Horizonguy’s Software Development Best Practices

Build automation:

This is summary check list of best-practices for build automation.
For a more complete documentation on the subject, check out this post:
Build Automation Best Practice Guide

• Automate build using Continuous Integration
• Integrate Unit tests in your build
• Integrate code coverage metrics in build
• Automate configuration for different environments (Dev / QA)
• Automate deployment to different environments (Dev / QA)
• Automate build in 10 – 20 minutes (or slightly more based on app )
• Automate build and deployment via scripts if build system is down
• Automate build from source control branches to deploy patches
• Make sure you always have access to a build with latest dev code
• Make sure branching structure is in place for releases and patches
• Make sure dll’s and/or applications are versioned