Bazel Automation Framework
An Bazel Automation Framework is a software object creation automation framework.
- Context:
- It can be a Build Automation Framework.
- It can be a Test Automation Framework.
- It can be a Multi-Language Framework.
- It can support Dependency Tracking.
- It can have Bazel Commands, such as
bazel build,bazel test. - …
- Example(s):
- Bazel v3.5.0 (~2020-09-02) [1]
- …
- Bazel v1.1.0 (~2019-10-21) [2]
- …
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Starlark DSL, Project Object Model, Unit Testing, Convention Over Configuration, Apache Ant, Jenkins System, Build Automation, Java Programming Language, Apache Ant.
References
2021
- (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazel_(software) Retrieved:2021-2-4.
- Bazel is a free software tool that allows for the automation of building and testing of software. The company Google uses the build tool Blaze internally and released an open-sourced part of the Blaze tool as Bazel, named as an anagram of Blaze. Bazel was first released in March 2015 and achieved beta status by September 2015.
Similar to build tools like Make, Apache Ant, or Apache Maven, Bazel builds software applications from source code using a set of rules. Rules and macros are created in the Starlark language (previously called Skylark ), a dialect of Python. There are built-in rules for building software written in the programming languages of Java, C, C++, Go, Python, Objective-C and Bourne shell scripts. Bazel can produce software application packages suitable for deployment for the Android and iOS operating systems.
In designing Bazel, emphasis has been placed on build speed, correctness, and reproducibility. The tool uses parallelization to speed up parts of the build process. It includes a Bazel Query language that can be used to analyze build dependencies in complex build graphs.
- Bazel is a free software tool that allows for the automation of building and testing of software. The company Google uses the build tool Blaze internally and released an open-sourced part of the Blaze tool as Bazel, named as an anagram of Blaze. Bazel was first released in March 2015 and achieved beta status by September 2015.
2020
- https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel
- QUOTE: Build and test software of any size, quickly and reliably.
- Speed up your builds and tests: Bazel rebuilds only what is necessary. With advanced local and distributed caching, optimized dependency analysis and parallel execution, you get fast and incremental builds.
- One tool, multiple languages: Build and test Java, C++, Android, iOS, Go, and a wide variety of other language platforms. Bazel runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
- Scalable: Bazel helps you scale your organization, codebase, and continuous integration solution. It handles codebases of any size, in multiple repositories or a huge monorepo.
- Extensible to your needs: Easily add support for new languages and platforms with Bazel's familiar extension language. Share and re-use language rules written by the growing Bazel community.
- QUOTE: Build and test software of any size, quickly and reliably.