Buildbot vs PHPCI: What are the differences?
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; PHPCI: Open source continuous integration tool for PHP. It is a free, open source, continuous integration software written in PHP and designed specifically for PHP projects. Integrates PHPUnit, PHPMD, PHPCPD, PHPCS and more.
Buildbot and PHPCI 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, PHPCI provides the following key features:
- Clones your project from Github, Bitbucket or a local path
- Allows you to set up and tear down test databases
- Installs your project's Composer dependencies
Buildbot and PHPCI are both open source tools. It seems that Buildbot with 4.07K GitHub stars and 1.4K forks on GitHub has more adoption than PHPCI with 2.41K GitHub stars and 493 GitHub forks.
