Build Automation Tools for Software Development

With the rate of new software design and development picking up, automated processes taking the centerstage by ensuring seamless and continuous integration. As a vital component of this emerging ecosystem, the build automation process enables automating tasks pertaining to software build, including, compilation of source code into binary code, packaging of the binary code and running the automated tests as the final procedure. These help in reducing down time, optimizing costs, and simplifying the overall development process.

As the importance of software build automation tools continues to grow, we have undertaken a comparative analysis of three solutions – Maven, Gradle, and Bazel – evaluating their efficiency and performance in terms of software build automation and deployment.

The present paper provides a complete overview of the selected build automation tools, relevant features, and capabilities of interest. In addition, it presents a broader overview on the future of the build automation tools ecosystem.