Continuous integration/testing tools

eyepopslikeamosquito has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

We're looking at introducing continuous builds/smoke tests at work across a number of platforms (mainly Windows and Unix), building a number of different languages (mainly C++). A quick search uncovered the list below. Anyone got any experience or recommendations?

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Re: Continuous integration/testing tools by perrin (Chancellor) on Jun 08, 2006 at 04:08 UTC
I may be biased because Smolder was written by one of my co-workers, but I think it's really impressive. I can't see a good reason to use anything else for a perl-based project.	[reply]
Re: Continuous integration/testing tools by florg (Friar) on Jun 08, 2006 at 07:13 UTC
I've recently looked at DamageControl (URL in original post is outdated) for a Ruby project. Sadly, it's pretty unusable in my experience. There's a bug that prevents it from even running on linux at the moment. Maybe I just got unlucky.. Incidentally there's another continuous integration tool for Ruby on Rails/Rake without many bells and whistles that worked for me: CIA florg	[reply]