Continuous Integration Builds
Although daily builds were considered a best practice of software development in the 1990s, they have now been superseded. Continuous integration is now run on an almost continual basis, with a typical cycle time of around 20-30 minutes since the last change to the source code. Continuous integration servers such as CruiseControl or Hudson continually monitor the source code control system. When new changes are detected, a build tool such as Ant or Maven is used to re-build the software. Good practice today is also to use this as part of continuous testing, so that unit tests are re-run for each build, and more extensive functional testing (which takes longer to perform than the build) performed as frequently as its duration permits.
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