Developers
Developer self-service. Immediate feedback. Product Quality. Build Forge makes it easy for developers to run builds faster, more often. And you can run your own builds right from your Eclipse, or .NET IDE before you check-in to source control. You don’t have to leave your work environment to use all the same processes as your CM’s. If the code works, you can do a full test against production systems on your own. And if there’s an error, Build Forge sends you an error log so that you can fix x the problem right then. With Build Forge, source adaptors do all the work monitoring systems like Clear Case, Star Team and Perforce – if there’s new code, it automatically triggers a code-build-test cycle. It also has a great option that includes dependency managers for ANT, Make and .Net that break your scripts down automatically– no changes required. Then the work is distributed out to Build Forge servers to run in parallel. That’s making builds go faster and your life easier.
Build Forge enables you to check in with confidence - you no longer have to worry about being the guy who broke the build.
QA
Improved planning. Automated Tests. Reproducibility. Quality. Build
Forge gives QA teams a real-time window into the complete build, test
and release cycle. It eliminates manual hand-offs and streamlines
communication between QA, development and CM. Everyone has centralized
access so everyone stays on the same page – even global teams.
With Build Forge, you know exactly what areas of a release have changed
the most so you know what to test – even before it’s delivered to you.
You can launch automated test suites based on build successes to save
your staff time. You can eliminate process lags – using the exact tools
you use today including Mercury for testing, IBM ClearQuest for defect
tracking – even proprietary tools.
Build Forge improves QA planning, enables accurate hand-offs, automated tests, reproducibility and product quality.
Build and Release Teams
Fast set-up. Smooth hand-offs. Product quality. With your tools. Build
Forge makes it easy for build and release and configuration managers to
get a grip on their end-to-end build and release processes. You can
work with all of your existing tools, such as Rational for source
control, Mercury for testing, ClearCase for defect tracking – even
proprietary tools. Build Forge enables you to eliminate manual
hand-offs and use your scripts in a more consistent, manageable way by
creating standard tasks for checking out source or running unit tests.
Then, you can reuse them from product to product.
It’s all about reducing your set-up time, getting consistency and keeping the development cycle on track.
Build Forge takes the guesswork out of server management by tracking
each servers configuration based on your specifications – operating
systems, patch levels, compilers, all of it. And when you run a job,
the system automatically finds the right servers for the job. Build
Forge also creates server pools to be shared among multiple projects –
then Build Forge Build Forge decides which tasks can be run in parallel
across a group of machines, automatically. You get a detailed bill of
materials for each release so you know exactly what changed, what
defects were resolved and what machines were used. If something goes
wrong, you can quickly rollback, reproduce the problem and get it
fixed.
Development Managers
Product Quality. Team Collaboration. Efficiency. Compliance. As the
pressure mounts to deliver enterprise products and services faster,
development organizations are hard pressed to manage complex
applications, coordinate 7x24 globally distributed development and
production teams while maintaining high software quality.
And compliance mandates? Whether they’re from legislative, regulatory
or internal pressures, staying compliant requires complete
traceability, end-to-end process control and audit trails that demand a
new breed of development infrastructure and flexibility. BuildForge has
it.
It’s the complete, integrated build and release management solution
that gives you a fully-automated, fully-traceable software delivery
chain to increase product quality, team efficiency and achieve
sustainable compliance. With the open framework, you can automate,
track and analyze your end-to-end application development lifecycle
using the very tools you have in place today. The key difference is the
seamless integration of BuildForge with market-leading software
development platforms like IBM Rational, Borland, Serena and Microsoft.
This gives development executives real process control, speed,
visibility and seamless tracking and reporting.
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