CruiseControl

CruiseControl is a Java-based open-source computer program that is used in software development in order to enable continuous integration.

Cruise Control is free software, distributed under a BSD- style license. It was originally developed by ThoughtWorks employees of ( inter alia Martin Fowler ), and was later developed into a stand-alone framework.

Operation

Cruise Control allows the continuous integration within the software development process. The developers integrate frequently ( usually at least once a day), and can quickly detect integration errors as due to automatic testing. This leads to significantly lower integration problems and allows teams to develop faster coherent software.

Cruise Control contains plug- ins to be notified by e -mail, the use of Apache Ant and other programming tools. A Web interface displays the current and previous state of the software.

More versions

For software development with Ruby variant CruiseControl.rb was developed by ThoughtWorks, which is also written in Ruby. For the. NET software development, there are CruiseControl.Net the variant.