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There are two kinds of great software development tools:

1. Those that do one thing exceptionally well.
2. Those that allow you to communicate better with your coworkers.

In some rare cases, you may find that the same tool lives in both categories.

This is a round-up of continuous integration tools, in no particular order.

• CruiseControl: Open source, Java-based. Focused on build.
• Cruise: Commercial. Build/test/deploy/release. Works for most platforms and languages. Free for small and open source teams.
• CruiseControl.NETOpen source rewrite of the original CruiseControl for Java.
• Hudson ...

It's an amazing thing when your development tools work together.

In the bad old days, we thought it was cool when the editor could work in concert with source control. It blew my mind when we first had source control with integrated bug tracking. (Wow, you can see the ...