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<\/h1>\nBamboo \u2013 A Continues Integration Server<\/h1>\n
Continuous integration (CI) brings faster feedback to your development process, preventing bugs from piling up and reducing the risk of project delays.<\/p>\n
Bamboo enables development teams of any size to adopt CI in minutes, easily integrate it with their work day and scale their build farm using elastic resources in the Amazon EC2 cloud.<\/p>\n
Continuous integration (CI) brings faster feedback to your development process, preventing bugs from piling up and reducing the risk of project delays.<\/p>\n
Bamboo enables development teams of any size to adopt CI in minutes, easily integrate it with their work day and scale their build farm using elastic resources in the Amazon EC2 cloud.<\/p>\n
Bamboo makes every stage of continuous integration adoption easy, intuitive and pain-free.<\/strong><\/p>\nSet up your first CI build in minutes
\nIntegrate\/ Collaboration CI with your current tools and workflow
\nScale your build farm on-premises or in the cloud!
\nAnalyse and improve your build performance
\nExtend Bamboo with plugins and the REST API
\nFull feature list and system requirements<\/p>\n
Integrate\/ Collaboration<\/h2>\n
Bamboo lets you pick how and when you’re notified about builds and integrates easily with tools you’re already using, so your team will be able to work together to keep your builds green!<\/strong><\/p>\nNotifications via email, RSS, IM or IDE pop-up:<\/strong>
\nWith Bamboo each team member can choose how and when to be notified:<\/p>\nEmail, RSS, IM or IDE pop-up notifications
\nCustomised email templates (HTML or plain-text)<\/p>\n
Choose which builds to be notified about:<\/p>\n
All builds for a project
\nSpecific build plans
\nEvery time a build finishes, only when it fails X times, only when it hangs, or only when it times out<\/p>\n
Priorities your build queue<\/strong>
\nWhen your build agents are busy, Bamboo builds go into a queue.<\/p>\nNeed to see the results of a build ASAP? You can:<\/p>\n
Escalate builds to the front of the queue with one click.
\nStop in-progress builds.
\nMove lower-priority builds to the back of the line.<\/p>\n
Apply labels and comments to build results<\/strong>
\nWhy did a build fail? What did you fix to turn it green again? Which builds have been tested by your QA team? What builds are approved for release to customers? Bamboo let’s you provide content to your builds results using labels and comments.<\/p>\n\n- Apply labels and comments via your Web browser, IDE, or Bamboo’s unique 2-way IM system<\/li>\n
- Subscribe to an RSS feed of all build results with certain labels (e.g. “QA_FAILED”, “PATCH”,etc.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Run and fix builds from Eclipse and IntelliJ<\/strong>
\nBamboo integrates with Eclipse and IntelliJ IDEA to bring build management and notification into the IDE:<\/p>\n\n- Run, label and comment builds<\/li>\n
- Receive pop-up notifications for builds you care about<\/li>\n
- Quickly identify failing tests and re-run them locally with just one click<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Link builds to JIRA issues<\/strong>
\nBamboo integrates with JIRA and allows you to easily:<\/p>\n\n- View all builds related to an issue<\/li>\n
- View all issues related to a build, and mark them resolved<\/li>\n
- Embed build status and summary gadgets into your JIRA project dashboards<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
View changes that triggered builds with FishEye<\/strong>
\nBy integrating Bamboo with FishEye, you can quickly see what files were changed to trigger a build and what JIRA issue the changes were made for. Want to see exactly what changed? FishEye diffs are just a click away!<\/p>\nRun Clover Test Optimization and code coverage<\/strong>
\nIntegrate Clover for Java Test Optimization and code coverage, and you’ll instantly get faster builds and better code quality insights!<\/p>\n\n- Clover Test Optimization can make your Java unit and functional tests run several times faster<\/li>\n
- View method, branch and statement coverage<\/li>\n
- See when and where coverage drops over time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Display results in Confluence dashboard portlets<\/strong>
\nBamboo provides portlets that can easily be embedded on any Confluence page, so you can keep every project stakeholder up to date on project status.<\/p>\n\n- See pass\/fail status, duration, and number of failed tests for recent runs of a build plan.<\/li>\n
- View the latest status for all builds in a project.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Embed JavaScript widgets in any HTML page<\/strong>
\nBamboo provides JavaScript widgets that can be embedded into any HTML page. With just a few lines of code, create custom pages that include:<\/p>\n\n- Latest build results<\/li>\n
- Latest changes<\/li>\n
- Last result of all builds in a project<\/li>\n
- Plan summary graphs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Scale Your Build System<\/h2>\n
As your team runs more and more CI builds, you’ll want to add more computing power to maintain fast feedback on your build and test results.<\/p>\n
Bamboo makes scaling your build system a snap with:<\/p>\n
\n- Remote agents that run on-premises<\/li>\n
- Elastic agents in the Amazon EC2 cloud.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Remote agents<\/strong><\/p>\nYour Bamboo server can manage dozens of remote agents simultaneously, taking advantage of available computing power to provide the fastest feedback possible. With remote agents you can:<\/p>\n
\n- Run multiple builds at once to reduce feedback times<\/li>\n
- Test on different platform configurations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Elastic agents<\/strong><\/p>\nElastic agents are remote agents that run in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). By using the cloud, you can instantly scale your build environment as your development cycles ebb and flow and build queues become longer. Bamboo makes it easy to customize and manage your elastic agents:<\/p>\n
\n- Schedule agents to start and stop based on known peaks and valleys in your need for CI builds.<\/li>\n
- Cut operational costs by taking advantage of EC2’s reserved instance pricing and availability zones.<\/li>\n
- Customise agent images with different operating systems, installed software, and computing power to create the most flexible building and testing system possible.<\/li>\n
- Reduce data transfer and startup times by using Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) for persistence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Every build agent (remote or local) has specific capabilities that are used to match the requirements of queued builds.<\/p>\n
Bamboo’s web interface makes it easy to manage all your agents and view a log of recent activity for each agent.<\/p>\n
Analyse and Improve Your Builds<\/h2>\n
Your team is running builds on every commit, comprehensive performance and functional tests are running every night, and your build farm has been scaled out. Wondering where and how you can make improvements? Bamboo makes it easy to see the performance of your builds and identify trouble spots and possible improvements.<\/p>\n
\n- Find out why a build failed<\/li>\n
- View build plan performance across time<\/li>\n
- See what’s breaking most so you can investigate<\/li>\n
- Compare several plans<\/li>\n
- Compare team performance and drill into author details<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
What happened?<\/strong>
\nWhen your builds turn red, you want to fix them as fast as possible! Bamboo provides information to your team that makes root-cause analysis easier, so you can turn the build green again ASAP.<\/p>\n\n- Full stack traces for compilation failures<\/li>\n
- Full stack traces for test failures<\/li>\n
- Highlighting of newly failed tests<\/li>\n
- Click-through to the failing code from within the IDE<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Build plan summaries at a glance<\/strong>
\nBamboo’s plan summary view presents a wealth of information about each build plan including:<\/p>\n\n- Results of the latest build<\/li>\n
- Historical pass percentage and average build time<\/li>\n
- Result, duration, and number of failed tests for recent builds<\/li>\n
- Duration and failure trends across time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Find your trouble spots<\/strong>
\nBamboo identifies problem areas within each build based on its performance history including:<\/p>\n\n- Most common failures<\/li>\n
- Tests that take longest to fix<\/li>\n
- Long-running tests<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Compare your build plans<\/strong>
\nWhich builds are turning red the most often? Which builds are taking longest to run? Bamboo reports provide useful information within a few clicks, for the exact set of plans you care about. Reports include:<\/p>\n\n- Success percentage<\/li>\n
- Duration<\/li>\n
- Activity<\/li>\n
- of tests<\/li>\n
- of failed tests<\/li>\n
- Time to fix failures<\/li>\n
- Clover code coverage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
View the CI scorecard<\/strong>
\nWho’s submitting bullet-proof code? Who’s going to buy beer for breaking the most builds? Bamboo provides insightful reports for:<\/p>\n