2010 SparkBuild Community Survey
1. Tell us a little about yourself
Thanks for participating in our first SparkBuild user survey! The feedback you provide here will help guide the direction of SparkBuild, and let us know how we can make it better for you. This survey should take less than 10 minutes.
1
. Which of these titles best characterizes your job?
Which of these titles best characterizes your job?
Software developer/engineer
Development lead
Project Manager
Release/Integration Engineer
QA Engineer
SCM Manager
IT Manager
Management/Executive
Press/Analyst/Marketing
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2
. With respect to software build/test tasks, which is the slowest/worst/most broken part of your job?
With respect to software build/test tasks, which is the slowest/worst/most broken part of your job?
Incremental builds take too long
Incremental builds fail
Full builds take too long
Building before checkin takes too long
Unit testing takes too long
Our build system is way too complicated
Our build system is unreliable/broken
I can't build on my machine
I can *only* build on my machine
Nothing, I don't run builds
Something else
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3
. What do you use SparkBuild for?
What do you use SparkBuild for?
Incremental builds
Full builds
Debugging broken builds
Projecting parallel build speedup
Understanding my makefiles
I tried SparkBuild, but it doesn't work for me
Nothing
Other (please specify)
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4
. Of these tasks, which ones do you perform frequently?
Of these tasks, which ones do you perform frequently?
Incremental build to compile/test my changes
Incremental build to validate before checkin
Full incremental after a code sync/update
Full clean build
Release/Integration build
None of these
5
. What are your primary build tools?
What are your primary build tools?
GNU Make
Microsoft NMAKE
Microsoft Visual Studio
MSBuild
ANT
Maven
SCons
JAM
Something we wrote internally
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