Requirements of A Build System
Basic requirements:
- Frequent or overnight builds to catch problems early.
- Support for Source Code Dependency Management
- Incremental build processing
- Reporting that traces source to binary matching
- Build acceleration
- Extraction and reporting on build compile and link usage
Optional requirements:
- Generate release notes and other documentation such as help pages
- Build status reporting
- Test pass or fail reporting
- Summary of the features added/modified/deleted with each new build
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