What tools do you use for Automated Builds / Autom

Question

What tools do you use for Automated Builds / Automated Deployments? Why?

What tools do you recommend?

Answer 1

For automated builds, I think the best tool going right now is JetBrain's Team City. The free version has all the features you'll need for most 5-10 person teams. Set up is easy, configuring new projects is painless (relatively), and most importantly, it's reliable.

For automated migrations, nothing beats PowerShell.

Answer 2

UppercuT uses NAnt to build and it is the insanely easy to use Build Framework.

Automated Builds as easy as (1) solution name, (2) source control path, (3) company name for most projects!

http://code.google.com/p/uppercut/

Some good explanations here: UppercuT

More information

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UppercuT is a conventional automated build, which means you set up a config file and then you get a bunch of features for free. Arguably the most powerful feature is the ability to specify environment settings in ONE place and have them applied everywhere, including documentation when it builds the source.

Documentation available: https://github.com/chucknorris/uppercut/wiki

Features :

• Simple setup
• Simple upgrades
• Custom extension points (pre, post, and replace) for each step of the build process http://uppercut.pbworks.com/CustomizeUsingExtensionPoints
• Has documentation for integration w/Team City, CruiseControl.NET, and Jenkins (formerly Hudson) https://github.com/chucknorris/uppercut/tree/master/docs
• Works on Linux w/Mono
• Versioning DLLs based on build number and source control revisions (SVN, TFS, Git, HG)
• Compile activities - F5 or Ctrl + Shift + B
• Strong naming made as easy as true/false
• Code Testing and Analysis
  • Testing
    • NUnit
    • MbUnit v2
    • Gallio
    • xUnit
  • NCover
  • NDepend
  • Nitriq
  • Mono Migration Analyzer
• Obfuscation
• ILMerge
• Environment Templating and Building (ConfigBuilder, DocBuilder, SQLBuilder, DeploymentBuilder) https://github.com/chucknorris/uppercut/blob/master/docs/ConfigBuilder.doc?raw=true
• Packaging output to prepare for deployment
• Zips up output

Answer 3

The GNU Autotools definitely. The autoconf and automake are de-facto standard for unix systems.

Answer 4

NAnt for builds (but MSBuild, Rake, almost anything would be fine) and CruiseControl.NET for deployments. I'm currently working with the new Cruise from ThoughtWorks studios as it provides a better way to stage the various pipelines and let's me deploy any version I want to a target environment.

Answer 5

ANT for both build and deployment/installs.

Makes a great cross-platform installer.

Answer 6

At work we use good ol' Ant to build our Java servlets.