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Cradiator is a Windows (WPF) app that displays a summary of Continuous Integration (CI) project statuses. It is basically an Information Radiator for CI. Cradiator currently supports Cruise Control (Java, .Net, Ruby) and Team City (using our Cradiator TeamCity plugin)

The source code for Cradiator is now being hosted on GitHub

Cradiator is most suited to display on a dedicated monitor where it is visible to developers working on a project.
There are various screen layouts or skins to choose from:

Stack Skin

CradiatorStackSkin .png
Also showing is a countdown of how many seconds to go before refreshing (shown here as "00:03") - this can be switched off.

Grid Skin

CradiatorGridSkin.png

StackPhoto Skin

Shows an image alongside a broken project (based on the breaker's username). Only 1 breaker is shown.
CradiatorStackPhotoSkin.png

Color Chart

Color Status
Green Success/Normal
Red Failure/Exception/Error
Yellow Building
White Unknown


Cradiator is a continuation (or "fork") of Ben Carey's BigVisibleCruise at GoogleCode.
NB all the important features below were added to Cradiator and are not found in BigVisibleCruise. The conversion to Cradiator also included a significant refactoring - extreme separation of concerns (SRP), reduction of assemblies, C#3 features etc

Important Features

  • Shows breakers of a build (if broken) or the volunteer to fix the build (for CCNet requires 1.4.3 or greater)
  • New skin (StackPhoto)
  • Filter by Category (in addition to Project Name)
  • Show progress/status when making connection to Cruise server (configurable)
  • Color gradients for visual appeal
  • Wav files can be played on specific events (currently 'NewlyBrokenBuild' and 'NewlyFixedBuild')
  • Speech synthesis - Cradiator says which build is broken (handy for those with sore necks who can't check the big screen) - uses SAPI support on Windows. The text to say and the voice itself is configurable - so you can Download your own voices
  • Show a Countdown of how many seconds to go before refreshing status
  • Added a Debug-mode facility to allow developers to replace the Cruise Web Service XML with their own XML - handy for UI testing/experimentation and screenshot/demos
  • Configuration changes:
  • An app restart is not required for settings to take effect
  • Config file can even be edited while the app is running (ie is 'watched' for changes and applied immediately or at the next refresh interval)
  • Settings dialog (for people with text-editor phobias)
  • Logging (using log4net) - can be configured via app.config
  • MultiUrl - Combine multiple projects or servers into one screen (view) by specifying multiple URLs (space-delimited)
  • MultiView - Is your monitor not big enough to display all your projects? Split your projects between separate "views". A view is the combination of URL, Skin and project filters. When more than 1 view is set, each one is shown on a rotation cycle every poll interval (default 30 seconds)
    • For example, if you have 12 projects, you can set 2 views which show only 6 each

Cradiator requires .Net3.5 installed (currently no check for this in the installer)

Last edited Nov 21 2010 at 11:12 AM by PandaWood, version 96