Automated Build Studio

Infobox Software
name = Automated Build Studio

developer = AutomatedQA
website = [http://www.automatedqa.com/products/abs Automated Build Studio page]
latest_release_version = 5
latest_release_date = September 8, 2008

Automated Build Studio developed by AutomatedQA is a build and release management system that provides automation of the software development build, test and release processes.

Uses

It helps to create complex visual macros which can automate repetitive or day-to-day tasks. Creating a macro means that user visually adds operations to macro and sets up the operation properties. A macro is composed of several operations that perform specific actions, such as copying files or compiling projects.Automated Build Studio is integrated with other AutomatedQA products - AQtime, TestComplete and AQdevTeam. This allows automating the entire quality assurance and release processes.

Main Features

"Visual Macro Designer" – helps to create visually constructed macros.

"Distributed build support" - the ability to distribute the execution of macro operations among multiple computers.

"Remote Macro Execution Control" – running macros located on remote computers and monitor such macro runs.

"Concurrent execution of operations" – organizing the macro operations so that they could be executed simultaneously.

"Charts displaying macro run statistics" - displaying the information in a graphical form within the Charts panel. This feature helps to analyze the ratio of successful and failed runs, the duration of macro runs and the frequency of macro runs over a desired period of time.

"Tasks Scheduler" - is a key feature for creation of automated daily builds. It helps to create scheduled macro runs.

"Macro debugger" - is similar to debugging an application in a development tool. Debugging features allow checking whether the macro functions correctly or quickly locating errors in the macro and fix them.

"Automatic notifications" - getting notification of whether a macro run was successful or not. Notification can be sent in different forms: via E-mail, Windows Messenger, MSN Messenger or Windows Live Messenger, ICQ.

"Assistant" - a context-sensitive Assistant that displays commands, hints and links to help topics.

"Run via command-line" – execution of macros without loading them into the Build Studio IDE - by specifying the desired macro name in the Build Studio's command line.

"Automated Build Studio helps to:"
*Compile applications
*Create installation packages
*Compile help files
*Create, modify and delete registry keys and INI file settings
*Run automated test scripts and profilers
*Post bug reports to issue-tracking systems
*Burn CDs and DVDs
*Register COM and .NET components
*Perform scripting operations in any of 3 scripting languages (VBScript, JScript or DelphiScript)

upported build tools

*Apache Ant
*IncrediBuild by Xoreax Software Ltd.
*Microsoft MSBuild
*NAnt (Gerry Shaw and others)

upported testing, profiling and issue-tracking tools

*Aivosto Project Analyzer
*AQdevTeam by AutomatedQA
*AQtime .NET Edition by AutomatedQA
*AQtime by AutomatedQA
*AQtrace by AutomatedQA
*Borland CaliberRM
*Borland StarTeam
*CodeHealer by SOCK Software
*JUnit
*Microsoft Application Center Test scripts
*Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System
*MSTest
*NUnit (James W. Newkirk and others)
*Peganza Pascal Analyzer
*Perforce by Perforce Software Inc.
*Team Coherence by Quality Software Components
*TestComplete by AutomatedQA
*TestExecute by AutomatedQA

References

* cite web
url = http://www.softpedia.com/get/Programming/Other-Programming-Files/Automated-Build-Studio.shtml
title = Automated Build Studio on Softpedia
* cite web
url = http://www.visualstudiogallery.com/ExtensionDetails.aspx?ExtensionID=7cbdea8d-8867-4355-a9b4-68c07e2bc38c
title = Automated Build Studio and Microsoft Visual Studio

External links

[http://www.automatedqa.com/products/abs Automated Build Studio]