BuildStatus

BuildStatus is a term used to describe the current health of a software build within a development workflow. It indicates whether code changes successfully compile, pass tests, and produce artifacts, typically summarized as states such as success, failure, or in progress. Build status is a key signal for developers, testers, and release engineers, helping to decide when code can be merged or deployed.

In practice, build status is provided by continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) systems. These tools run automated jobs triggered by code changes, and report results back to teams through dashboards, notifications, and status badges inserted in project pages or repositories. Common representations include color-coded indicators (for example, green for success, red for failure) and a timeline of recent builds that highlights flaky tests or recurrent failures. Build status data can be integrated with version control platforms, issue trackers, and collaboration tools to streamline workflows and gating decisions for merges and deployments.

Products and services that implement BuildStatus typically offer features such as APIs to query current state and historical results, webhooks for real-time alerts, and embeddable badges for external sites. They may provide multi-project dashboards, build metrics (such as average build time and failure rate), and integrations with popular CI tools like Jenkins, CircleCI, Travis CI, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Bamboo. Security and access control, role management, and data retention policies are also commonly included to support team collaboration and compliance.

See also: continuous integration, continuous delivery, status badges, build pipelines.