Build Management
With the growing popularity of agile development, software builds are getting more attention. Modern practices, such as continuous integration, demand builds to be transparent and seamless. Dimensions CM automates build processes to support these practices. Integrated build management can define, schedule, monitor, and track build tasks across multiple platforms, such as Linux, Unix and Windows. Dimensions CM supports builds in multiple development technologies, including Java, .NET, and native languages.
Audit Trail
With Dimensions CM Build Management and Release Management working together, you get a unified audit trail from initial change request through build and into deployment.
Continuous Integration
Build process is a key component of continuous integration, a popular incremental integration practice. Dimensions CM supports continuous integration by automating build steps, enforcing build frequency, delivering builds, and notifying build results.
Build Tools Support
Dimensions CM executes and manages scripts natively, or orchestrates builds in other build tools such as CruiseControl, OpenMake, ANT, or Make. Dimensions CM will work with your preferred build tool of choice and existing build infrastructure.
Integration Builds
Unfortunately, broken integration builds are so common that they are expected. They are hard to resolve as multiple components from multiple teams are involved. Dimensions CM maintains build dependency among components, automatically validates build outputs and notifies stakeholders of build results.