Awesome tool for continues integration system I ever seen !!
Updated April 30, 2017
Awesome tool for continues integration system I ever seen !!
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Continua CI
Continua CI is [the most] awesome tool I have ever seen for maintaining a continuous integration system of a product based company. I have been using this tool for my client's product since around last year. This is a very useful tool which automatically creates builds of our products, deploys it on our server and starts the execution of automated test cases. It reduced very much our efforts in creating, deploying and testing builds manually. Our client is a big US based MNC company and their entire organization is using this tool (including my project).
- First thing is this tool is scalable which is the biggest advantage of this tool. It won't take much time in setup and making it ready. It has a very good user interface.
- This tool has almost every source code repository support like Git, SVN, Microsoft Foundation Server etc. Moreover, it has very good support for various build tools like Visual Studio, MSBuild etc., which makes it even batter.
- We can trigger multiple builds at a time with the Premier subscription.
- It allows users to apply many deep levels of configurations which make the whole system even easier.
- Mostly I don't have much more recommendation for improvement because this tool provides almost everything which would be required in any continuous integration system. But still I would suggest improvement in the reporting system. The build report is a field where they can make improvement by adding more information if they want.
- Basically, this tool will reduce manual effort of creating, deploying and testing software products. So ultimately it will reduce manpower which would otherwise be required for such things.
- It is time saving and improves the overall performance of the entire team and system.
In my previous company I have used Jenkins for maintaining their CI system. Even this tool is also very good. The good thing about this tool is it’s an open source project. So in terms of pricing, we can consider this tool as an alternative to continua CI. One has to compare both of the products before going to use any one because both have their own benefits and drawbacks.
Using Continua CI
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Like to use Relatively simple Well integrated Consistent Quick to learn Convenient Feel confident using | None |
- Creating a job and launching a build is very easy.
- Some detailed configuration related stuff is difficult [to do] sometimes.