Business Intelligence Cookbook: A Project Lifecycle Approach Using Oracle Technology

Creating a cyclical build and test process

Defects and enhancements are required to be placed into releases and environments. To enable this, a cyclical build and test process is required.

Getting ready

Before starting, it is important to determine how often you require builds. The builds should be frequent enough to show progress, but not so frequent that they add unnecessary overhead to the project. To start with, a frequency of once a week should be sufficient. You can increase or decrease your build cycle as required. It is important to get into the build cycle directly from the start of the project. Releases into the test environment can be more frequent than releases into production. This enables components, defects, and enhancements to be ...