Continuous Integration Feature Matrix

This is just a post to direct people to the CI Feature Matrix that ThoughtWorks maintains. If you're up in the air about choosing a CI system, then this is the page for you. They maintain an unbiased view (their words, not mine) of all the CI systems out there (and there are a lot of them). So if you're wondering or looking for something, check it out.

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Note: TW says the page is unbiased and I believe them, however when anyone puts together a matrix like this sometimes they tend to include features that only *your* system has (so you can create a checkmark in that column) that no other system can measure up to. I don't feel TW did this here, but I do want to point out this for making your own unbiased comparison.

If anything, the matrix can be used as an idea generator. Wherever you see a red and the project is open source, maybe it's time to sit down and write a plugin/patch/add-on and contribute! Think about it and give it some consideration, it would only make these projects even better with more capabilities.

Published Monday, April 21, 2008 11:18 PM by Bil Simser

Comments

# re: Continuous Integration Feature Matrix

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 3:06 AM by Andy Stopford

Hi Bill,

Going through the features I suspect it was geared at Cruise Control first and then see what the others match up to. At the time of writing I am only aware of CCNet's support for both MbUnit and XUnit in the servers listed so if folks are using those tools and want a CI server then that is worth considering.

Andy

# re: Continuous Integration Feature Matrix

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 7:40 AM by Igor Brejc

Is it just me or is the ThoughtWorks' Confluence Web server non-responsive most of the times?

# re: Continuous Integration Feature Matrix

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 11:36 PM by Sriram Narayanan

@Igor: Thanks for the comment about the Confluence server, I'll look into it today (I'm one of the sysadmins at Thoughtworks)