List of Continuous Integration Tools
As Continuous Integration practice is becoming more prevalent among the agile teams, the more and more continuous integration servers sprouting up with new features. Many readers want to know the list of continuous integration servers available so here I am publishing a list Continuous Servers available in the market. I have seen that most popular among paid ones (hands-down) is Jenkins followed by Bamboo, but there are others very feature list free servers are also available to use.
Before selecting a CI server, we need to see which tool fulfills our needs more effectively. Every team has its own needs and requirements and every tool offers different feature set . Following is a list of most common features would like to have on their CI tool.
- Easy setup
- Available plugins (findbugs, emma, coberturna, yodiz etc.)
- Distributed builds
- SCM trigger integration
- Issue tracker Support
- Support documents/help/customer service
- Is it alive tool, new features are coming?
- SCM Support
- Allow to create repositories
- Multiple SCM support
- Support Parallel builds
- Distributed builds
- Force builds
- Notification process i.e. notify when test fails
- Authentication
- Build tools support (Ant, Maven, n ant)
- Test Rendering (nunit, junit etc.)
- Role management
- Language it is built on
Free or Open Source Continuous Integration tools
Paid Continuous Integration Tools
Tool |
Website |
Free/Open Source |
| Anthill Professional | http://www.urbancode.com/html/products/anthillpro/ | N |
| Bamboo | https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BAMBOO/Bamboo+Documentation+Home | N |
| Circle CI | https://circleci.com/ | N |
| Cruise | http://www.thoughtworks.com/products/go-continuous-delivery | N |
| easyCIS | http://easycis.aspone.cz/ | N |
| ElectricCommander | http://www.electric-cloud.com/products/electriccommander.php | N |
| FinalBuilder Server | http://www.finalbuilder.com/FinalBuilder-Server.aspx | N |
| OpenMake Meister | http://www.openmakesoftware.com/openmake-meister-for-intelligent-software-builds/ | N |
| Parabuild | http://www.viewtier.com/products/parabuild/index.htm | N |
| Pulse | http://zutubi.com/products/pulse/ | N |
| TeamCity (EAP) | http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/ | N |
| Zed | http://www.zedbuildsandbugs.com/ | N |
| Team foundation | http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms364045%28v=vs.80%29.aspx | N |
| Luntbuild professional | http://luntbuild.javaforge.com/ | N |
| OpenMake Meister | http://www.openmakesoftware.com/ | N |
| OpenMake Mojo | http://www.openmakesoftware.com/ | N |
Author: Mobeen Siddiqui, Provides Agile coaching services in Minnesota, particularly in greater Minneapolis area.