By installing a Cruise Agent on your test servers, you can have Cruise remote control them for you. A Cruise Agent requires zero configuration – simply key in the IP address of the Cruise Server, and it does everything else for you, including configuring itself and checking any necessary code out of source control. Cruise tells you what each of your agents is up to, and if it has lost contact with any of them. If agents go missing during a build, Cruise transparently re-assigns builds to another agent.
Manage your testing platform
Create jobs for each platform within each testing stage. Given enough build agents, Cruise can run all jobs within a specified stage simultaneously, which means your multi-platform testing can be done in a snap. If any of the jobs fails, the whole stage fails, and the results are correlated so you can see at a glance in which environments your new changes fail.
You can use the fact that Cruise runs jobs in parallel to make long running test suites go faster. Simply split your long running test suite into multiple suites and create jobs for each one. Cruise will run all builds within a given stage in parallel given enough agents, so you can leverage Cruise's zero configuration build grid to substantially reduce the time it takes to run tests.
