Buildbot vs Hudson: What are the differences?
Developers describe Buildbot as "Python-based continuous integration testing framework". BuildBot is a system to automate the compile/test cycle required by most software projects to validate code changes. By automatically rebuilding and testing the tree each time something has changed, build problems are pinpointed quickly, before other developers are inconvenienced by the failure. On the other hand, Hudson is detailed as "Extensible continuous Integration Server". Hudson monitors the execution of repeated jobs, such as building a software project or jobs run by cron. Among those things, currently Hudson focuses on the following two jobs:
1.Building/testing software projects continuously, just like CruiseControl or DamageControl
2.Monitoring executions of externally-run jobs.
Buildbot and Hudson can be primarily classified as "Continuous Integration" tools.
Some of the features offered by Buildbot are:
- run builds on a variety of slave platforms
- arbitrary build process: handles projects using C, Python, whatever
- minimal host requirements: Python and Twisted
On the other hand, Hudson provides the following key features:
- Easy installation
- Easy configuration
- Change set support
Buildbot is an open source tool with 4.04K GitHub stars and 1.39K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Buildbot's open source repository on GitHub.