software development Software development is the process of designing and Implementation, implementing a software solution to Computer user satisfaction, satisfy a User (computing), user. The process is more encompassing than Computer programming, programming, wri ...

, CruiseControl is a

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-based framework for a continuous build process. It includes, but is not limited to, plugins for email notification,

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, and various

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tools. A web interface is provided to view the details of the current and previous builds. It allows one to perform a

continuous integration Continuous integration (CI) is the practice of integrating source code changes frequently and ensuring that the integrated codebase is in a workable state. Typically, developers Merge (version control), merge changes to an Branching (revisio ...

of any software development process. CruiseControl is free,

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, distributed under a

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-style license. It was one of the first of its kind of software,{{Cite news, url=https://circleci.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-devops-part-iii-automated-testing-and-continuous-integration/, title=A Brief History of DevOps, Part III: Automated Testing and Continuous Integration, date=2018-02-01, work=CircleCI, access-date=2018-05-19, language=en originally created by employees of ThoughtWorks to allow for

on a project they were working on. It was later extracted into a stand-alone application. There is a version of CruiseControl for

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called CruiseControl.NET (''aka'' CCNet) and a version for Ruby called CruiseControl.rb. The current version is 2.8.4, released in 2010.

Build loop

The build loop is designed to run as a

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process, which periodically checks the

revision control system Version control (also known as revision control, source control, and source code management) is the software engineering practice of controlling, organizing, and tracking different versions in history of computer files; primarily source code ...

for changes to the

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, builds if necessary, and publishes a notice regarding the status of the software build.

Build reporting

CruiseControl provides two ways of reporting build status. The first (classic) reporting is the reporting JSP and the second is the dashboard.

Results JSP

The build reporting is designed to present the results of the CruiseControl build loop. It is based on a

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report managed by a JSP page. The left side of the page displays whether CruiseControl is currently building a project, and provides links to the details of previous builds. The right side of the page presents the results of the build—including compilation errors, test results and details about what files have changed since the last build.

Dashboard

The dashboard was introduced in the 2.7 release. The dashboard is a web page to enable visualising the project build statuses. Previous project build results are colour-coded providing a snapshot of how the projects are doing at that moment. Users can hover the cursor over icons to see the name and information about the project. The 'Builds' tab of the dashboard shows all projects (colour-coded) sorted by name providing some more information.

References

External links

Official CruiseControl homepage
Compiling tools Java development tools Continuous integration Software using the BSD license Discontinued development tools