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CruiseControl Reviews & Product Details

CruiseControl is a Java-based open-source framework designed to automate the continuous integration process in software development. It monitors source control repositories for changes, automatically initiates builds, and provides feedback on the build status through various channels. This automation ensures that integration issues are identified and addressed promptly, enhancing the efficiency and reliability of the development cycle. Key Features and Functionality: - Build Loop Automation: Operates as a daemon process that periodically checks the version control system for codebase changes, triggers builds when necessary, and notifies users of the build outcomes. - Extensive Plugin Support: Integrates seamlessly with tools like Ant and various source control systems, offering flexibility to adapt to different development environments. - Web-Based Reporting: Provides a web interface to view current and past build details, including compilation errors, test results, and file changes, facilitating easy monitoring and troubleshooting. - Email Notifications: Sends automated email alerts to inform team members about build statuses, ensuring timely communication of integration results. - Cross-Platform Compatibility: Being Java-based, it runs on multiple operating systems, making it suitable for diverse development setups. Primary Value and Problem Solved: CruiseControl addresses the challenges of integrating code changes from multiple developers by automating the build and integration process. By continuously monitoring the codebase and executing builds upon detecting changes, it helps in early identification of integration issues, reducing the risk of defects in the final product. This leads to improved software quality, faster development cycles, and enhanced collaboration among team members.

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Verified User in Automotive

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/19/2025

"Helpful for daily tasks"

3/5

What do you like best about CruiseControl?

Enjoy being able to see the tasks for the day and schedule. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CruiseControl?

How often it crashes daily, and could be more streamlined. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ricardo T.

Partner Technical Consultant in Azure IaaS & Identity

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/23/2020

"Great tool for Continuous Integration"

4/5

What do you like best about CruiseControl?

Very stable and after the initial set up its easy to ad new projects and even extend to for further automation.

We got to a point where we would manage all of the Testing, Staging and Prod environments directly from CruiseControl Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CruiseControl?

Initially its challenging to get configuration and onboard projects and take advantages of the features such as queues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Johannes H. P. Skov F.

Toolchain Expert

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/29/2020

"It was a pioneer but it is long past its prime."

0/5

What do you like best about CruiseControl?

If you have no automated build process it might be a decent entry level tool to get the feeling for that kind of development, but today much better tools exist for CI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CruiseControl?

Build plans are managed on the server, not in the source code. While not limited to Java, cruisecontrol feels very much like it was build to accommodate java development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering CruiseControl:

Look for tools like github actions or travisci instead. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CruiseControl solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use to have all my builds in cruisecontrol when I was introducing CI to new teams. Now a days I recommend new products where cuild configurations are managed in source code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

shilpa n.

Technical Project Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/18/2020

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"Continuous integration and an extensible framework tool"

5/5

What do you like best about CruiseControl?

Its opensource free and we have tons of plugins to be used .I like the reporting styles in it JSP and the second is the dashboard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CruiseControl?

Its just a Contnuous integration tool .Continuous deployment and continous delivery process part is missing in this tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aswin Kumar N.

Technical Consultant

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/20/2020

"A simple and easily implementable tool"

3/5

What do you like best about CruiseControl?

The best thing is it can be integrated to the environment quite easily Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CruiseControl?

Lack of good GUI Interface so that the integration gets a bit complex Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shubhendu T.

Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - I

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/21/2020

"VeryLikelySuggestToUse"

4/5

What do you like best about CruiseControl?

Its really very easy to use feature rich tool where we can maintain different projects with different languages and acrosss different releases. Single stop tool for CI/CD pipelines... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CruiseControl?

May be XLR like stages to visualize better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Biotechnology

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/18/2020

"Used Cruisecontrol back in 2002, as Configuration Management/Release ."

4.5/5

What do you like best about CruiseControl?

The GUI is excellent and very simple to configure offering clear and concise presentation of builds that have been run. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CruiseControl?

To be honest at the time there was non as there was nothing on the market open source wise that could touch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.