Probo

Industry| Web development
Founders| Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg, Jody Hamilton[1]
Headquarters| Philadelphia
Services| User Automated Testing
Parent| Zivtech[2]
Website| probo.ci

Probo is a user automated testing tool that provides continuous integration, workflow organization and quality assurance using the same tool for project managers and developers.[3][4][5][6]

Probo expands upon the automated testing functionality of many other CI tools by providing a quality assurance environment where users can manually review the look and feel of changes before committing them.

## History

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Probo was initially developed as a tool for internal use by its parent company, Zivtech, to improve upon the offerings of other CI tools.[7][3] Once the founders realized that it filled a gap in the industry, they expanded it into a separate offering as a better way to automate the process, involve clients and project managers in the earliest stages, and reduce the cycle of testing and approval.[3]

Probo (by definition: demonstrate, test, approve)[8] is an open source tool that has been built to work with Drupal,[9] integrates into GitHub and posts statuses of the builds to GitHub PR. The tool itself is written in Node.js and powered by Docker.[4][6][10]

Probo was the first CI tool to provide a quality assurance environment where users can manually review their changes.

## Other frameworks

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Based on the original Jenkins for Java, there are now similar tools for other programming frameworks such as:

* Buildbot — a Python system to automate the compile/test cycle to validate code changes.
* Tox — an automation tool providing packaging, testing and deployment of Python software.
* Travis-CI — a distributed CI server which builds tests for open source projects for free.
* Django-Jenkins — Django (Python) Web Framework integration with Jenkins.[11]

See Continuous Integration for more.

## See also

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* Continuous integration software

## References

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1. ^ "The 2015 BIO International Convention is coming to Philadelphia". www.delcotimes.com. Retrieved 2015-11-26.
2. ^ "Zivtech a Top System Integrator". Above Average Jane. 2015-04-29. Retrieved 2015-11-26.
3. ^ a b c "About Us | Demonstrate. Test. Approve". probo.ci. Retrieved 2015-11-26.
4. ^ a b "Zivtech: Introducing Probo.CI | UNI Webtools: Resources for Web Developers". www.uni.edu. Retrieved 2015-11-26.
5. ^ "Zivtech: Probo.ci Demos using Atlassian Bitbucket Server (fka Stash) & Github | Techgig". www.techgig.com. Retrieved 2015-11-26.
6. ^ a b "Zivtech: Probo.ci Demos using Atlassian Bitbucket Server (fka Stash) & Github | Techgig". www.techgig.com. Retrieved 2015-11-26.
7. ^ "Philadelphia 100: No. 20 | Zivtech - Philadelphia Business Journal". Philadelphia Business Journal. Bizjournals. Retrieved 2015-11-26.
8. ^ "Latin Word Study Tool". www.perseus.tufts.edu. Retrieved 2015-12-02.
9. ^ "Drupal NYC". Retrieved 2015-11-26.
10. ^ Drupal Association. "DrupalCon Barcelona 2015: Introducing Probo.CI".
11. ^ django-jenkins