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Top Reasons to upgrade to v3
1. Take advantage of concurrent execution of operations
In Automated Build Studio 3, you can organize concurrent execution of macro operations and thus perform different tasks at the same time. This can greatly reduce the macro execution time, especially on computers with more than one CPU. More...
2. Control remote builds from your macros
Using the operations of a new Remote Macro Execution category, you can easily start, pause and stop macro runs on remote computers directly from your macro. No third-party tool is needed to control macros on remote computers.
3. Debug macros with ease
Automated Build Studio now includes a macro debugger that supports breakpoints, stepping over operations, watches, expression evaluation and other debugging features. Using the macro debugger you can easily trace errors in your macros and fix them. More...
4. Use charts to analyze macro run statistics
Version 3 collects information on macro runs performed on your computer or other computers within your network, and displays this information in a graphical form within the new Charts panel. You can analyze the ratio of successful and failed runs, the duration of macro runs and the frequency of macro runs over a desired period of time (day, week, month or other). You can print charts or even copy the charts data to another computer. You can also view the charts through the Automated Build Studio Web Interface. More...
5. Sign and verify your applications with Microsoft Authenticode technology
A new category - Authenticode - contains 11 operations that let you sign and verify applications signed with Microsoft Authenticode technology.
6. Use new Try, Catch and Finally operations to handle errors
The new Try, Catch and Finally operations of the
Standard category let you implement a structured exception
handling mechanism in your macros that is similar to the try...catch...finally
statements in programming languages such as C++ or Java.
7. Use new operations to control macro execution flow better
The Standard category includes new operations that provide better control over the macro flow.
Using the new Switch and Case operations, you can
implement multi-conditional execution of operations in your macros,
similar to switch and case statements of
programming languages such as C++ or Java.
The new Initialization and Finalization operations serve as a group for other operations that the macro will perform at the beginning and at the end of the run, respectively.
8. Specify several masks in file operations
In version 3, the following operations that deal with files have been improved. Now they support several file masks in operation properties:
- Copy File(s), Delete File(s), File Enumerator, Move File(s);
- Download File From FTP, FTP File Enumerator, Upload File to FTP;
- Pack Files With WinRar, Pack Files With Zip.
9. Use new operations to automate tasks with popular products
In addition to the abovementioned operations, Automated Build Studio 3 includes new operations that provide support for the following products:
- Microsoft ASP.NET compiler
- GNU CC compiler
- Oracle Database Client
- Microsoft ILMerge
- InstallShield Universal
- WiX Compiler (candle)
- WiX Decompiler (dark)
- WiX Linker (light)
- Microsoft XCopy
- CodeHealer by SOCK Software
- Aivosto Project Analyzer
- RoboHelp
- An earlier version of Help & Manual
- AutomatedQA AQtime 5
- AutomatedQA TestComplete 5
- AutomatedQA TestExecute 5
10. Take sources from Visual SourceSafe faster
Operations of the Microsoft Visual SourceSafe category have been improved. Now the Get Latest Version From VSS, Get File(s) by Label From VSS and Get File(s) by Label From VSS operations work faster, so it takes less time to take your project sources from SourceSafe.