FinalBuilder

Product Information

FinalBuilder is an automated build and release management solution for Windows software developers. Use FinalBuilder to define, debug, maintain, run and schedule reliable and repeatable build processes. With support for over 600 actions, it's possible to automate every common task in your build process. Thousands of developers rely on FinalBuilder to automate the build, test and release process.

Features

Graphical Interface

FinalBuilder presents your build process in a logically structured, graphical interface. Any software developer can define and maintain their build with FinalBuilder, without needing to learn a new XML schema or language.

600+ Actions

With its extensive library of pre-written actions, FinalBuilder has an action to automate every common task in your build process. It also integrates with your existing compilers, version control systems and testing tools.

Flow Control

FinalBuilder includes Try and Catch actions for localised error handling as well as all the loops and conditional statements you get in a full programming language.

Scheduled Builds

FinalBuilder provides tight integration with the windows scheduling service, which allows builds to be scheduled to run daily, weekly or whenever you wish.

Integrated Debugging

A debugging engine is fully integrated into the FinalBuilder IDE. You can step between actions, set break points and set variable watches to debug your build process.

Email, MSN, FTP and SFTP Support

Your build process can email the results of the build to you. For example, if the build fails it can export the log, attach it to an email and send it to you. You can announce successful builds on NNTP news servers.

Version Control Integration

FinalBuilder supports more than a dozen version control systems out-of-the-box, so it can get, checkout, tag and perform other build related operations with your existing revision control system.

Action Studio

Action Studio is an IDE for writing custom FinalBuilder actions. It provides a way to extend the built-in functionality in FinalBuilder. Action Studio is included in FinalBuilder and can be accessed under the 'Tools' menu.

Continuous Integration Server

FinalBuilder Professional includes a full featured Continuous Integration and Automated Build server to build and test your code the moment it is checked-in to version control.

Detailed Logging

Output from all actions in the build process is directed to the build log. The log maintains the same tree structure as the action lists, which makes it easy to navigate the log file. Logs can be exported in HTML, XML or text formats.

Variables

Using variables is the key to making your build process dynamic. Use variables to pass information from one action to another, and enable actions to build with user specific or machine specific values.

Active Scripting Support

Each FinalBuilder action exposes a number of script events, where you have access to all the properties of the action using VBScript or JScript. In addition, the 'Run Script' action allows you to perform specific tasks which might not be covered by the built in action types.

Editions

Standard Edition Features

• Graphical User Interface
• Integrated ActiveScript
• Advanced flow control
• ActionStudio
• Debugging including watches and breakpoints
• Hierarchical logging to database.

Professional Edition Features

• IDE Source Control
• Support for running multiple actions in parallel
• Web service actions including support for Amazon EC2
• IIS 6 FTP actions
• WMI actions
• Security actions covering SFTP, FTPS and SSH
• Additional CD/DVD burning actions
• SQL Server actions
• Deployment actions
• Other miscellaneous actions including PDF actions, image manipulation actions and stack/queue actions.

System Req.

Operating Systems supported:

• Windows 7 (x86 and 64)
• Windows Vista (x86 and 64)
• Windows XP SP3+ (x86 and 64)
• Windows Server 2012
• Windows Server 2008 (x86 and 64)
• Windows Server 2008 R2 (x86 and 64)
• Windows Server 2003 (x86 and 64).

NOTE:FinalBuilder is not supported on Windows 95/98/ME/2000

Processor:1ghz or higher

Memory:512MB Ram or higher

Disk Space:50MB

Additional Software Requirements:

• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 SP1
• Microsoft MSXML 6.0