TeamCity 4.0 Roadmap

I’m very excited about the announced TeamCity 4.0 roadmap. The most interesting item is:

Ability to divide a single build procedure into several parts/builds that can be run on different agents both in sequence or in parallel. Ability to use the same set of sources in all of them

This is a really big deal. When build systems (either CI or the build tool itself) can properly know how to fork off independent tests, run them in parallel on remote machines, and then report back the results as if it was a single test run, then software development will truly be able to utilize the power of cloud computing technologies like EC2. I know OpenQA could use this right now - our current builds take hours to run!