Comments on: Continuous Integration Myth: CI vs Nightly Builds

By: Tomek Kaczanowski

Tomek Kaczanowski — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:23:22 +0000

I’ve also blogged about the CI vs. nightly build issue at http://www.dzone.com/links/r/why_nightly_build_is_a_musthave_tomeks_blog.html

The main point is, that while CI is great for making sure that changes in your code were ok, the nightly build tells you if changes in your environment were also fine.

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Cheers,
Tomek Kacanowski

By: A blind spot of Continuous Integration « Schneide Blog

A blind spot of Continuous Integration « Schneide Blog — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:34:16 +0000

[...] For a good comparison of CI vs. Nightly Builds see this blog entry. [...]

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:37:05 +0000

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the comment. I’ve seen a few posts from Accurev in this area which are interesting.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:29:01 +0000

I thought you might appreciate this case study about a financial company that is doing frequent integration builds with a longer nightly build.

http://damonpoole.blogspot.com/2008/05/agile-case-study-litle-co.html

I find Damon’s blog enlightening.

More details on that continuous integration at Litle is here:
http://www.accurev.com/case-studies.html

Mark