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Description Step: What value do daily builds, automated testing, and peer reviews add to a project? What disadvantages are there?

Server: technology-developer-software/software-design/001-interview-questions-hanselman

Added By: View Owner ON:2015-05-14 17:06:05

Start Date / Time: 2015-05-14 13:16:30

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daily build - catch problems quickly
- side effect is that it forces the team to create and maintain a fully automated build script. This helps to ensure that your build process is documented and repeatable.
- Somebody checked in something that breaks stuff.
- Somebody forgot to check in a necessary file or change.
- Your build scripts no longer work.
- Your build machine is broken.
<a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/204603/nightly-builds-why-should-i-do-it" target="_blank">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/204603/nightly-builds-why-should-i-do-it</a>&nbsp;
- fixed bugs are distributed to testing -&gt; production faster
&nbsp;<a href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000023.html" target="_blank">http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000023.html</a>
automated testing - quickly and easily enable complete and consistent testing across all/many use case scenarios
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peer reviews - 2nd set of eyes on code, enhance code quality,
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disadvantages of each ....
- time to create, maintain build system
- time to create, maintain test suite
- time to complete peer reviews, politics,

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