FinalBuilder

• Overview
• Features and Benefits

Overview

Software projects are inherently complex, and creating a build process can be fraught with errors and oversights. FinalBuilder is a powerful Automated Build & Release tool, making it easy to define and maintain a reliable and repeatable build process.

 

FinalBuilder features over 280 built in Actions which allow you to (these are just a few): 

• Compile Applications from source code.
• Compile Setup/Installer programs.
• Work with Version Control Systems, to Get, Check Out, Check In & Label files.
• Compile Help Files
• Create & Edit INI files & Windows Registry keys
• Burn CD's & DVD's, or Create CD/DVD images (ISO images).
• Zip & UnZip files and other archive formats
• Run Automated Testing
• FTP files to/from servers
• Send Emails, post on News servers
• Schedule builds

Why use FinalBuilder ?

Traditionally, developers have used dos batch files or general purpose scripting tools to automate builds. Batch files and scripts are typically difficult to maintain, difficult for people to understand and suffer from a lack of proper error handling. It can often take a long time to evolve a batch file or script to the point where it is reliable enough for use, whereas automating the build process with FinalBuilder is quick and easy. Anyone can maintain a build process with FinalBuilder.

FinalBuilder will help you to :

• Save time and money - automated builds are typically much quicker than manual builds, sometimes cutting something that took a day down to minutes.
• Allow anyone in the team to run a build - FinalBuilder is so easy to use, so you won't need a "build guru" team member to run all your builds.
• Improve the quality of your releases - FinalBuilder cuts the human error factor substantially, automating the boring repetitive tasks.
• Have a record of what was built when - FinalBuilder logs the output from all the tools it calls, and the logs from previous builds are archived.

Features and Benefits

Intuitive user Interface

FinalBuilder's user interface has been carefully crafted to make it as easy to use as possible. Anyone in your team can use FinalBuilder to automate tasks.

Over 280 built in Action Types

FinalBuilder includes a broad range of action types that cover almost any task you might need to automate.

Advanced Flow control actions

FinalBuilder includes Try/Catch/Finally actions which allow localised structured error handling, and flow control actions such as If Then, Else, Switch/Case, While Loop.

Email, Newsgroup, ICQ, FTP Support

Your build process can email the results of the build to you, so for example if the build fails, it can export the log, attach it to an email and send it to you. Or it can send you an ICQ message. You can announce successful builds on nntp news servers.

Built in Active Scripting Support

Each FinalBuilder action exposes a number of script events, where you have access to all the properties of the action using VBScript or JScript. In addition, the Run Script action allows you to perform specific tasks which might not be covered by the built in action types.

Scheduled Builds

FinalBuilder provides tight integration with the windows scheduling service, which allows builds to be scheduled to run daily, weekly or whatever you wish.

Detailed Logging

Output from all actions in the build process is directed to the build log. The log maintains the same tree structure as the action lists, which makes it easy to find your way in the log file. Logs can be exported in HTML, XML or text formats.

For more information please contact the MicroWay sales team:
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