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What is Travis CI?

Travis CI is an open source continuous integration platform, that enables users to run and test simultaneously on different environments, and automatically catch code failures and bugs.

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Why we use Travis CI

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Oscar MorrisonView profile
Software Engineer in Engineering at Tettra (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

  • Simple to set up.
  • Good documentation.
  • Clean interface.
  • Good level of customization.

Cons

  • Speed.
  • Job scheduling.
  • Integrations.

Return on Investment

  • Saves time.
  • Software stability, visibility.
  • History.

Alternatives Considered

Codeship

Other Software Used

GitHub, Slack, Tettra

No excuse to not write tests anymore!

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Ryan BrewsterView profile
Principal Software Engineer in Engineering at AKQA (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

  • 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.

Cons

  • Travis CI is a fairly mature platform now, and most, if not all of the common complaints have been improved. This includes documentation and logs with color support.

Return on Investment

  • Depending on the type of project, Travis CI can drastically reduce the need for QA resources.
  • Travis CI can be a very powerful part of your deployment pipeline.

Alternatives Considered

Jenkins and CircleCI

Other Software Used

Jenkins, GitHub, Atlassian Confluence, JIRA Software

The best hosted CI service available, IMHO

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Eduardo SampaioView profile
CTO in Information Technology at Jura Online (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • I love the ease of use, the UI is very simple and well thought out, and it is still powerful enough.
  • It integrates with Slack and keeps us informed of all build's status.
  • It is easy to integrate with Heroku for deployment once builds have passed all tests.

Cons

  • 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.

Return on Investment

  • It saves you in infrastructure and setup costs, since running a server and installing and maintaining Jenkins can be a hassle.

Great tool for TDD, CI and CD

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Mathias FonsecaView profile
CTO in Information Technology (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

  • Smooth integration with our GitHub account.
  • Test environment easy to configure.
  • Quick and useful notifications when build fails.

Cons

  • Integration with other repositories.
  • Support for other languages.

Return on Investment

  • Software Quality is greatly influenced by Travis CI, as we detect problems very quickly with its help.
  • Time to Market for a new product is reduced as your deployment process is less complicated.
  • Release Train can be as rapid as once-per-day.

Alternatives Considered

Jenkins, TeamCity and Codeship

Other Software Used

GitHub

Doesn't get any cheaper than "free" for open source projects

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Jonathan Yu, P.Eng.View profile
Software Engineer - OpenShift in Engineering at Red Hat (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Pros

  • It's simple and easy to get started (it can detect the language being used based on build configuration files like a Maven pom.xml).
  • It's free (as in beer) for open source projects.
  • It has a responsive staff (you can file issues on GitHub to ask for new languages or packages to be supported, and the turnaround time isn't too bad for the free offering).
  • The user interface is beautiful and easy-to-use, including features like live-tailing in-progress builds.
  • It supports specifying private environment variables and encrypted credentials, so that you can safely automate deployments (for example, pushing built docker images to DockerHub).

Cons

  • It only supports Linux and OS X, so other vendors (like AppVeyor) have to be used for Windows support.
  • The build matrices can be difficult to set up in the travis.yaml file.
  • Build queues can be long sometimes, since the open source offering has limited infrastructure. This problem does not affect the commercial offering, however.
  • Builds are limited to various versions of OS X and Ubuntu; other operating systems can be used for teh build via the Docker support.

Return on Investment

  • 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".

Alternatives Considered

AppVeyor, CircleCI, Drone and Jenkins

Other Software Used

Gradle, Docker, Kubernetes, Apache Maven

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