Title :
Team Pace Keeping Build Times Down
Author_Institution :
ThoughtWorks, London
Abstract :
The use of automated build and continuous integration systems by software teams is a well-established practice, and has been shown to provide significant benefits. However, to qualify the value of continuous integration practices it is necessary to to compare their cost with the associated benefit. When considering automated builds or continuous integration in an agile team, this cost is the time taken by developers to run the build script and automated tests before code can be committed and/or deployed. This paper discusses the effect of this time on team behaviour by comparing two projects with significantly different build times.
Keywords :
software development management; agile team; automated tests; continuous integration practices; continuous integration systems; software teams; team pace; Application software; Assembly; Automatic testing; Costs; File servers; Java; Radio access networks; Relational databases; Software systems; Workstations; Build times; Team Pace; team behaviour;
Conference_Titel :
Agile, 2008. AGILE '08. Conference
Conference_Location :
Toronto, ON
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3321-6
DOI :
10.1109/Agile.2008.41