Foreword
Often when people think about build, they think just about the act of compiling some source code – when I hit F5 in the IDE, it builds, right? Well yes, kind of. In a real production build system, there is so much more to it than that. There are many kinds of builds – F5, desktop, nightly, continuous, rolling, gated, buddy etc. The variety of build types is reflective of the important role build plays in the software development process and the varied ways it does so. Build is a key integration point in the process. It is where developers’ work comes together; it is where developers hand off to test and where release hands off to operations. No wonder there are so many requirements on it.
As I mentioned, build is about a lot more than ...
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