The BuildBot is a system to automate the compile/test cycle required by most software projects to validate code changes. It builds and tests the tree each time a change is committed, providing status updates through a Web page or other protocols.
| Tags | Software Development Build Tools Quality Assurance Version Control Libraries Python Modules Testing |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Implementation | Python |
Recent releases


Release Notes: This is a bugfix release.


Release Notes: This release brings a plethora of new features: support for building projects composed of multiple codebases; new, much more flexible property interpolation support (Interpolate); significant improvements to the ForceScheduler; and much more. The release also drops support for some older software: Buildbot now requires at least Python-2.5 and Twisted-9.0.0.


Release Notes: This is a bugfix release to 0.8.6, which was largely a rollup of contributed improvements. It also contains changes to the Web UI, IRC, MailNotifier, properties, and Web hooks, and a number of bugfixes.


Release Notes: This release is largely a rollup of contributed improvements, including a new ForceScheduler to allow much flexible configuration of forced builds. It also contains changes to the web UI, IRC, MailNotifier, properties, and Web hooks, and a number of bugfixes.


Release Notes: This release showcases the work of two Google Summer of Code students, Derek Hurley and Pradeepkumar Gayam, and adds a number of fundamental improvements which have been deferred in previous releases: expanded documentation (including API descriptions), lots of database schema cleanup, and significantly-improved test coverage.
Recent comments
19 Jun 2011 05:31
We have something like that now, by the way: buildbot.net/buildbot/...
12 Jun 2006 12:47
Seems challenging to get started
It could use some good howto documents for getting going. How about something that starts with a small python program, puts it in svn, and setups a buildbot system all on localhost?