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Build Automation and Process Management

Build Pro provides a simple, easy to use environment for creating, managing, and running scripts to perform any scripted process such as application building and packaging. You can quickly and easily create scripts to automate the building, unit testing, installation packaging, and verification of build images for your software applications. Whether your build processing is simple or very complex involving many steps and subprocesses, Build Pro makes it easy to create accurate, reliable, and consistent build processes in your development workflow. With Build Pro building, packaging, and verifying your software application is done with the single push of a button and it eliminates errant or missed steps in your build processes that occur when manually performing those build steps. Build Pro ensures that your build process is done accurately every time. Build Pro is a process scripting environment so not only is it great for Build Masters to perform their application builds, but it is perfect for performing any other scripted tasks you have. Build Pro is a much better alternative to using Python or Perl scripts to perform repeated tasks.

Whether you currently use another build tool or manually perform the building and packaging steps for your applications, Build Pro can simplify and streamline your build process and ensure consistent and repeatable results. Build Pro is a straightforward, easy to use, and cost effective way to automate your application build and environment management processes. Build Pro is a must for both Build Masters and Developers.

Key Features

Create Automated, Accurate, and Repeatable Build Processes

Build Pro lets you quickly create scripts to perform build processes of any complexity. These scripts can perform any action you need and can be run at the push of a button, allowing your build processes to automate all steps involved in the build including staging, building, automated testing, packaging of deliverables etc.

Easy To Use

Build Pro has a simple and easy to use interface making creating and organizing the steps involved in your process a snap. Once your script is created you can run all or a portion of it with the push of a button.

Perform Any Build Action

You can run any action as a Build Pro step. All file system actions such as copying, deleting, and renaming files and folders are supported. You can run any external application by command line or directly as an executable, which allows you to run any third party application. Build Pro also directly supports Source Reliance, Clarity, Unit Test Pro, Microsoft Visual Studio, and Advanced Installer actions.

Use Variables to Simplify and Generalize Processes

Build Pro allows you to create variables and use them in parameter and executable path specifications. Variables are simply text values associated with a name that can be used in the build step definitions. They allow you to generalize scripts by defining common values used in the script, providing one place the value is specified. Variables are also recursively evaluated so variables can refer to other variables. They provide a powerful way to create generalized and reusable scripts.

Quickly Create Even the Most Complex Build Processes

The Build Pro interface is very easy to use. You can quickly create all the build steps involved in your build process and order those steps as they need to be executed. You can perform any action, including calling any external program, as well as other Build Pro scripts. In minutes you can set up a script that stages source, builds the application components, generates the installation packages, runs automated unit and UI tests, and verifies the end deliverable components.

All Build Execution Output Is Logged

All build step output and results are logged in Build Pro. If build steps generate command line or debug output, that is captured in the log. If a build step fails, whether it is a file system operation or external application, the results are logged and the build run is stopped so you can determine the cause of the problem. This ensures that build step failures are not missed or overlooked.

Workflow Integration

Build Pro can easily be integrated into your existing workflow upstream of the build process by calling build scripts from the Build Pro command line. Build Pro can also integrate with your workflow downstream of the build process by calling any external programs or directly supported applications.

Tightly Integrated with Source Reliance, Unit Test Pro, and Clarity

Build Pro directly supports Source Reliance, Unit Test Pro, and Clarity. Build Pro also supports Microsoft Visual Studio and Advanced installer. You can create build steps that directly perform actions in these applications. Of course, since you can also call any external program you can execute actions in any application you need even if it is not directly supported.

Run Build Pro Scripts from Within Scripts

Build Pro scripts can be called from within other scripts and there is no limit to the call depth for script references. This allows you to create well organized build processes based on functional decomposition. You can create a script that performs a single common process for instance, and simply call it from other scripts as needed. This confines the code for performing common functions to a single module making the scripts easier to understand and maintain.

Easily Incorporate All Important Steps In Your Builds

Since Build Pro can run any program and log the results, you can include all the important and often omitted steps that should be run during the application build process. These include unit tests, UI tests, load testing, build artifact verification, package verification, etc. These steps are often left out or are incomplete when they have to be executed manually. You can easily create build scripts that perform all automated tests and verification so the single process does everything that needs to be done ensuring the build is complete and correct.

Use Build Pro for Repeated Non-Build Processes

Build Pro is a process scripting environment. You can use it for anything that needs to be repeatedly performed, not just application build management. It is perfect for performing tasks such as development environment setup, application project source collection and staging, performing development builds, running unit tests in the development environment, documentation and artifact storage and retrieval, etc. Rather than use Python or other scripting language to perform repeated tasks, Build Pro provides far more capability and is much easier to use and manage.