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Rakesh Vardhan
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English
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Summary

TeamCity is a user-friendly and general-purpose CI/CD solution for developers and build engineers. It helps teams carry out all kinds of workflows and development practices within the SDLC life cycle. TeamCity comes in two different flavors: Professional and Enterprise, with varying features and pricing models. The tool provides various services for test automation, including self-hosted Continuous Integration, simultaneous parallel builds on different platforms and environment configurations, and customizable statistics for different aspects such as build duration, success rate, quality of the code, and custom metrics. TeamCity also supports development across all types of platforms, including Windows and Linux, macOS, and integrates with other tools that make up the SDLC toolchain. The tool has various advantages over other CI/CD solutions, including configuration as code, zero maintenance, pipeline optimization, scalability, test intelligence, templates, cloud integrations, real-time reporting, RESTful API, and professional technical support. TeamCity can be installed using a direct installation package, Docker Image, or TeamCity Cloud, a fully-managed CI/CD solution that automatically runs the builds and tests in the cloud servers. The tool provides various features for test automation, including triggers, parameters, failure conditions, build features, statistics, and DSL, which enable teams to create robust pipelines and leverage LambdaTest cloud grid solution for achieving excellent test automation benefits.