BuildBeat is a comprehensive automated software build management system. A build management system gives the software team, including developers, managers, and testers a central point of administration for configuring and executing a build process for one or more software projects.

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Without a build management system, building a software project is typically an ad hoc, haphazard, and time-consuming process. A build management system brings a sense of order to the entire project life cycle, eliminating chaos, increasing software quality, enhancing project visibility, and improving team communication.

The BuildBeat build engine monitors one or more software projects and automatically instantiates software builds when desired. BuildBeat supports both continuous integration and scheduled build models. Projects can be configured to execute any number of tasks, and can spawn out to external build scripting engines such as NAnt, MSBuild, Ant, Maven, etc. BuildBeat automatically logs all build task information to an integrated data warehouse, keeping a complete audit trail of past builds.

In continuous integration environments, build performance is critical. Therefore, BuildBeat allows build acceleration by distributing the workload among multiple computers, a technique known as distributed building. The BuildBeat engine runs on multiple platforms, enabling cross-platform builds.

BuildBeat is based on a unique asynchronous messaging architecture, which provides for live build monitoring and instantaneous build status updates. Software development teams utilizing agile development methods and test-driven development will appreciate BuildBeat's tightly integrated support for unit testing. Finally, BuildBeat's web-based reporting engine provides a central project dashboard for reviewing information about each build.

Any software development project, be it a traditionally managed project, or an agile software project, can benefit from an automated, repeatable build cycle driven by a professional, full-featured build management system.

Agile software development teams will especially appreciate BuildBeat's integrated support for continuous integration, unit testing, and distributed building.