-x 3…
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Automating generation of React native app apk

I have 1 React native webview app. I would like to produce X amount of WebView apps with that 1 app. Everything will be the same apart from the initial brand url and brand logos. So i would like to write a script that calls react-native new…
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Can progress be fetched from "configure" and autotools-generated "Makefile"?

I'm building tons of projects at once, and while they're being built, I'd like to do other stuff on the same machine, while being able to monitor the progress. Is there a way to fetch current progress from configure script as generated by autoconf,…
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HOWTO remove whitespace from an automation string to export to a SQLPlus SELECT command LockedOut.sql file

This is an automation of a command to SQLPlus 12c on Linux from Windows 18_3 version on PowerShell 5.1 with Microsoft modules loaded. I need to clean out the whitespace of the string to input wildcard data on an automation Select script (the final…
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How to import multiple csv files with different headers into database using SSIS?

I am writing a SSIS package to import multiple files in a folder with variation in the columns into a database. But cant find solution as one table has 12 columns and other 2 columns and while setting up the data flow not getting how to make the…
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Autotools: Generating Sources and Headers in Makefile.am

This link mentions wildcards as a way to automatically list the SOURCES and HEADERS in the Makefile.am file. It also mentions that some people write external scripts to generate those files. Do you know of the standard way of automatically including…
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Can you run an ant build script as part of a Hudson deployment?

We want to be able to deploy our project using Hudson, but the build file for the project generates some files and downloads packages from other locations. Is it possible to make Hudson do these tasks as part of a deployment?
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How to edit, compile and read MQL4 files using Python?

I am trying to automate the editing, compiling and reading of results of MQL4 file using python, are there any tools like selenium but targeted for UI?
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ResolveVCProjectOutput failure

We just recently started getting warnings on our build system which are eventually causing the build to fail. The build works fine if I build in the VS2005 IDE. The error seems to boil down to the following error: Task "ResolveVCProjectOutput"…
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Automating Remote Machine Tasks

This is what I am trying to do: Connect to a VPN (I use rasdial) Check list of active virtual machines in VPN and then connect to one. (I have read that vmrun can do it BUT I have Virtual Infrastructure Library installed. Where do I get vmrun…
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Run Cleanup Phase when a test phase job fails

I have 2 phases in Jenkins Multijob project. One Cleanup Phase and Other Phase has 4 Test Jobs to run sequentially. My Question is when one of the 4 Test job fails, I would like to run Clean Up Phase and then re-run the failed Job. Can this be…
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ProjectCollection equivalent for Clickonce

Microsoft created ProjectCollection (BuildEngine on frameworks below 4) to use MSBuild directly on code. Is there any equivalent to publish applications through clickonce or do we have to call Mage.exe by command line?
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TFS 2010 Automated Deployment Process

I am trying to understand the automated deployment process in TFS 2010. I have a DEV, QA, Stage, and Live environments. Using a basic (or standard branching strategy), when configuring automatic builds/deployments does deploying to DEV get code…
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Powershell script to run Octopus to deploy one environment to another environment with version number

Currently when we deploy applications from Preprod to Production, our application team creates a run sheet showing Preprod specific version (1.0.x.x) needs to be deployed to Production. And then Dev ops team manually runs Octopus to deploy the…
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