Automate your CI/CD workflow
An automation server is meant to automate building, testing, and deploying tasks.
It helps implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery with your PowerBuilder applications. There are numerous automation servers like Jenkins, GitLab, AzureDevops, AWS Code Commit.
Creating a Continuous Integration Workflow (or Pipeline) with an automation server any requires configuring several consecutive jobs/tasks. It will trigger each task as specified - for instance when a new build is available - and provide feedback about its execution.
In some cases, a plugin is available to simplify the integration/configuration of a given tool.
A job can fetch the PowerBuilder code and the PBLs from GIT or SVN repositories.
Then, using PBAutoBuild, the automation server can generate a PowerBuilder or PowerServer build.
If you are using PowerBuilder 2019 or 2017, please refer to this article to learn how to use the previous tool "PowerBuilder Compiler".
Tools & Resources:
Your automation server can automate code inspections, either by calling Visual Expert in command line, or by using a Visual Expert plugin if you're using Jenkins.
You can automate the tests of your PowerBuilder and PowerServer apps, either by calling AscentialTest in command line, or by using the AscentialTest Jenkins plugin.