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The current CI environments in market fall broadly under 4 categories.
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This session only touched on a small subset of the tools available. A larger non-comprehensive set is available on the [http://confluence.public.thoughtworks.org/display/CC/CI+Feature+Matrix CI Feature Matrix] (originally version from [http://docs.codehaus.org/display/DAMAGECONTROL/Continuous+Integration+Server+Feature+Matrix codehaus.org]).
  
1) Developer Budget (Most of it Available free of cost). These are build centric tools
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We don't want to recreate that page here! Please don't try to make this a complete listing of possible CI tools.
  
a) Hudson: Good for Projects when the number of projects under CI are less. When number of projects grow hudson might sometimes get    hard to manage. Has a very good plug-in model. Easy to get started. Easy setup.
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This session segmented the CI Tool market very broadly in terms of price.  The prices were based on [http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckies.html this article] by Joel Spolsky where he described the options for pricing: "...software is priced three ways: free, cheap, and dear." You translate those prices in terms of budget levels: Developer Budget, Manager Budget, Director+ Budget).
  
b) Cruise Control: Which has its own version for .Net with name CC.Net. Slowing down in popularity currently.
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The notes here are based on rumor, innuendo and hearsay from other CITCON events except where actual users of the tool happened to be present.
  
c)Lunt Build:
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==Developer Budget (free)==
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Developers don't have budget authority so "developer budget" generally means open source.
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These are build centric tools
  
d)Run Code Run:
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a) [http://hudson-ci.org/ Hudson]: Good for Projects when the number of projects under CI are less. When number of projects grow hudson might sometimes get    hard to manage. Has a very good plug-in model. Easy to get started. Easy setup.
  
e) Build Bot
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b) [http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/ CruiseControl]: Original Java version. Slowing down in popularity currently.
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[http://confluence.public.thoughtworks.org/display/CCNET/Welcome+to+CruiseControl.NET CC.NET]: Started as a .NET port of CruiseControl but has evolved quite differently since. Still going strong in the .NET world.
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[http://cruisecontrolrb.thoughtworks.com/ cc.rb]: Ruby people in the audience use this.
  
f) PHP Under Control (Project by Cruise Control)
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c) [http://luntbuild.javaforge.com/ Lunt Build]:
  
2) Manager Budget (Available in market Really Cheap). These set of tools also fall under build centric tools.
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d) [http://blog.runcoderun.com/post/463439385/saying-goodbye-to-runcoderun Run Code Run]: defunct hosted CI service.
  
a) Pulse:
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e) [http://buildbot.net/trac Build Bot]: python based tool. Some users in the audience using it on a php project.
  
b) Team City: Nicely integrated with IntelliJ. Builds your code before commit and commits only if the build is fine to the repository.
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f) [http://www.phpundercontrol.org/about.html phpUnderControl]: a repackaging of CruiseControl for php projects.
  
c) Bamboo Studio: Has really nice graphs.
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==Manager Budget (cheap)==
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The Manager Budget is typically something a manager could charge to their credit card and then get reimbursed.
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These set of tools also fall under build centric tools.
  
d) Quick Build: Commercial version of Lunt Build.
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a) [http://zutubi.com/ Pulse]: A cool tool from a 2-man shop. (Bummer that neither Jason nor Daniel made it! -Jtf)
  
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b) [http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/ Team City]: Nicely integrated with IntelliJ. Builds your code before commit and commits only if the build is fine to the repository.
  
3) Medium Cost Tools: These are the tools which fall under the medium cost category and generally no body sells tools in this category as the cost is in the middle category and generally users in CI environment either are interested in really cheap tools or the big corporates who are ready to buy expensive products.
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c) [http://www.atlassian.com/software/bamboo/ Bamboo]: Has really nice graphs. Also available hosted as part of [http://www.atlassian.com/hosted/studio/ Jira Studio].
  
4) Director Budget (Highly expensive tools). Build is possible across multiple environments. These set of tools are extensible , scalable for thousands of users for thousands of commits and builds. Tools in this category can be used to do the entire release management.
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d) [http://www.pmease.com/ Quick Build]: Commercial version of Lunt Build.
  
a) AntHill Pro: Dependency management built in.
 
  
b) Cruise:  
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==Medium Cost Tools==
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These are the tools which fall under the medium cost category and generally nobody sells tools in this category for reasons explained in the aforementioned Joel article:
  
c) Build Forge: IBM's rational product. Work is underway to make it compatible with WSAD under the banner Rational Automation Framework.
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"Notice the gap? There's no software priced between $1000 and $75,000. I'll tell you why. The minute you charge more than $1000 you need to get serious corporate signoffs. You need a line item in their budget. You need purchasing managers and CEO approval and competitive bids and paperwork. So you need to send a salesperson out to the customer to do PowerPoint, with his airfare, golf course memberships, and $19.95 porn movies at the Ritz Carlton. And with all this, the cost of making one successful sale is going to average about $50,000. If you're sending salespeople out to customers and charging less than $75,000, you're losing money."
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(I'd argue the bottom limit these days is closer to $10,000 but the concept is still solid - Jtf)
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==Director+ Budget (expensive)==
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Enterprise tools. Security and audits are more of an issue. Often used for more than just building. These set of tools are extensible, scalable for thousands of users for thousands of commits and builds. Tools in this category can be used to do the entire release management.
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a) [http://www.anthillpro.com/html/default.html AnthillPro]: Dependency management built in. Aims to tie together everything from commit to release: Dev, QA, release management, and operations.
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b) [http://www.thoughtworks-studios.com/cruise-release-management Cruise]: Similar vision to AnthillPro
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c) [http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/buildforge/ Build Forge]: IBM's rational product. Work is underway to make it compatible with WSAD under the banner Rational Automation Framework.
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d) [http://www.electric-cloud.com/products/electriccommander.php Electric Commander]:
  
d) Electric Commander:
 
  
 
Other CI Tools:
 
Other CI Tools:
  
a) RTC (Rational Team Concert) Outcome of Jazz concert. Meant for enterprise agile projects.
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a) [http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/rtc/ RTC] (Rational Team Concert) Outcome of Jazz concert. Meant for enterprise agile projects.
  
b) MS TFS: Microsoft product.
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b) [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/ff637362.aspx MS TFS]: Microsoft product. Team Foundation Server.
  
c) DB Deploy: Open Source tool for automatic build for SQL, PL/SQL.
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c) [http://dbdeploy.com/ DB Deploy]: Open Source tool for database change management. Someone said they use it for automatic build for SQL, PL/SQL.

Latest revision as of 05:29, 10 September 2012

This session only touched on a small subset of the tools available. A larger non-comprehensive set is available on the CI Feature Matrix (originally version from codehaus.org).

We don't want to recreate that page here! Please don't try to make this a complete listing of possible CI tools.

This session segmented the CI Tool market very broadly in terms of price. The prices were based on this article by Joel Spolsky where he described the options for pricing: "...software is priced three ways: free, cheap, and dear." You translate those prices in terms of budget levels: Developer Budget, Manager Budget, Director+ Budget).

The notes here are based on rumor, innuendo and hearsay from other CITCON events except where actual users of the tool happened to be present.

Developer Budget (free)

Developers don't have budget authority so "developer budget" generally means open source. These are build centric tools

a) Hudson: Good for Projects when the number of projects under CI are less. When number of projects grow hudson might sometimes get hard to manage. Has a very good plug-in model. Easy to get started. Easy setup.

b) CruiseControl: Original Java version. Slowing down in popularity currently. CC.NET: Started as a .NET port of CruiseControl but has evolved quite differently since. Still going strong in the .NET world. cc.rb: Ruby people in the audience use this.

c) Lunt Build:

d) Run Code Run: defunct hosted CI service.

e) Build Bot: python based tool. Some users in the audience using it on a php project.

f) phpUnderControl: a repackaging of CruiseControl for php projects.

Manager Budget (cheap)

The Manager Budget is typically something a manager could charge to their credit card and then get reimbursed. These set of tools also fall under build centric tools.

a) Pulse: A cool tool from a 2-man shop. (Bummer that neither Jason nor Daniel made it! -Jtf)

b) Team City: Nicely integrated with IntelliJ. Builds your code before commit and commits only if the build is fine to the repository.

c) Bamboo: Has really nice graphs. Also available hosted as part of Jira Studio.

d) Quick Build: Commercial version of Lunt Build.


Medium Cost Tools

These are the tools which fall under the medium cost category and generally nobody sells tools in this category for reasons explained in the aforementioned Joel article:

"Notice the gap? There's no software priced between $1000 and $75,000. I'll tell you why. The minute you charge more than $1000 you need to get serious corporate signoffs. You need a line item in their budget. You need purchasing managers and CEO approval and competitive bids and paperwork. So you need to send a salesperson out to the customer to do PowerPoint, with his airfare, golf course memberships, and $19.95 porn movies at the Ritz Carlton. And with all this, the cost of making one successful sale is going to average about $50,000. If you're sending salespeople out to customers and charging less than $75,000, you're losing money."

(I'd argue the bottom limit these days is closer to $10,000 but the concept is still solid - Jtf)

Director+ Budget (expensive)

Enterprise tools. Security and audits are more of an issue. Often used for more than just building. These set of tools are extensible, scalable for thousands of users for thousands of commits and builds. Tools in this category can be used to do the entire release management.

a) AnthillPro: Dependency management built in. Aims to tie together everything from commit to release: Dev, QA, release management, and operations.

b) Cruise: Similar vision to AnthillPro

c) Build Forge: IBM's rational product. Work is underway to make it compatible with WSAD under the banner Rational Automation Framework.

d) Electric Commander:


Other CI Tools:

a) RTC (Rational Team Concert) Outcome of Jazz concert. Meant for enterprise agile projects.

b) MS TFS: Microsoft product. Team Foundation Server.

c) DB Deploy: Open Source tool for database change management. Someone said they use it for automatic build for SQL, PL/SQL.