AppVeyor Reviews & Product Details

The best thing I like about Appveyor is its ease of use. The configuration is very straightforward and easy to implement using appveyor.yml file. It gives clear logs and easy-to-debug build steps which is very helpful is diagnosing any build issue. Its integrated with Bitbucket in my project and I am using it on a daily basis. Customer support is also very good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes I feel the build process is too slow when there are multiple commits and there are no specific message for it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Unlike other C.I tools that are built in a linux environment, appveyor is built in a windows environment which allows you to test application performance in windows. Appveyor has a very clear documentation which allows you to easily set up your appveyor.yml file of copy a pre-configured file Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Unlike Travis.yaml file, the appveyor.yml file requires a lot more commands to configure your project of C.I Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Unlike other CI services, AppVeyor has Windows-based infrastructure, which allows me to test my software on all major platforms. Setting up projects with appveyor.yml is straightforward and matches with how other similar non-Windows based services do configuration.

Appveyor's Python support is impressive as it offers several different Python versions including both 32 and 64 bit versions of Python, and Miniconda-based Python installations. The documentation associated with the Python environment is also well done and contains the information you need to get your builds running quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Builds can be slow in the free version that does not allow concurrent jobs. The paid option allowing concurrent jobs is too expensive. While AppVeyor allows your to change what your configuration file is named, it does annoy me that the default is appveyor.yml, rather than a file prepended with a dot to make it hidden. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ease of configuration. The fact that it's a hosted service is a massive plus because it means you don't have to manage the underlying infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It needs more configuration options for parallel builds. I'd like to be able to limit the amount of builds per branch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Well, Firstly, its free for open source projects. A good CI build that includes build, test, and deploy means that you don't have to fear your code. When compared to Travis CI which is expensive for active projects, artifacts here are easily available. However for database CI AppVeyor has the major advantage that it comes with a SQL Server database on the build agents by default. This significantly simplifies the setup and avoids the need to provision, setup and teardown database virtual machines on each build. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Its slow compared to Travis CI.

2. Platform Development!- Works for only windows! It would be good to have all in one place( for linux users).

3. Free accounts have slow build. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- NuGet.Support

- Good integration with GitHub pull requests

- Configuration in YAML

- Deployment to custom environments

- best 4 Windows

- Safe with isolated build environments

- good customer support

- outstanding free service for open-source projects Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- a bit slow than others

- need to support more operating systems

- No Java support

- No IDE integration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best feature of AppVeyor is they allow *any* artefacts to be captured from the build and downloaded easily from Appveyor. This is a big feature over Travis, which has a recipe for using Amazon S3 to store artefacts, but that turns out to be quite expensive for very active projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No support for Github organisation authorisation.

Slow builds for free accounts.

Protection of environment variables is sub-optimal. Several times a command has failed and Appveyor has dumped out all variables, including passwords, to the log. As the log is on the net, the log then needs to be deleted. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We've been using AppVeyor for over a year. We recently jumped up to 5 concurrent jobs, which really helps speed up our matrix builds. Pricing is simple. Support is superb. I really like that they have an integrated NuGet feed. We use it for build dependences and Chocolatey software installs. Setting up environments to deploy web app builds to Azure App Service is simple. Many developers at our company use AppVeyor for their open source projects too, so they are familiar with it, and some build scripts can be shared. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The updates have caused our builds to break a couple of times, but switching back to the previous image was just a single line change in appveyor.yml. At times, it would be useful to control the build image, or at least a layer on top of their's. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Language and framework support. Every problem that I have with travis, appveyor solves it. I tried a c++ project and setting it up to use a proper compiler was a breeze as appveyor comes with standard msvc and mingw compiler suites, ruby, python and most common languages are well supported. Builds started almost right away and showed up in the console whenever I pushed to github and the builds were very fast too. The web-ui is pretty slick and barebones, but it works for most of the cases. It mails your registered email address with latest build results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Obviously, platform support. It works only well for windows. As it is right now, you have to use travis for linux/osx AND appveyor for windows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ability to build my linux applications under windows using cygwin or msys Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

not clear if / how to set up concurrent builds Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.