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BuildBuddy

The engineering acceleration platform built for Bazel

RANKED #4 · OPEN-SOURCE TEST AUTOMATION TOOLSLISTERSCORE 88.0

BuildBuddy is an engineering acceleration platform built for Bazel. It enables teams to build and test software significantly faster while reducing compute costs.

Best for	Enterprise engineering teams
Website	buildbuddy.io

Company facts

Social profiles

LinkedIn, X, GitHub

Facilities and features

Published pricing
Self-serve sign-up
API
Mobile app

What stands out

BuildBuddy provides massively parallel remote build execution with minimal configuration.

“Massively parallel builds with just a few lines of configuration and no maintenance burden.”BuildBuddy, own website

The product offers full visibility into builds through its results UI.

“The BuildBuddy Results Store and Results UI gives you full visibility into your builds so you can debug failing tests,”BuildBuddy, own website

Worth knowing

The product charges extra fees for cache transfer beyond the included allowance on team plans.

“$X / GB of cache transfer over 100 GB”BuildBuddy, own website

Strengths and trade-offs

BuildBuddy provides massively parallel remote build execution with minimal configuration.
The product offers full visibility into builds through its results UI.

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How BuildBuddy ranks

#8 in Best engineering analytics software

How the score is made up: Evidence on its own site 20; How complete its published information is 14; Fit to this ranking's criteria 40; Buying information on its own site 12.

“The engineering acceleration platform built for Bazel Build and test your software 10x faster while reducing compute costs with remote caching, remote execution, analytics, and more.”BuildBuddy, own website

#7 in Enterprise engineering analytics software

How the score is made up: Evidence on its own site 20; How complete its published information is 14; Fit to this ranking's criteria 40; Buying information on its own site 12.

“BuildBuddy captures build logs, test logs, invocation details, target information, and artifacts — so you can dive deep into and easily share the details of each and every build.”BuildBuddy, own website

“BuildBuddy is Enterprise Bazel BuildBuddy brings the power of Bazel to your organization, along with mission-critical features, enterprise-grade stability, and 24/7 expert support.”BuildBuddy, own website

#4 in Open-source test automation tools

How the score is made up: Evidence on its own site 20; How complete its published information is 16; Fit to this ranking's criteria 40; Buying information on its own site 12.

“The BuildBuddy Results Store and Results UI gives you full visibility into your builds so you can debug failing tests, view invocation details, and track down slow targets.”BuildBuddy, own website

“BuildBuddy is open-core and our features targeted at individual developers are available for free and MIT Licensed on GitHub .”BuildBuddy, own website

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Questions about BuildBuddy

Who is BuildBuddy best for?

BuildBuddy is best for enterprise engineering teams.

Where does BuildBuddy rank?

BuildBuddy is ranked #4 in Open-source test automation tools (Lister Score 88.0), #7 in Enterprise engineering analytics software (Lister Score 86.0) and #8 in Best engineering analytics software (Lister Score 86.0).

What are the best alternatives to BuildBuddy?

The closest alternatives on Lister are Perforce Zend (#1 in Open-source test automation tools), Cypress (#2 in Open-source test automation tools) and AppVeyor (#3 in Open-source test automation tools).

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