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Likelihood to Recommend
Apache Maven
Building and automating packaging of software can be a challenging task. As the complexity of the project grows so do the dependencies on third-party artifacts. Using Maven we can define and manage the project structure centrally and it helps improve overall build times.

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Higher Education Company, 5001-10,000 employeesTravis CI
If your company embraces open source and uses a lot of the workflows that are prevalent in startups, Travis CI is indispensable. It comes with a lot of tools that thrive in that ecosystem. It probably won't be appreciated by companies that are traditionally more closed where everything is behind a firewall.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 1-10 employeesPros
Apache Maven
- Makes the build process simple and easy to do.
- It provides a standard build system that can be adopted by multiple, different groups within an organization.
- It's extensible with easy to use custom extensions which our developers take full advantage of.

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employeesTravis CI
- It is very simple to configure a range of environment versions and settings in a simple YAML file.
- It integrates very well with Github, Bitbucket, or a private Git repo.
- The Travis CI portal beautifully shows you your history and console logs. Everything is presented in a very clear and intuitive interface.
Principal Software Engineer
AKQAComputer Software, 1-10 employees
Cons
Apache Maven
- Maven provides a very rigid model that makes customization tedious and sometimes impossible. While this can make it easier to understand any given Maven build, as long as you don’t have any special requirements, it also makes it unsuitable for many automation problems.
- Maven has few, built-in dependency scopes, which forces awkward module architectures in common scenarios like using test fixtures or code generation. There is no separation between unit and integration tests

Verified User
Team Lead in Engineering
Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employeesTravis CI
- I think they could have a cheaper personal plan. I'd love to use Travis on personal projects, but I don't want to publish them nor I can pay $69 a month for personal projects that I don't want to be open source.
- There is no interface for configuring repos on Travis CI, you have to do it via a file in the repo. This make configuration very flexible, but also makes it harder for simpler projects and for small tweaks in the configuration.
CTO
Jura OnlineInternet, 11-50 employees
Usability
Apache Maven
Apache Maven 8.0
Based on 1 answer
The overall usability of Apache Maven is very good to us. We were able to incorporate it into our company's build process pretty quickly. We deployed it to multiple teams throughout the entire enterprise. We got good feedback from our developers stating that Apache Maven has simplified their build process. It also allowed to to standardize the build process for the entire enterprise, thus ensure that each development team is using the same, consistent process to build code.

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employeesTravis CI
Travis CI 5.0
Based on 1 answer
TravisCI hasn't had much changes made to its software and has thus fallen behind compared to many other CI/CD applications out there. I can only give it a 5 because it does what it is supposed to do but lacks product innovation.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employeesPerformance
Apache Maven
Apache Maven 9.0
Based on 2 answers
Excellent tool to build a project, simple and easy to study, install and implement.
Technical Leader
FPT SoftwareComputer Software, 10,001+ employees
Travis CI
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Apache Maven
Apache Maven 5.9
Based on 5 answers
I can't speak to the support, as I've never had issues. Apache Maven "just works," and errors were user errors or local nexus errors. Apache Maven is a great build/dependency management tool. I give it a 9/10 because occasionally the error message don't immediately indicate a solution...but again, those errors were always user or configuration errors, and the Maven documentation is extensive, so I don't find fault in Maven, but in its users.

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Project Manager in Engineering
International Affairs Company, 11-50 employeesTravis CI
Travis CI 6.0
Based on 2 answers
They really need to ramp up on their documentation. Otherwise, Travis CI is really great and they support open source initiatives. Being a proponent of open source, using their service helps them improve their work and keep improving their services. Their tool has helped improve open source software and the free tier makes it a great tool for teams with smaller budgets.

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Engineer in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 1-10 employeesAlternatives Considered
Apache Maven
Ant, Maven's opposing framework, is often a point of comparison. Although Ant does not require formal conventions, it is procedural in the sense that you must tell Ant exactly what to do and when. It also lacks a lifecycle, along with goal definition and dependencies. Maven, on the other hand, requires less work as it knows exactly where your source code is as long as the pom.xml file is generated.

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Engineer in Product Management
Telecommunications Company, 10,001+ employeesTravis CI
Jenkins is much more complicated to configure and start using. Although, one you have done that, it's extremely powerful and full of features. Maybe many more than Travis CI. As per TeamCity, I would never go back to using it. It's also complicated to configure but it is not worth the trouble. Codeship supports integration with GitHub, GitLab and BitBucket. I've only used it briefly, but it seems to be a nice tool.
Computer Software, 1-10 employees
Return on Investment
Apache Maven
- Apache Maven is an open source product from the Apache Software Foundation. Being free to use without any licensing constraints, we've been very happy with this product thus far.
- The software build and packaging times for our applications have improved greatly since our use of this tool.

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Higher Education Company, 5001-10,000 employeesTravis CI
- It's improved my ability to deliver working code, increasing my development velocity.
- It increases confidence that your own work (and those of external contributors) does not have any obvious bugs, provided you have sufficient test coverage.
- It helps to ensure consistent standards across a team (you can integrate process elements like "go lint" and other style checks as part of your build).
- It's zero-cost for public/open source projects, so the only investment is a few minutes setting up a build configuration file (hence the return is very high).
- The .travis.yml file is a great way for onboarding new developers, since it shows how to bootstrap a build environment and run a build "from scratch".
Software Engineer - OpenShift
Red HatComputer Software, 5001-10,000 employees
Pricing Details
Apache Maven
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Apache Maven Editions & Modules
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Additional Pricing Details
—Travis CI
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Travis CI Editions & Modules
Edition
Free Plan | Free |
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1 Concurrent Job Plan | $692 |
2 Concurrent Jobs Plan | $1292 |
5 Concurrent Jobs Plan | $2492 |
- per month