Visual Studio Team System: Better Software Development for Agile Teams

Section 4: Build and Integrate Often

BUILDING AND INTEGRATING need to be part of your team’s everyday activities because putting together the parts of your software is not something that you want to leave until the end of the project. Chapter 11 introduces the basic ideas of creating an environment to centralize this work and validating the resulting software with different types of tests. It also makes the case for automating these actions so that they can be performed regularly, reliably, and consistently. Chapter 12 explains how to put the theory into practice using Team Foundation Build, which allows your team to progress its work toward final deployment in the business environment by creating frequent versions of its software in an automated ...