The goal of this project is to provide a working Continuous Integration Server to a client in just a few minutes. Very often with tools like Cruise Control and NAnt it can take a few days to a few weeks for a client to produce a working server. CI Factory takes these products and integrates them for you. If you abide by the naming conventions and directory structure laid down by CI Factory it will just work. Similar to Ruby there is a focus on convention over configuration.

For more information on what it is and how it works see the introduction. If you are ready to get start using it download it and read the install document. You should be able to get a build server up and running in no time.

There are many packages that come with CI Factory. In the current Beta 0.8 there are 25 packages. Here are some:

• Alerts
• Analytics
• CSDiff
• DotNetUnitTest
• FinalBuilder
• InstallShield
• MSBuild
• MSTest
• NCover
• nDepend
• Simian
• Subversion
• Tracker
• Vault
• Versioning
• VisualSourceSafe
• VS.NETCompile
• VSTSVersionControl
• Wix
• XenocodePostbuild