information extraction :: Pulse feature tour
Knowing that a build failed is not very useful unless you can find out why. Pulse can automatically search through build artifacts (including command output) to find useful information such as errors and warnings. Built in post-processors are provided for ant, make, maven, maven2 and Xcode. In addition, you can define your own post-processors using regular expressions allowing you to:
- specify multiple regular expressions: matched to different levels (e.g. error, warning).
- capture a configurable number of lines of text: to preserve the context associated with a regular expression match.
- exclude false positives: with additional expressions that are applied to an initial regular expression match.
Errors are obvious
Error and warning features appear directly in build summaries and so there no need to dig through build artifacts. A link is provided to jump directly to where the expression was matched in the artifact.
Decorated artifacts
Pulse highlights the line in the artifact file that was matched by a regular expression so they stand out.
