Projects

Apache Ant

claimed by Apache Software Foundation

Apache Ant is a Java-based build tool. In theory, it is kind of like Make, but without Make's wrinkles.

Rake

Rake is a Ruby make-like utility using standard Ruby syntax for the build specification file.

Hudson

claimed by Eclipse Foundation

Hudson is an automated build system for a team as well as a system that monitors automated jobs (such as cron jobs)

Jenkins

Jenkins is a continuous integration server, allowing you to automatically monitor source repositories, build software and run tests. One-click installation and out-of-the-box cluster support make it easy to get started improving your software, or just giving you greater control of your daily task ... [More] automation. With an extensive library of over 300 plugins, Jenkins can be used to build, test, log, analyse, graph and notify you in a great number of different ways about your jobs. Founded by Kohsuke Kawaguchi while at Sun in 2004, the Hudson project forked in January 2011 to become Jenkins, with Oracle Corporation continuing the development of Hudson, and the bulk of the Hudson community, including Kawaguchi, moving on to work on Jenkins. [Less]

Selenium

Selenium is a test tool for web applications. Selenium tests run directly in a browser, just as real users do. And they run in Internet Explorer, Mozilla and Firefox on Windows, Linux, and Macintosh. No other test tool covers such a wide array of platforms. * Browser compatibility testing. ... [More] Test your application to see if it works correctly on different browsers and operating systems. The same script can run on any Selenium platform. * System functional testing. Create regression tests to verify application functionality and user acceptance. [Less]

SCons - a Software Construction tool

SCons is a software construction tool (build tool substitute for Make) implemented in Python. It features a modular build engine that can be embedded in other software. SCons configuration files are Python scripts that call the build engine API. It can scan files to detect dependencies automatically ... [More] and maintain a global view of all dependencies in a build tree, and uses MD5 signatures to detect changed file contents reliably. Timestamps can be used if you prefer. SCons also supports parallel builds and is easily extensible through user-defined builder and scanner objects. [Less]

Phing

PHing Is Not GNU make; it's a project build system based on Apache Ant. You can do anything with it that you could do with a traditional build system like GNU make, and its use of simple XML build files and extensible PHP "task" classes make it an easy-to-use and highly flexible build ... [More] framework. Features include file transformations (e.g. token replacement, XSLT transformation, Smarty template transformations), file system operations, interactive build support, SQL execution, CVS operations, tools for creating PEAR packages, and much more. [Less]

Puppet

Puppet lets you centrally manage every important aspect of your system using a cross-platform specification language that manages all the separate elements normally aggregated in different files, like users, cron jobs, and hosts, along with obviously discrete elements like packages, services, and ... [More] files. Puppet's simple declarative specification language provides powerful classing abilities for drawing out the similarities between hosts while allowing them to be as specific as necessary, and it handles dependency and prerequisite relationships between objects clearly and explicitly. [Less]

CruiseControl

CruiseControl is a framework for a continuous build process. It includes, but is not limited to, plugins for email notification, Ant, and various source control tools. A Web interface is provided to view the details of the current and previous builds.

Buildbot

The BuildBot is a system to automate the compile/test cycle required by most software projects to validate code changes. By automatically rebuilding and testing the tree each time something has changed, build problems are pinpointed quickly, before other developers are inconvenienced by the failure. ... [More] The guilty developer can be identified and harassed without human intervention. By running the builds on a variety of platforms, developers who do not have the facilities to test their changes everywhere before checkin will at least know shortly afterwards whether they have broken the build or not. Warning counts, lint checks, image size, compile time, and other build parameters can be tracked over time, are more visible, and are therefore easier to improve. [Less]