Team Foundation Server 2008 in Action

Chapter 7. Understanding Team Build

This chapter covers

• Team Build under the hood
• Creating a source code submission service
• Distributed builds

The act of creating executable builds is the culmination of all the work that goes into the software development process. As such, this often-neglected step requires careful attention in order to deliver high-quality software to customers. Given the complexities of enterprise software—co-development by geographically distributed teams and dependencies on myriad external components, systems, and services—it’s become even more important to frequently create dependable builds. Furthermore, given the availability of multiple platforms and processors (for example, 64-bit machines), the executables may need ...