a little madness

Zutubi is proud to announce the availability of the Pulse automated build (or continuous integration) server for sale from today. This is the culmination of many months of development and beta testing. We would like to thank all of our beta testers for their feedback during this period.

If you haven’t tried it yet, download pulse today and let us know what you think!

We are happy to announce version 1.0.4 of pulse. Highlights in this release include:

• Support for CppUnit
• More flexible notification conditions: you can now write arbitrary boolean expressions to configure when you get notified!
• The ability to clone projects: simplifying setup for multiple similar projects.
• Improvements to the test results view for large test suites: expand/collapse suites, show/hide successful tests.

Full release notes are available. Thanks to the beta testers!

After a solid week of beta testing and feedback (thanks to our beta testers!) pulse version 1.0.2 is ready! You can download the new release at the pulse downloads page. Highlights in this release:

• Much improved RSS support
• Support for maven 2 projects
• Improved “latest changes by me” view
• Several other improvements and bug fixes

See the full release notes for further details. Thanks again to our beta testers, keep on stretching it!

Things have been a bit quiet around this blog the past week as we launched both our new website zutubi.com and the first public beta of pulse. Pulse is an automated build (or continuous integration) server built on the principles that are important to us:

• Adaptability to existing environments: everything within pulse is built on a generic core engine that can run any command line build and extract useful information from the results. When we add specific tool support, we build it upon this core, ensuring the core is flexible enough to deal with many tools.
• Developer control: pulse gives every developer their own account. Each developer has a configurable dashboard that shows the information they want to see. Developers can also control how and when they are notified of build events.
• Simple configuration: pulse has a full web interface that allows you to configure the server in minutes. You can build a project without editing a single text file. Alternatively, you can choose to configure your project using a simple XML file and version it in your SCM with your code.

That’s enough marketing here :). If you are interested, head over to the website for full details. Give pulse a free trial for 30 days and let us know what you think. Sign up for the beta program and get discounts on commercial licenses!