Cake is a cross-platform build-automation framework. It is a build-automation framework for compiling codes, running tests, copying files and folders, as well as running build-related tasks. Cake is open source with the source code hosted on GitHub.
Cake has the feature to make working with file system paths easy and has functionality for manipulating XML, starting processes, I/O operations, and parsing Visual Studio Solutions. Using Cake build-related activities can be automated using C# domain-specific language.
It employs a dependency-based programming model for build automation, through which tasks are declared alongside dependencies between the tasks. The dependency-based model is ideal and suitable for build automation because the majority of automation build steps are idempotent.
Cake is truly cross-platform; its NuGet package, Cake.CoreCLR...
