The pressures on software development organizations have never been higher. Changes in development methodologies, technology infrastructure, and business requirements continue to strain companies' build-test-deploy processes. Traditional, homegrown approaches are becoming obsolete, as they are too hard to manage, too slow, and too hard to understand.
The build-test-deploy process offers the greatest promise for improving the software development process today. For years, tools have addressed front-end software development problems through version control, editors, debuggers, etc. But development teams are now realizing the need to address "back end" software production processes to save time, improve product quality and deliver software to market faster.
What is driving the need for investment in the software production process now?
- Agile development requires fast, automated builds
- Geographically distributed development requires secure, remote access to resources and real-time visibility into results
- Virtualized build and test automation requires integrated, flexible, and self-service tools and processes
- Delivering high quality software requires a scalable test automation and management system
- An effective build-test-deploy process across an enterprise requires centralization and control
- Compliance efforts require a transparent, repeatable software production process
- Build management at an enterprise level requires a scalable, tool-agnostic solution
- Build acceleration across platforms requires a foolproof understanding of dependencies
