Keys to Success in Using the Daily Build and Smoke Test

Here are the keys to success in using daily builds:

  • Build every day.

  • Smoke test every day.

  • Grow the smoke test with the product. Be sure that the test remains meaningful as the product evolves.

  • Make a healthy build the project's top priority.

  • Take steps to ensure that broken builds are the exception rather than the rule.

  • Don't abandon the process under pressure.

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