SuccessStories
There are Buildbots installed all over the world. If you've installed one, please add it to this list. The icons in the following table provide links to both the buildbot's web UI and each project's home page.
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link to the buildbot >0.9 main web page |
| link to the buildbot <=0.8.13 main status page | |
| 🏠 | link to the project's home page |
| name | UI | 🏠 | comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buildbot | |
🏠 | The "metabuildbot" is a buildbot which runs all of the buildbot's own unit tests. |
| Python | |
🏠 | Python, the language that the Buildbot is written in, has been successfully running buildbot since 2006 to test the reference interpreter (CPython) on a variety of platforms. Guido van Rossum mentioned it in his blog, and again in his keynote at PyCon2006. |
| WebKit | |
🏠 | WebKit is an open source web browser engine that uses buildbot for continuous build and testing. |
| LLVM | |
🏠 | The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies. |
| XEmacs | |
🏠 | XEmacs is a highly customizable open source text editor and application development system. The buildbot is used for smoke testing the beta development. |
| Mercurial | 🏠 | Mercurial is a free, distributed source control management tool. It efficiently handles projects of any size and offers an easy and intuitive interface. | |
| Subversion | 🏠 | The Subversion revision control system is using a Buildbot for automated tests across multiple platforms. Buildbot has had SVN support since the 0.4.3 release in early 2004. | |
| Twisted | 🏠 | The original publically-visible Buildbot installation runs the Twisted unit test suite. | |
| ReactOS | |
🏠 | Aleksey Bragin has set up a buildbot for the ReactOS project, to automate the creation of installation CD images. This project is dedicated to creating a GPLed windows-compatible operating system from the ground up. |
| NUT | 🏠 | The Network UPS Tools project (NUT) uses Buildbot for testing Git commits. | |
| Octopus | |
🏠 | Octopus (a quantum-mechanical simulator) is using a Buildbot, and that it is integrated into their Trac instance. |
| ScummVM | |
🏠 | ScummVM is a re-implementation of the engines of many classic graphical adventure games such as Monkey Island or Space Quest. Buildbot is used to compile ScummVM trunk & the most current release branch for a wide variety of target systems, including Linux (Intel, 32bit and 64bit), Mac OS X (Intel and PowerPC), Windows (even version 9x!), Dreamcast, iPhone and many more. This helps us discover regressions on individual ports very quickly, and gives users access to bleeding edge test binaries. |
| MariaDB | |
🏠 | MariaDB is a branch/fork of the MySQL database server. Buildbot is used to test all pushes across a number of branches and platforms. Buildbot is also used to build and test binary packages for around 20 different platforms. |
| Tahoe-LAFS | 🏠 | Tahoe-LAFS is a secure decentralized storage system. Buildbot is used to test all commits on a number of platforms, as well as to build and test binary packages. | |
| IcedTea | |
🏠 | A fully free Java Runtime and Development Environment. Build upon OpenJDK extended with developer, user and web browser tools. Buildbot watches all commits and has workers for quick and full builds. |
| Evergreen | 🏠 | The software for libraries that helps people find library materials, and helps libraries manage, catalog, and circulate those materials. Buildbot watches all commits to its OpenSRF and Evergreen repositories. | |
| FreedroidRPG | |
🏠 | Open source isometric role playing game |
| Sage | |
🏠 | Sage is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL. It combines the power of many existing open-source packages into a common Python-based interface. |
| VectorLinux | |
🏠 | VectorLinux is a small, fast intel based linux distro. Buildbot is used to manage the binary packaging of supported applications. |
| SDL | |
🏠 | Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library |
| ORX | 🏠 | ORX is an open source portable 2.5D game engine that currently runs on Windows, Linux, OS X, iOS and Android. | |
| MacPorts | 🏠 | The MacPorts Project is an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X operating system. http://guide.macports.org/#development.buildbot | |
| Open Lighting Project | 🏠 | The Open Lighting Project is a multi-faceted effort aimed at accelerating the adoption of new, standardized control protocols, while also providing high quality, reliable, open software for the lighting industry. | |
| Blender | |
🏠 | Blender is a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software product used for creating animated films, visual effects, art, 3D printed models, interactive 3D applications and video games. |
| OpenAFS | |
🏠 | AFS is a distributed filesystem product, pioneered at Carnegie Mellon University and supported and developed as a product by Transarc Corporation (now IBM Pittsburgh Labs). |
| Launchpad | 🏠 | Launchpad is an open source suite of tools that help people and teams to work together on software projects. | |
| Gentoo Linux | |
🏠 | Gentoo kernel CI is a autonomous kernel building and testing system based on buildbot specifically tailored for Gentoo. |
| GNU Debugger (GDB) | |
🏠 | GDB is the GNU Project Debugger |
| GNU Radio | |
🏠 | GNU Radio is a digital signal processing framework with focus on Software Defined Radios. |
| Samsung SoC Linux | |
🏠 | Samsung Exynos SoC Linux kernel maintainer (Krzysztof Kozlowski) is using Buildbot for managing builds and boot tests of the Linux on Samsung-based boards |
| Yocto Project | |
🏠 | The Yocto Project is an open source project aiming to make the lives of people building highly customized (or embedded) Linux systems easier, based on the !OpenEmbedded build system architecture |
| Flathub | |
🏠 | Flathub aims to be the place to get and distribute apps for Linux. It is powered by Flatpak which allows Flathub apps to run on almost any Linux distributions |
| CPAchecker | |
🏠 | CPAchecker is a tool for configurable software verification |
| ZFS on Linux | 🏠 | Native ZFS port for Linux | |
| Opencast | |
🏠 | Opencast is a video content management and presentation system |
| LinuxCNC | |
🏠 | LinuxCNC controls CNC machines |
| OpenWRT | |
🏠 | The OpenWrt Project is a Linux operating system targeting embedded devices |
| ABINIT | |
🏠 | ABINIT (ab initio calculation) is a free software package ( Fortran95 ) for physicists, whose main program allows one to find the total energy, charge density and electronic structure of systems made of electrons and nuclei (molecules and periodic solids) within Density Functional Theory (DFT), using pseudopotentials and a planewave basis. Buildbot is used to compile, launch and analyze the automatic tests ( ~800) of ABINIT on the ETSF test farm (26 builders) |
| Void Linux | |
🏠 | Void Linux is a general-purpose Linux distribution. Buildbot is used to automatically build packages for the distro's users. |
These are buildbot installations that are allegedly used internally by organisations.
| name | UI | 🏠 | comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nunatek | Christopher Armstrong (radix) has set up a Buildbot to do web testing (using MaxQ) for one of his clients, as well as internally at Nunatak to run python unit tests. | ||
| ? | 'nbm' reports that “the first-or-second-largest media company in South Africa uses buildbot”, testing PHP code. | ||
| ILM | Dave Peticolas at Industrial Light & Magic is using a Buildbot internally to test “lots of python code” | ||
| Netbox Blue | Stephen Thorne says that his company, Netbox Blue, uses a buildbot to build and test their network security appliance. | ||
| OpenID | 🏠 | Kevin Turner reports that JanRain, Inc. is using a buildbot for their multi-language OpenID libraries. | |
| CodeSourcery | 🏠 | Stefan Seefeld is using a buildbot for internal builds and tests at his company. | |
| Ebn | 🏠 | Geeklog free project has a buildbot for the diagnostic tools they use to test data processing | |
| SnapLogic | 🏠 | SnapLogic is an open-source solution that transforms data into services so that data can be easily integrated across applications, databases and networks. They use Buildbot for continuous, cross-platform testing of their server, client, and installer. | |
| Amanda | 🏠 | The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver | |
| Orzone | 🏠 | Orzone AB - improves medical outcome through training and planning applications | |
| Dr.Web | 🏠 | uses Buildbot-based continous integration system for *NIX packages. Over 1000 builders with django-based webUI and builders store | |
| Auto Insurance Web | 🏠 | Auto Insurance Web is a data aggregator and distribution network. Buildbot is used to test a variety of development scenarios and configurations for optimal performance, within a heterogeneous network environment. | |
| OpenVPN | 🏠 | OpenVPN is a robust and highly flexible tunneling application that uses the OpenSSL library to securely tunnel IP networks over a single TCP/UDP port. OpenVPN project uses Buildbot to spot build and automatically package development code on various Linux and *BSD operating systems. | |
| TRData | 🏠 | Bloomberg for emerging markets. | |
| Ubisoft Vancouver | 🏠 | Made in BuildBot : MotionSports Adrenaline | |
| BerkeleyGW | 🏠 | BerkeleyGW is a set of computer codes that calculates the quasiparticle properties and the optical responses of a large variety of materials from bulk periodic crystals to nanostructures such as slabs, wires and molecules. We have found BuildBot invaluable in developing and validating our code, and ensuring portability. We run on two dedicated machines, as well as parallel jobs on a large cluster with a scheduler. | |
| Cray | 🏠 | Cray Inc. uses Buildbot to build and test its Programming Environment libraries. | |
| op5 Ab | 🏠 | op5 Monitor is a software product for Network monitoring and management based on the Open Source Project Nagios, and is further developed and supported by op5 AB. | |
| Imagination Technologies | 🏠 | The Imagination Technologies Kernel team is using buildbot, with an army of 10 workers managing nearly 200 builders, to test numerous MIPS configurations in public and internal Linux kernel git trees. | |
| Prove & Run | 🏠 | Prove & Run uses buildbot to build, test, and internally distribute most of its products; be it Eclipse RCP plugins or its secure microkernel and its applications. | |
| PLaSK | 🏠 | PLaSK (Photonic Laser Simulation Kit) is a comprehensive tool for numerical analysis of broad range of physical phenomena in photonic devices. | |
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Those bots were once up and running, and are not available, we don't know if they still use buildbot, or if they changed URL
| name | UI | 🏠 | comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kitware | |
🏠 | Kitware uses Buildbot to drive testing and packaging for several of its open source projects including VTK, ParaView, CMB, TomViz, and many more. (Still used, url now private) |
| libc11 | |
🏠 | libc11 is a public domain implementation of the C11 (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) standard library. We use Buildbot to validate cross-platform support, currently maintaining workers for the Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, and Mac OS X platforms and the x86 and ARM architectures. |
| Machinekit | |
🏠 | The Machinekit Machine Controller: Move. Control. Things. |
| FiPy | |
🏠 | FiPy is an object oriented, partial differential equation (PDE) solver, written in Python, based on a standard finite volume (FV) approach. |
| OpDemand | |
🏠 | We love twisted python, so buildbot was the first choice for building, testing, and packaging our system for managing cloud infrastructure. OpDemand's software itself was used to spawn the buildmaster and workers in the AWS cloud that test OpDemand, and with a free OpDemand account you can deploy a complete, running buildbot platform with just a few mouse clicks. |
| Synergy | |
🏠 | Synergy is FOSS that lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, without special hardware. All you need is a LAN connection. It's intended for users with multiple computers, where each system uses its own display. |
| Task Coach | |
🏠 | Task Coach is a simple open source todo manager to manage personal tasks and todo lists. We use a buildbot to run various tests and provide bleeding-edge packages for several operating systems. |
| UltraStar Deluxe | |
🏠 | BuildBot to check the code of UltraStarDeluxe, a truely cross-platform singing game for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and FreeBSD written in Delphi/FreePascal. On all platforms the tests include download from the svn repository, compiling and linking the sources. Where appropriate an application is built. On some platforms disk images or distribution packages are created. Some have upload to a nightly snapshot server. |
| SOG | |
🏠 | SOG is a coupled biology and physics model of deep estuaries such as the Strait of Georgia, and Rivers Inlet. It was developed by Dr. Susan Allen's Mesoscale Dynamics of Ocean and Atmosphere group in the Department of Earth & Ocean Sciences at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. SOG is being used as part of the STRATOGEM and Rivers Inlet projects. Buildbot does on-commit, nightly, and weekly regression tests on the code, and helps to maintain the compatibility of the codebase with the 2 different FORTRAN compilers used by the researchers and developers. |
| Topographica | |
🏠 | Topographica, a software package for modeling of neural maps, is automatically built and tested on multiple platforms using Buildbot. |
| Auger Observatory | |
🏠 | Tom Paul reports that a buildbot is in use at the Pierre Auger Observatory to test the data processing and analysis software in use there. "The observatory is designed to unveil the origins and composition of the highest energy cosmic rays, and is operated by a collaboration of about 300 physicists (running code on quite a few different platforms)". |
| ASCEND | |
🏠 | John Pye writes to say that the ASCEND modelling environment project is using a Buildbot. |
| ETLab | 🏠 | Mark Dillavou reports that he's installed a Buildbot in the Enabling Technology Laboratory at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, to maintain their visualization and virtual-environment projects. | |
| PBP | 🏠 | Cory Dodt has created a BuildStep which allows Buildbots to drive tests. PBP is a web testing tool that (as I understand it) behaves as an HTTP client and makes sure a web application responds to queries correctly. With this BuildStep, you can incorporate PBP tests into your compile/build/test cycle. | |
| Monotone | 🏠 | The Monotone version control system is using a buildbot to run unit tests. Their buildbot has been extended to handle Monotone's somewhat-unique VC scheme by Nathaniel Smith, and hopefully the patches will be merged into the main release soon. | |
| FTEQW | 🏠 | crossplatform Quakeworld port with both opengl & directx9 renderers that supports open sourced id tech (quake1, quake2, quake3, hexen2 etc). Running on Linux, Morphos (PPC), Mac OS X & Windows | |
| Free Geek | The Free Geek project has a buildbot for the diagnostic tools they use to test donated hardware. | ||
| arkadas | 🏠 | The Mono project has a buildbot running to test the HEAD and release branches of the main project on several architectures. | |
| Logicalware | 🏠 | Kevin Campbell reports that his company is using a buildbot to help them provide commercial support of a product over a large range of architectures. | |
| Xenomai | 🏠 | Niklaus Giger has set up a buildbot for the Xenomai project. | |
| Aqsis | 🏠 | Paul Gregory has set up a buildbot for the Aqsis rendering project | |
| Enfold Systems | 🏠 | Sidnei da Silva reports that his company has a buildbot to test and drive automated builds. One of his workers is installed as a Windows Service (using py2exe). | |
| Cheesecake | 🏠 | Michal Kwiatkowski reports that the pycheesecake project is using a buildbot to run all their functional and unit tests. This project ranks many python packages according to such quality metrics like pylint scores, percentage of documented methods, and downloadability. | |
| Armagetron Advanced | 🏠 | Dave Fancella points us to a Buildbot used to build Mac OS X and Linux images (with windows in the works) for their "Tron clone in 3D", a light-cycles game with advanced AI, network play, and 3-D graphics. | |
| !OpenOffice | 🏠 | The well-known !OpenOffice suite is using a buildbot for cross-platform testing. They have a [http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Buildbot page describing how they use it] and some of their plans for the future. | |
| Jython | 🏠 | Jython uses a buildbot to run their tests on the JVM on several platforms and to make nightly builds | |
| OpenSG | 🏠 | The OpenSG project ("a portable scenegraph system to create realtime graphics programs") has managed to get a buildbot waterfall display embedded inside a page of their Trac instance.. very cool. | |
| !OpenPlans | 🏠 | [http://www.openplans.org The Open Planning] is building tools to connect people online to affect real world change. They use Buildbot to test their build process of zope+plone customizations and run their tests. | |
| NuFW | 🏠 | [http://nufw.org/ NuFW], the authenticating firewall by [http://inl.fr/ INL] runs buildbot on its SVN to perform functional tests on each modification. | |
| sipXecs | 🏠 | Open Source SIP PBX for Linux uses buildbot to run unit tests and perform distribution builds on multiple Linux distributions. | |
| Kusu | 🏠 | Project Kusu is the open source base for the next generation of Platform Open Cluster Stack 5 (OCS). | |
| ES4 Reference Implementation | 🏠 | ECMA-262 Edition 4 is the next-generation version of ECMAScript being developed currently by the ECMA TG1 working group. | |
| darcs | 🏠 | darcs is a uniquely flexible revision control tool | |
| PyAMF | 🏠 | [http://pyamf.org PyAMF] provides Action Message Format (AMF) support for Python that is compatible with the Flash Player. It includes integration with Python web frameworks like Django, Pylons, Twisted, and more. | |
| Parrot | 🏠 | Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently compile and execute bytecode for dynamic languages. | |
| EDE | 🏠 | EDE desktop project is running a buildbot to compile EDE and run unit tests on various OS-es and compilers. | |
| Clementine | 🏠 | Music player based on GStreamer and Amarok 1.4, uses buildbot to run unit tests and create binaries for Windows and Linux. | |
| Songbird | 🏠 | Take your music with you, share playlists with friends, watch video, find out when favorite bands play your town, and discover new tracks by hot new artists. | |
| Paintown | 🏠 | Paintown is a 2-d engine for fighting games. If you are looking for a side-scrolling, action packed game like you used to play or if you are looking for an extensible engine to write your own game, look no further. | |
| Reu2 | 🏠 | Reu2 is a crossplatform C++ library of reusable utility modules, built over Boost>=1.38. Workers: Ubuntu Lucid 32-bit, Win7 64-bit | |
| OpenERP | 🏠 | OpenERP produces open source business applications: Enterprise Management made Easy and Powerful | |
| NA61/SHINE | 🏠 | NA61/SHINE is a high-energy physics experiment at [http://www.cern.ch CERN]. We use buildbot to test the data analysis software. | |
| Gnash | |
🏠 | The GNU SWF Player. |
| wxWidgets | 🏠 | wxWidgets cross-platform GUI toolkit runs buildbot to ensure it compiles and its unit tests run on different platforms/compilers/OS versions. | |
| Psycle | 🏠 | Psycle is an open source modular music creation studio, combining a music tracker interface (like FastTracker 2 or Impulse Tracker) with plugin modularity. It supports its own plugin API, the VST2 plugin standard, and a tracker style sampler playback. | |
| Wireshark | 🏠 | Ulf Lamping reports that the Wireshark project, a well-known packet sniffer, uses a buildbot for their cross-platform compatibility testing. (Wireshark used to be known as Ethereal) |