Automate your build easily with FinalBuilder's extensive feature set
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Each FinalBuilder action exposes a number of script events, where you have access to all the
properties of the action using VBScript, JavaScript, Powershell or Iron Python. In addition, the
"Run Script" action allows you to perform specific tasks which might not be covered by the built in
action types.
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.
For a list of all the features in FinalBuilder, and to compare the Standard and Professional
editions, see the
Feature Matrix.