Anthillpro is a continuous integration server from Urbancode. It supports the software Java, Ruby, .Net and native technologies. The free 30 days trial vesion can be downloaded from here. You will get a flavor of Developer Pre-flight Builds in this new version. Pre-flight Builds let developers run a "test build" of their changes without making the changes to source. Pre-flight Builds integrates the developer's changes with a snapshot of the latest source code, and then run a build in the build environment, not on the developer's machine by the click of a button. In case of failure of pre-build, you, as a developer, will be notified immediately. Since, pre-flight build run on their own environment , you can access to the hardware and other resources which would have been inaccessible if you run them on your own machine. As a developer, you will also be able to run parallel test to reduce the actual test time with the help of this tool.
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