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CruiseControl Pros and Cons: Top Advantages and Disadvantages

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Users experience frequent crashes and find the system could benefit from a more streamlined performance. (1 mentions)
Users report frequent software bugs causing daily crashes, indicating a need for a more streamlined experience. (1 mentions)

Top Cons or Disadvantages of CruiseControl

Verified User in Automotive
UA
Verified User in Automotive
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"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.
RT
Ricardo T.
Partner Technical Consultant in Azure IaaS & Identity
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"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.
JF
Johannes H. P. Skov F.
Toolchain Expert
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"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.

shilpa n.
SN
shilpa n.
Technical Project Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"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 Continuous integration tool. Continuous deployment and continuous delivery process part is missing in this tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aswin Kumar N.
AN
Aswin Kumar N.
Technical Consultant
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"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.
ST
Shubhendu T.
Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - I
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"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
UB
Verified User in Biotechnology
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"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.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
UI
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"A simple and easy integration tool"
3.5/5
What do you like best about CruiseControl?

It is a feature rich tool.

Good GUI

Easy to configure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CruiseControl?

Sometimes during integration can get a bit complex Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Telecommunications
CT
Verified User in Telecommunications
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Experience with cruise control"
4.5/5
What do you like best about CruiseControl?

Configurations are best, easy to integrate with other plugins Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CruiseControl?

When I used a way back . It was not integrated with gradle Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
AF
Verified User in Financial Services
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Cruise control recommend"
4/5
What do you like best about CruiseControl?

Simple and best tool. Maintaining the tool is simple Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CruiseControl?

Pipeline features need to include to use tool to configure the jobs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.