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Asked: 2026-05-12T23:59:21+00:00

I’m curious. I’m looking into creating a CI server and wondering, after the first

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I’m curious. I’m looking into creating a CI server and wondering, after the first couple of obvious tasks, what else can an automated build do?

The tasks that I’m aware of (not in any order):

  • Compile (debug/release versions)
  • Code style conformance
  • Automated tests (unit/integration/etc.)
  • Code coverage
  • Version incrementing
  • Deployment

I’m not looking for the names of software, the build engine to use, or anything like that; just the repetitive and (maybe) important tasks that can be automated to make the build process ridiculously simple from an end-user perspective.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The simple answer to this, is basically anything that a script can be written for.

    For example if you are using CruiseControl, anything that you can do from an ant script can be automated; and that includes calling other (not necessarily ant scripts as well).

    That being said, you’ve got most bases covered in your initial list. To that I would add

    • Generation of documentation
    • Repository maintencnace and backup operations
    • Auto-update company website, e.g. whenever there’s a new release of software, documentation is updated, etc
    • Reports, e.g. aggregate and summarise bug tracker issues and activity per project/ product

    HTH

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