Build automation

An automated build helps us create an application build using build automation tools such as Gradle, Apache Ant, and Apache Maven.

An automated build process includes activities such as compiling source code into class files or binary files, providing references to third-party library files, providing the path of configuration files, packaging class files or binary files into package files, executing automated test cases, deploying package files on local or remote machines, and reducing manual effort in creating the package file.