TeamCity is a builder that basically take on the likes on CC.Net but aims to make the process a little less painful in terms of set up.
A little painful is probably an understatement. TeamCity rocks!
In about 10 minutes I have a build server up and running, including install time! It was completely trivial. I use a build script (Nant or MSBuild) anyway so all I had to do was point source control, point to the to the script and I'm done. Completely painless.
For those not completely au fait with what a build server is, this is what TC is doing for me:
On check someone checking in code to source control:
- It gets latest from the source control
- Builds the code using my config
- Performs static code analysis
- Runs unit tests
- Run integration tests
- Deploys to a drop location, so our "tester" can always get a copy of what we are currently working on.
