Buildbot vs QuickBuild: What are the differences?
What is Buildbot? 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.
What is QuickBuild? Continuous integration and continuous deployment solution. It is a continuous integration and deployment server, featuring hierarchical configuration management, proof build (pre-commit build/test), build promotion pipeline, and flexible build setup.
Buildbot and QuickBuild 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, QuickBuild provides the following key features:
- Single sign-on support
- SCM changes aggregation
- Gerrit and Artifactory integration
Buildbot is an open source tool with 4.22K GitHub stars and 1.44K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Buildbot's open source repository on GitHub.
