What is BuildBot.io?
BuildBot.io is an open-source continuous integration and deployment platform designed to automate software development processes. It supports building, testing and deploying software across a variety of platforms and languages.
Some key features of BuildBot include:
- Support for major version control systems like Git, Mercurial, SVN, and others
- Integration with various build tools and test frameworks (Make, Ant, Maven, Python unittest, JUnit, etc.)
- Ability to distribute builds across multiple build slaves to parallelize work
- Real-time notifications and reporting through web UI, IRC, or emails
- Pluggable architecture to customize for specific workflows
- Scales from small projects to large software stacks across multiple platforms
BuildBot can monitor repositories and automatically run builds when changes are committed. The web UI and reporting enables developers to track build status and issues in real-time. It's used by many open source projects and companies to automate their continuous integration and deployment pipelines.