Ronen Lewit

A continuous integration process involves automatic building and testing with tools like Ant and JUnit. These tools need a tool that will manage and control the build process - this is where Cruise Control comes in. CruiseControl, an open source tool from SourceForge, is a framework for a continuous build process. It provides an easy-to-use tool that integrates Ant, JUnit, and others to provide a simple utility that builds and tests your software throughout the development cycle. For a complete build process you might want to clean the build directory, fetch sources from the source configuration tool, compile sources, package applications, start the application server, deploy the packaged applications, perform tests, generate reports, and clean up. Simpler (intermediate) build processes can pass the clean task and part of the test tasks. All of these tasks should be ... (more)