BuildBot
The BuildBot is a system to automate the compile/test cycle required by most software projects to validate code changes. It builds and tests the tree each time a change is committed, providing status updates through a Web page or other protocols.
| Tags | Software Development Build Tools Quality Assurance Version Control Libraries Python Modules Testing |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Implementation | Python |
Recent releases
- 15 Jun 2014 22:00
Release Notes: This is a feature packed release with improvements across the board. New features include integration with GitHub commit status notifications and BitBucket pull request building. The WebStatus dashboard can now auto-scroll stdout output.
- 22 Nov 2012 00:06
Release Notes: This is a bugfix release.
- 23 Sep 2012 00:14
Release Notes: This release brings a plethora of new features: support for building projects composed of multiple codebases; new, much more flexible property interpolation support (Interpolate); significant improvements to the ForceScheduler; and much more. The release also drops support for some older software: Buildbot now requires at least Python-2.5 and Twisted-9.0.0.
- 26 Mar 2012 00:53
Release Notes: This is a bugfix release to 0.8.6, which was largely a rollup of contributed improvements. It also contains changes to the Web UI, IRC, MailNotifier, properties, and Web hooks, and a number of bugfixes.
- 11 Mar 2012 21:15
Release Notes: This release is largely a rollup of contributed improvements, including a new ForceScheduler to allow much flexible configuration of forced builds. It also contains changes to the web UI, IRC, MailNotifier, properties, and Web hooks, and a number of bugfixes.
Recent comments
We have something like that now, by the way: http://buildbot.net/buildbot/tutorial/
Seems challenging to get started
It could use some good howto documents for getting going. How about something that starts with a small python program, puts it in svn, and setups a buildbot system all on localhost?
