Read the second part of the series here.

How quick and easy it to get started?

Team City is installed using windows installer. It needs java to be installed on the machine. Thus a web dashboard is used to configure a new build. The entire configuration is done by web dashboard. It has simple step by step configuration. It has both free and commercial version. For small teams and few projects free version works fine. Overall all the setup and configuration is easy.

Which source control system can be integrated out of the box?

Source Control Name	Team City
AccuRev	Yes
Alienbrain	No
BitKeeper	No
CA Software Change Manager	No
ClearCase	Yes
CMVC	No
CVS	Yes
Darcs	No
Dimensions	No
Git	Yes
GNU arch	No
GNU Bazaar	No
Integrity	No
Mercurial	Yes
Perforce	Yes
Plastic	No
PVCS	No
Sourceanywhere	No
StarTeam	Yes
Subversion	Yes
Surround	No
Synergy	No
Team Concert	No
Team Foundation Server	Yes
Vault	Yes
Visual SourceSafe	Yes
Others

What about Test coverage?

Team City has out of the box configuration with MSTest, Nunit Tests. Configurations is done using web dashboard. The configuration is straight forward.

What is the medium of build result notification?

There is multiple notifications configuration in Team City. Email is one of them. It also has a system tray notification which gives an easy way to isolate all build related notification. Since the web dashboard also shows summary of builds. It can be displayed on large screen or monitor for the development teams.

How easy can we find help to troubleshoot?

Team city is a proprietary system of Jet brains. It has product specification documentation. The entire feature present in it is well documented. It is also used widely in the community so help can be found there too.

Summary on few other categories:

Category	Team City
Platform	Servlet Container
License	Proprietary
Windows Builder	MSBuild, NAnt, Visual Studio
Other builders	Rake, FxCop, Command Line
Notification	E-mail, XMPP, RSS, IDE, SysTray
IDE Integration	Eclipse, Visual Studio, IntelliJ IDEA, RubyMine, PyCharm, PhpStorm, WebStorm
Other Integration	Jetbrains Youtrack, JIRA, Bugzilla, FishEye, FindBugs, PMD, dotCover, NCover

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