Detailed Parabuild Benefits

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Benefits For Release Engineers

Parabuild assumes the burden of creating a uninterrupted software build management infrastructure and allows build and release engineers to concentrate on the challenging task of creating effective software build process.
Parabuild is easy to install and manage. A typical Parabuild installation takes less than three minutes. Adding a new build under the control of Parabuild usually takes about 15 minutes or less. All build and user management is performed through comprehensive Web UI.
Parabuild does not impose any limitations to used build scripting tools. Our server will build any project that can be built from a command line.
With Parabuild QA, nightly and daily builds never break as a result of a broken source base.

Benefits For Software Developers

Parabuild ensures that the changes build cleanly by automatically building new changes submitted to the version control system (VCS).
Parabuild provides exact information about nature of build failure. No more guessing about when and what changes broke the build or tests.
Parabuild allows to take immediate action to fix broken builds by immediately notifying owners of changes that break the build. Other members of the team can also be notified to increase awareness about the build damage.
Parabuild has a simple, convenient and easy-to-use Web UI to access build statuses, logs and results.
Parabuild is attractive to XP and Agile teams with its automatic builds performing continuous integration.
Parabuild improves team morale by reducing chances of checking out broken code to zero. With Parabuild the panic of "I cannot build the latest" is gone; online, up-to-date information about time stamps and change list numbers of last clean builds is provided to use in case the latest build is broken.

Benefits For Distributed Teams

Distributed teams using Parabuild enjoy significant time saving advantages. Time zone differences between distributed teams often reach twelve hours and even more. In such environments changes that break the code base can paralyze the development for up to 24 hours. Parabuild solves this problem by offering automatic integration builds. Automatic builds provide notification if new changes break the code base thus giving a chance to fix the breakage immediately. Even if the code base is broken, Parabuild supplies information about its last clean state so that everyone can check out latest clean code and continue working.

Benefits for QA

With Parabuild QA teams never run idle because of the failure of the nightly build. Parabuild delivers practically unbreakable daily builds that do not break even if the current code base is broken.
QA teams are provided release notes that Parabuild automatically fetches from bug/issue tracking systems.

Benefits for Managers

Most of the software projects fail because they miss deadlines, cannot stay in budget, or are unable to meet the requirements. Parabuild reduces risks of such project failures:

Parabuild give instant insight into team's performance. Is team doing fine by not breaking builds too much? Is test coverage improving? How does it perform compared to a week, a month, a year ago? Does it need help? Parabuild answers these questions.
Parabuild helps to keep the schedule by eliminating significant time losses resulting from breakage of the code base. From the experiences of our customers, we can infer that a single code base breakage that is not immediately identified can cause a loss of about one man-hour per every member of the development and QA teams. Parabuild solves this problem with practically unbreakable QA builds and continuous integration.
Parabuild helps to stay in the budget. Code base breakage may cause an increase in the budget costs to compensate for loss of productivity. Parabuild reduces and oftentimes eliminates such loss of productivity.
Parabuild reduces the turnover of staff. Parabuild increases team morale and helps to maintain capable engineers on board by assuring that the code the engineers check out does not break.
Parabuild shortens the time to market. Parabuild allows to reduce development time and hit the market before competitors.
Parabuild offers quick payback and high ROI. Depending on the size of the team, Parabuild pays for itself in the period of one to ten days. Parabuild ROI is about $2,100 per a member of engineering team.

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