Continuous Integration
Continuous integration involves building, testing and reporting on your software’s code as soon as changes are checked-in to your version control system. It is a foundation of agile development and delivers many benefits, including a clear indication of the status of your project at regular intervals.
The process of implementing continuous integration is simplified by FinalBuilder Server with its easy-to-use source control triggers. Add a trigger and configure its properties to easily set up customised continuous integration with:
- CVS
- Perforce
- Subversion
- Surround SCM
- Vault
- Visual SourceSafe
- Visual Studio Team Stystem
When properly combined with an automated build and test process, continuous integration with FinalBuilder Server provides instantaneous feedback about integration errors, allowing you to have a clear insight into the health of your project. Continuous integration is proven to effectively improve the quality of software release and reduce the overall development life-cycle.
The screen shot below shows just how easy it is to setup and manage a Continuous Integration trigger in FinalBuilder Server.
Despite being easy to set up, FinalBuilder Server's continuous integration triggers unleash a huge amount of potential for improving your build process. Using them to achieve iterative development and get continuous feedback, your team will have a clear indication on the status of your project and corresponding quality of your development outcomes at every stage of the development lifecycle.
If your version control system is not natively supported, FinalBuilder can support it quite easily using the command line interface. FinalBuilder's developers are also adding native support for other version control systems in the future, so if you would like your VCS support, please contact us.