PMEase QuickBuild is a continuous integration and release management server, acting as the central place to produce, test, deploy, and release software builds. It is designed to guard health of development projects by preventing broken builds, and to improve your build delivery process by pushing builds going through a customizable pipeline, such as Dev to QA to Release, with related resolved issues and SCM changes.
Guard the health of your projects. Developers can run continuous integration against their uncommitted changes on the build server. If successful the build server can commit the changes for developers automatically. This reduces the risk of committing "bad" code to Subversion.
Manage builds of many projects. QuickBuild organizes projects in a hierarchical structure, and utilizes concept of inheritance and overriding to encourage build definition reuse, which proves to be very convenient and powerful, when set up builds for many projects.
Build lifecycle management with integrated view. QuickBuild manages all levels of builds, including continuous integration build, daily build, QA and release build, and tracks associated changes and issues automatically. Build promotion connects different build levels into a customizable build delivery pipeline, and pushes build going through its life cycle smoothly
Why PMEase QuickBuild and CollabNet?
CollabNet customers are looking to achieve Continuous Integration (CI), as a best practice of Agile software development. Continuous Integration can be used to reduce integration headaches and improve team efficiency. QuickBuild is designed from its first day to make this practice easy to adopt. With both companies offering an open architecture for easy integration, CollabNet Services recently employed this build solution into TeamForge for a large financial institution to meet their CI requirements.
QuickBuild is a multi-platform build automation and management server which helps continuous integration or nightly builds. It features easy to use interface, build promotion, remote and parallel build support, fully customizable build process, ultra powerful build dependency handling, rich set of REST API, mainstream build script support (including Ant, Maven, NAnt, Make, batch file or shell script) and much more...
Ultra Flexible Build Workflow Definition
In QuickBuild, build workflow is modeled as sequence of build steps. These steps can be visually organized to execute sequentially or in parallel on one or more build agents. For example, you may checkout different part of the product on different agents simultaneously, build and test them separately, and send the build results to other agents for further processing, such as integration tests, product packaging, etc.
While build projects, QuickBuild collect various metrics into build reports, and generates statistics reports over time. Important information can be disclosed from these reports, for example, to find out which tests are failed most frequently, which tests are taking the longest time, which files are committed most frequently, or which users are committing most frequently.
In addition to the commercial license, PMEase also offers free open source and community editions.
