Continuous Integration Evaluation

The continuous integration system is responsible for scheduling the builds according the changes in the product repositories. It delegates scheduled builds to builders that are prepared with build environments specific to their mapped platform or the platform's architecture.

Gitlab-CI

Gitlab-CI aims to integrate with the Gitlab Collaboration Server. At the time of the project evaluation the project is hosted at a Gitlab-Server at the HTWG, but it is planned to be published on GitHub. Therefore, Gitlab-CI is not an option.

Buildbot

Buildbot is based on Python, and is also completely configurable through the Python language. This brings both, complexity and flexibility. Judging by the list of features and examining the documentation, all of the above design decisions are possible to implement using Buildbot.

Jenkins

Java based continuous integration tool, which is the first and last criteria to analyze.

Result Continuous Integration Evaluation

Buildbot will be chosen as the CI-system used within the embEDUX build system. It was chosen, because

• it fulfills all of the design decisions
• it is Python based, which is very flexible and all team members are already familiar with Python
• there is no serious competition

Master and Slave Terminologies

Buildbot uses the terms Buildmaster and Buildslaves as a referral to the active scheduling component and the passive executors.