We performed a comparison between IBM Rational Build Forge and Jenkins based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Build Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."All features are useful. Our customer doesn't have any complaints about the tool. It works pretty well for what they want and what they need to do."
"Very good reporting features."
"Jenkins optimizes the CI/CD process, enhances automation, and ensures efficiency and management of our build and deployment pipeline."
"We used it for all continuous integration parts, like automation testing, deployment, etc."
"GitHub linking is pretty good. We have a deployment application where we can run our tests and add various variables to be passed as assertions to those tests. This is pretty fluid with Jenkins."
"Configuration management: It is so easy to configure a Jenkins instance. Migrate configuration to a new environment just by copying XML files and setting up new nodes."
"Jenkins has a lot of built-in packages and tools."
"The initial setup is pretty simple."
"We really appreciate that this solution is plug and play. When coding in the version control system, this product completes the build process automatically."
"It is open source, flexible, scalable, and easy to use. It is easy to maintain for the administrator. It is a continuous integration tool, and its enterprise version is quite mature. It has good integrations and plug-ins. Azure DevOps can also be integrated with Jenkins."
"Not user friendly for the layman."
"Its logging can be improved. When something goes wrong, it is not always very easy to find the problem. It is hard to identify whether the problem is because of low memory in the server or some configuration in Rational Build Forge. The error logs are not very detailed, and they should provide more information. It should also have more integration with third-party tools. It would be great to have more integration with third-party tools."
"I would like to have an integrated dashboard on top of it and a better UX to look at. The dashboard could be better in terms of integration with other tools. We should be able to have a single pane of glass across all the tools that we use where Jenkins is the pipeline. This can be a very good upgrade to it."
"I think an integrated help button, that respected the context of the change/work in hand, would be a worthwhile improvement."
"Jenkins is an open-source solution, and people tend to stay on the same version for a long time. When you look for an answer on Google, you often find something that doesn't relate to your implementation. The plugins are both the aspect of Jenkins and also one of the worst because the plugins can have different versions, so it's hard to figure out how to solve the problems."
"There are some difficulties when we need to execute the DB script."
"We would like to see the addition of mobile simulators support to this solution, as part of its open-source offering. We currently have to carry out manual testing for these platforms."
"The solution could improve by having more advanced integrations."
"The support for the latest Java Runtime Environment should be improved."
"Jenkins relies on the old version of interface for configuration management. This needs improvement."
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IBM Rational Build Forge is ranked 19th in Build Automation while Jenkins is ranked 2nd in Build Automation with 83 reviews. IBM Rational Build Forge is rated 9.0, while Jenkins is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Rational Build Forge writes "Great reporting features and very functional". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Jenkins writes "A highly-scalable and stable solution that reduces deployment time and produces a significant return on investment". IBM Rational Build Forge is most compared with Bamboo and Digital.ai Release , whereas Jenkins is most compared with GitLab, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline, Tekton and Harness. See our IBM Rational Build Forge vs. Jenkins report.
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