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eDepend, First Automated Dependency Management Tool Ensures More Accurate and Faster Incremental Software Builds
Mountain View, CA, September 14, 2005 — Electric
Cloud, the software build infrastructure company, today enhanced
its build acceleration platform with a new automated dependency
tool, eDepend, that for the first time makes incremental software
builds 100% trustworthy. A breakthrough in software development,
Electric Cloud 2.3 featuring eDepend eliminates build errors resulting
from missing dependencies. For the first time, developers can confidently
run incremental builds, enabling more agile development with frequent
builds of executable code.
Software developers know that the fastest way to compile their
work is an incremental build. Unfortunately, they also know that
incremental builds can’t always be trusted to be correct.
Rather than regenerating each of potentially thousands of components
in the full application, developers prefer "incremental builds",
where the only components regenerated are those that were impacted
by their changes. Incremental builds require accurate "dependency"
information: if one component is changed, the dependency information
indicates which other components must be regenerated because they
depend on information in the modified component.
Historically, developers have been forced to track dependencies
manually, a time-consuming and error-prone task, or used freeware
tools, which do not gather complete dependency information. As a
result, incremental builds are often unreliable, failing to regenerate
all the components impacted by a change. Developers must then choose
between wasting time waiting for a full build, or "taking their
chances" on an incremental build that could misbehave in confusing
and time-consuming ways.
Electric Cloud’s eDepend is the first tool to capture complete
dependency information automatically and efficiently, with no human
intervention. As a result, Electric Cloud provides accurate and
reliable incremental builds and eliminates the need for frequent
full builds for small changes. With Electric Cloud developers can
now trust an incremental build to recompile correctly – every
time.
“We have helped companies across a broad spectrum of industries
eliminate the build bottleneck due to full software builds. With
Electric Cloud 2.3 we are now optimizing the incremental build process
for every developer,” said Mike Maciag, Electric Cloud CEO.
“Our customers benefit from technology that helps them achieve
faster time to market and improved quality in their products via
faster and more agile development.”
eDepend is part of the Electric Cloud software build solution that
is helping customers like Intuit, Qualcomm, and Force 10 Networks
to speed their build times, increase productivity, and enable greater
build frequency.
Electric Cloud 2.3 is for medium-to-large software development
teams that want to speed the software development process. Electric
Cloud 2.3 accelerates builds by as much 20 times by distributing
software builds in parallel across scalable clusters of inexpensive
servers.
Also new with the 2.3 release are enhancements to the Electric
Cloud platform that improve build scalability and visibility for
engineers and release teams:
- Electric Cloud Cluster Manager, a Web server that deploys and
reports on builds, can now scale to several hundred build agents
running dozens of simultaneous builds without affecting build
performance
- Electric Cloud 2.3 also includes tools for greater visibility
into the inputs and outputs of the build process, including automated
build log capture and cluster utilization reports
About Electric Cloud
Electric Cloud is a software build infrastructure company pioneering
technologies that shorten time-to-market, increase productivity,
and improve quality and customer satisfaction. Electric Cloud addresses
the build related frustrations, delays and resource scheduling nightmares
that every software development team endures. The company’s
products are in use by leading organizations in telecommunications,
automotive, software, networking and high-technology. Based in Mountain
View, California, Electric Cloud is funded by top-tier venture firms,
Mayfield, U.S. Venture Partners and RRE Ventures. For customer inquiries
please contact Electric Cloud at (650) 968-2950 or www.electric-cloud.com.
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