# CruiseControl Reviews **Vendor:** sourceforge **Category:** [Continuous Integration Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/continuous-integration) **Average Rating:** 3.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 23 ## About CruiseControl 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. ## CruiseControl Pros & Cons **What users dislike:** - Users report **performance issues** with CruiseControl, including frequent crashes and a need for greater streamlining. (1 reviews) - Users report frequent **software bugs** causing daily crashes, indicating a need for a more streamlined experience. (1 reviews) ## CruiseControl Reviews ### 1. Helpful for daily tasks **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 19, 2025 **What do you like best about CruiseControl?** Enjoy being able to see the tasks for the day and schedule. **What do you dislike about CruiseControl?** How often it crashes daily, and could be more streamlined. **What problems is CruiseControl solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scheduling and customer experience. ### 2. Great tool for Continuous Integration **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ricardo T. | Partner Technical Consultant in Azure IaaS & Identity, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2020 **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 **What do you dislike about CruiseControl?** Initially its challenging to get configuration and onboard projects and take advantages of the features such as queues. **What problems is CruiseControl solving and how is that benefiting you?** Previously the tasks on deploying from sandbox environments to staging and then to production would rely on a lot of scripts and manual processes which are prone to human errors. Using CruiseControl we can automate all of those tasks and agilize the continuous deployments. ### 3. It was a pioneer but it is long past its prime. **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Johannes H. P. Skov F. | Toolchain Expert, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2020 **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. **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. **Recommendations to others considering CruiseControl:** Look for tools like github actions or travisci instead. **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. ### 4. Continuous integration and an extensible framework tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** shilpa n. | Technical Project Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2020 **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. **What do you dislike about CruiseControl?** Its just a Contnuous integration tool .Continuous deployment and continous delivery process part is missing in this tool **What problems is CruiseControl solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have used this tool extensively for doing multiple continuous integration of .NET and java projects.We have also integrated it with SVN and nexus ### 5. A simple and easily implementable tool **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aswin Kumar N. | Technical Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 20, 2020 **What do you like best about CruiseControl?** The best thing is it can be integrated to the environment quite easily **What do you dislike about CruiseControl?** Lack of good GUI Interface so that the integration gets a bit complex **Recommendations to others considering CruiseControl:** If the environment is mostly made of perl and bash scripts, Cruisecontrol can be easily implemented **What problems is CruiseControl solving and how is that benefiting you?** Implementing the continuous integration tool framework with a complex change management tool. ### 6. VeryLikelySuggestToUse **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shubhendu T. | Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - I, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 21, 2020 **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... **What do you dislike about CruiseControl?** May be XLR like stages to visualize better. **Recommendations to others considering CruiseControl:** Nice one stop tool for the purpose **What problems is CruiseControl solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using as CI/CD system ### 7. Used Cruisecontrol back in 2002, as Configuration Management/Release . **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Biotechnology | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2020 **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. **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. **What problems is CruiseControl solving and how is that benefiting you?** There was no need to manually schedule builds on a daily basis as this was handled in Cruisecontrol. ### 8. A simple and easy integration tool **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 13, 2020 **What do you like best about CruiseControl?** It is a feature rich tool. Good GUI Easy to configure **What do you dislike about CruiseControl?** Sometimes during integration can get a bit complex **What problems is CruiseControl solving and how is that benefiting you?** When working on multiple projects, it can help. No need to schedule daily Single tool rather than use multiple for same purpose ### 9. Experience with cruise control **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 13, 2020 **What do you like best about CruiseControl?** Configurations are best, easy to integrate with other plugins **What do you dislike about CruiseControl?** When I used a way back . It was not integrated with gradle **Recommendations to others considering CruiseControl:** Good CI alternative **What problems is CruiseControl solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used as an alternative to Jenkins ### 10. Cruise control recommend **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 13, 2020 **What do you like best about CruiseControl?** Simple and best tool. Maintaining the tool is simple **What do you dislike about CruiseControl?** Pipeline features need to include to use tool to configure the jobs **Recommendations to others considering CruiseControl:** Good tool setup and live in short time **What problems is CruiseControl solving and how is that benefiting you?** CI/CD ### 11. Simple, Intutive, powerful, has a learning curve **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2020 **What do you like best about CruiseControl?** XML based configuration Easy to automate, orchestrate and manage. **What do you dislike about CruiseControl?** Need more documentation and, how-to-do tutorial. Jenkins has become more populate than Cruse Control. **What problems is CruiseControl solving and how is that benefiting you?** Build automation, Release Engineering tasks and procedure automation ### 12. Good for version management and push automation **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Erin H. | Technical Project Manager, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2016 **What do you like best about CruiseControl?** We use cruise control to automate builds to different internal (and production) environments. We associate different branches with different environments and then when you click a button to build, you will build from the associated branch. Pretty straightforward and anyone can do it from a user standpoint. **What do you dislike about CruiseControl?** At least in our version, there's no confirmation window after you click to build. It'd be nice to confirm they were building to the right environment before executing the build. **Recommendations to others considering CruiseControl:** This can be a pretty powerful tool if you use it right. Make sure you do your research. **What problems is CruiseControl solving and how is that benefiting you?** We need to be working on multiple future releases at once without interfering with more current releases. ### 13. Great software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bryan K. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2016 **What do you like best about CruiseControl?** This software is easy use and this is how software should be. **What do you dislike about CruiseControl?** Not a thing. I love this software and look forward to using it. **What problems is CruiseControl solving and how is that benefiting you?** Have been using CCNet in our development team environment for a long time and also CCTray which is great too. Additionally I built an utility similar to CCtray for your Android device so you can check your projects build status form your device. ### 14. A good and simple tool to start with your in-house CI adventure. **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rafael A. | Senior .Net Web Developer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2016 **What do you like best about CruiseControl?** I like the community support and all the add-ins/plugins that exist. I have used CC for a couple of years and I have not faced a situation where the community can't help or where there isn't a plugin to simplify the life. **What do you dislike about CruiseControl?** I really dislike the use usage of XML to configure it. Sometime the config file can get really convoluted if you just add more and more projects in the same XML file. Even if there is a GUI tool and a schema checker I think that YAML or JSON would be a better tools for the job. **What problems is CruiseControl solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have solved a Continuous Deployment scenario of multi-tenant projects using a master-slave CC configuration with a maximum of 5 nodes, from pulling de source code, running the testes and building the deployment packages and sending them to the specific servers that will run such a part of the system. That configuration saved a lot of time and it was all in our VCS to make all the team responsible of the build. ### 15. It is a simple tool built for teams looking for automated builds and CI. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Janmejay S. | Architect, Internet, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 06, 2016 **What do you like best about CruiseControl?** - Simplicity - Small codebase - Pioneer in the area of automated-builds and CI - Very easy to get started with **What do you dislike about CruiseControl?** - Lack of advanced features(multi-module builds, artifact management, jenkins like plugin ecosystem etc) and integrations - Hasn't had a lot of steam in the last few years **Recommendations to others considering CruiseControl:** Evaluate the complexity of usecase and choose between CruiseControl, Go (another product by Thoughtworks and Jenkins (a plugin-rich open-source offering) depending on usecase being limited to a team, entire-org involving complex build dependencies or would benefit from kind of build-tool, bug-tracker, VCS, artifact-management, release-management integration that Go and Jenkins provide. Jenkins has an edge in plugin-ecosystem, but Go wins in enterprise friendly and CI/CD friendly features. **What problems is CruiseControl solving and how is that benefiting you?** Problem: - CI for multiple projects, involving different languages, frameworks and build environments Benefits: - It ensures sane state of codebase with multiple checkins per day and large dev-teams - It has fairly straightforward APIs, which allow build-bot, email, custom-electronic-component (led blinker etc) integration, which allows it to be used as shared dashboard at a floor level, rather than at a developer's desktop level - Codebase if fairly approachable and making changes is easy for new users - ### 16. Easy to use continuous integration system **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Taras K. | Software Engineer, Financial Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 07, 2016 **What do you like best about CruiseControl?** If you are in need of some sort of continuous integration system, there are quite a few options. You might heard of Jenkins, or Travis. But setting them up requires a lot of knowledge, lot of tools and a separate machine (or few). If you need a simple solution, that is easy to install and that will just work, CruiseControl is the way to go. It does not have all the bells and whistles of the big systems, but it makes the job done. I've used it quite a few times, when a client wanted a simple easy to setup system. **What do you dislike about CruiseControl?** It might be hard to configure and it might lack some features that the big systems provide, like Web interface. **Recommendations to others considering CruiseControl:** Just try it. It's easier to set up then the big systems. **What problems is CruiseControl solving and how is that benefiting you?** The tool is great for solving a problem when one needs a simple build system. ### 17. OK, if you like hassles **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2016 **What do you like best about CruiseControl?** It's nice that cruise control is a mature, and popular CI platform that you can host yourself. This allows you to automate any number of build setups, as the configuration is 100% in your control. **What do you dislike about CruiseControl?** The same aspects that make it amazing, are actually it's downfall. I'd rather write my own software, than manage what at times turns into a picky piece of software. And, once we start talking hosted CI solutions, there's little benefit to sticking with cruise control at that point. **Recommendations to others considering CruiseControl:** Skip it, and find a hosted CI solution. You'll thank me later. **What problems is CruiseControl solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cruise control allowed us to automate our unit testing suite. It was nice to have an central "authority" for if things worked or not.@ ### 18. CruiseControl flexible CI option **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ralph H. | Senior Software Developer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 07, 2016 **What do you like best about CruiseControl?** Cruise Control was the best CI platform for a very legacy application (custom build process, app code in C), as it handled the unusual requirements very gracefully. **What do you dislike about CruiseControl?** I had some issues setting up the Ruby environment, but I think that was more of an issue with my custom environment rather than CruiseControl itself. **What problems is CruiseControl solving and how is that benefiting you?** Build monitoring and automation. Needed to know when the build was broken. Unfortunately project never completed due to time constraints and other organizational issues. ### 19. Build Automation Tool **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hector L. | Manager Consultant, Accounting, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 15, 2015 **What do you like best about CruiseControl?** At the time, I love the easy to setup and customize the tool. Including how I could use NAnt to automate my builds. **What do you dislike about CruiseControl?** At the time it was hard to integrate with other platforms sucks as SharePoint, Project Server. Also the integration with visual studio ide was missing functionality. However I am sure that the new version is much better. **Recommendations to others considering CruiseControl:** With all the Online automation systems like VSO and other, at this point it really hard for me to recommend CruiseControl to my clients since setting up a online visual studio account with a build server already and configure. Re-imaging or rebooting CruiseControl as an alternative will require either some really advance set of features/functionality like Mobile integration with productions like Teleriks Platform, Xamarin Tools Suites, XCode IDE integration and others. Note: I used to love Cruise Control back in the days when MSBUILD suck and NAnt was king, however today the out of the box VSO system have solve my initial interest with Cruise Control. I hope this helps you guys out. Cheers **What problems is CruiseControl solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automate code compiling, code style review and generate release-able bits. ### 20. CruiseControl.NET is a great product but not the simplest to use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dominic B. | Senior Software Developer, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 05, 2015 **What do you like best about CruiseControl?** I have used CruiseControl.NET at two companies that I have worked for and found it be an extremely powerful CI tool. Being an open source tool there is a level of technical expertise assumed when you install and configure it. Although the installation process installs and sets up the CC.Net service, there is level of manual configuration required to configure permissions. If you are technically capable then this won't be a problem, but if you lack IT skills then you may find this problematic. CC.NET gives you huge amounts of flexibility in setting up your CI projects. You can even configure CC.NET so that you can build CC.NET itself as just another CI project. Pretty cool. To create new CI projects you will need to manually edit the underlying XML files. If you are technically competent then this won't be a problem. You get a lot of bang for your buck withthe free version and I have never had to uswe the enterprise (paid) version. The free version can be used in heavy duty enterprise environments running multiple CI projects in large teams without any problem. **What do you dislike about CruiseControl?** Although never a problem for myself, CC.NET does require a level of technical competency to configure, both during the installation stage and in adding your CI projects. The UI and ease of use could be improved, but the level of flexibility that you get more than makes up for this. I would like to see a gated build added to CC.NET i.e. where broken builds are rejected. If you check in code that breaks the build then you need to take remedial steps to correct it. In other CI tools such broken builds are rejected before they get to that stage. The build is instead safely quarantined where it can be corrected before it breaks your build process. **Recommendations to others considering CruiseControl:** Being an open source tool the support is in the form of the open source community. That said however I always found answers to my questions. The product is aa mature one with a large, healthy community and user base. It is well documented and supported by the community. It helps if you are technically competent as it's not the easiest application to install and configure. However, you get an impressively flexible and powerful CI tool that scales very well to the enterprise. **What problems is CruiseControl solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used CC.NET for WCF, Xamarin.Android and ASP.NET projects to name a few. I have also integrated CC.NET with Subversion version control. I used Nant build scripts to give greater flexibility to the build scripts that were used in conjunction with the CI projects. You can use CC.NET fr both continuous integration as well as continuous deployment. I would recommend keeping your build CI projects separate form your deployment CI projects. ### 21. Smooth Sailing with CruiseControl **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Franklin A. | Senior Software Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 15, 2015 **What do you like best about CruiseControl?** I liked how the web dashboards allow me to see the builds and dig into the details. The client on the systray also is very handy in getting notifications and letting developers participate and get notified. **What do you dislike about CruiseControl?** There's little to dislike about CruiseControl and found myself championing it for some companies i was in. It helped alot in solving our continuous build requirements and solving our quality and deployment automation issues. **Recommendations to others considering CruiseControl:** In other companies, it has been more of a platform choice. In my current company, we have build engineers who favor older and more mature technology like jenkins. It's probably either due to its wide adoption and cost since its going to be running on a non windows box. **What problems is CruiseControl solving and how is that benefiting you?** For the most part it's about quality assurance, automated testing, and deployment. ### 22. I have more than 7 years experience with CruiseControl **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dawei W. | Senior .Net Consultant, Dairy, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 01, 2015 **What do you like best about CruiseControl?** 1. Automating Builds 2. Easy to config **What do you dislike about CruiseControl?** 1. document not very clear 2. sometimes It crash **What problems is CruiseControl solving and how is that benefiting you?** I automated all the builds so that I don't need to manually push build every time. ### 23. Used it for CI of all company builds **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Simon H. | Development Manager, Internet, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 04, 2015 **What do you like best about CruiseControl?** It was a very transparent tool. You could config all of its behaviour with XML files. It operated very quickly and efficently. **What do you dislike about CruiseControl?** At time of using, the UI was missing most admin features, and the progress of a build was almost unknown until a failure/success state was shown at end of build **Recommendations to others considering CruiseControl:** Last release was 2010. **What problems is CruiseControl solving and how is that benefiting you?** building versions of multiple .net solutions. ## CruiseControl Discussions - [Why doesn't Cruisecontrol have a well established GUI?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/26578-why-doesn-t-cruisecontrol-have-a-well-established-gui) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [View CruiseControl pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/cruisecontrol/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-25+18%3A46%3A27+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=431fcd28-795b-41a1-ae11-44d5de491487&secure%5Btoken%5D=e7ae533c3438550891a91b7415594dbc59e9dcc377536cd5c5c35b728226bff6&format=llm_user) ## CruiseControl Integrations - [Motive](https://www.g2.com/products/motive-technologies/reviews) - [Workday Talent Management](https://www.g2.com/products/workday-talent-management/reviews) ## CruiseControl Features **Functionality** - Integrations - Extensibility - Test Customization **Management** - Automation - Processes and Workflow - Reporting **Agentic AI - Continuous Integration** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance ## Top CruiseControl Alternatives - [Jenkins](https://www.g2.com/products/jenkins/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (550 reviews) - [GoCD](https://www.g2.com/products/gocd/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (24 reviews) - [GitLab](https://www.g2.com/products/gitlab/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (875 reviews)