As build lifecycle automation has expanded beyond build and unit test and moved into deployments, promotions, and releases over the last few years, a number of terms have popped up to describe what people are doing. We hear about Enterprise Continuous ...

Speaking to a customer recently, I was told: "Honestly, our favorite thing about moving to AnthillPro is that we've moved beyond 'Plug-n-Pray' deployments. You know, many of our deployments were so scary we'd have a bunch of people in the office ...

AnthillPro's integrated build artifact repository is one of our favorite things about the tool. After all, if you're going to support moving a build through it's lifecycle towards production with deployments and tests, it's helpful to manage the files ...

Michael Sayko, a software configuration management consultant based in Austin, Texas, wrote a great article for CM Crossroads on the advantages of a build pipeline approach to build and deployment automation. You should check it out. I'm a big fan of the ...

Last week Jeffery and presented BDTR Automation in the Enterprise where we discussed the drivers for expanding automation from the team level to the enterprise level, as well as the requisite technical and social components to the design and rollout of ...