Automated BuildStudio

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Automated BuildStudio developed by SmartBear Software is a build and release management system that provides automation of the software development build, test and release processes. Current version, released in June 2010, contains over 750 built-in operations that allow users to automate different tasks.

Main Features

Visual Macro Designer helps to create visually constructed macros.

750 built-in operations - a variety of automated builds that run unattended.

Distributed build support lets users distribute the execution of macro operations among multiple computers.

Remote Macro Execution Control – running macros located on remote computers and monitoring such macro runs.

Concurrent execution of operations – organizing macro operations so they can be executed simultaneously.

Charts displaying macro run statistics - displaying the information in a graphical form within the Charts panel. This feature helps to analyze the ratio of successful and failed runs, the duration of macro runs and the frequency of macro runs over a desired period of time.

Tasks Scheduler is a key feature for creation of automated daily builds. It helps to create scheduled macro runs.

Macro debugger is similar to debugging an application in a development tool. Debugging features allow checking whether the macro functions correctly or quickly locating errors in the macro and fixing them.

Automatic notifications - getting notification of whether a macro run was successful or not. Notification can be sent in different forms: via E-mail, Windows Messenger, MSN Messenger or Windows Live Messenger, or ICQ.

Assistant - a context-sensitive Assistant that displays commands, hints and links to help topics.

Run via command-line – execution of macros without loading them into the BuildStudio IDE - by specifying the desired macro name in BuildStudio's command line.

Supported build tools

  • Apache Ant
  • IncrediBuild by Xoreax Software Ltd.
  • Microsoft MSBuild
  • NAnt (Gerry Shaw and others)

Supported testing, profiling and issue-tracking tools

  • Aivosto Project Analyzer
  • AQtime by SmartBear Software
  • AQtrace by SmartBear Software
  • Borland CaliberRM
  • Borland StarTeam
  • CodeHealer by SOCK Software
  • JUnit
  • Microsoft Application Center Test scripts
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System
  • MSTest
  • NUnit (James W. Newkirk and others)
  • Peganza Pascal Analyzer
  • Perforce by Perforce Software Inc.
  • Team Coherence by Quality Software Components
  • TestComplete by SmartBear Software
  • TestExecute by SmartBear Software