--- title: "Build Bullet (Blog category)" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/category/build-bullet.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/category/build-bullet" tags: [] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "Roy Osherove: author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership. Consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership, Co-Ops and continuous delivery, plus 20 years of blog posts." usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # Build Bullet (Blog category) Roy Osherove: author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership. Consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership, Co-Ops and continuous delivery, plus 20 years of blog posts. HTML: https://osherove.com/blog/category/build-bullet · 13 linked entries (each is plain Markdown) · Site index: [llms.txt](https://osherove.com/llms.txt) - [Beautiful Builds: Release Compilation Step](https://osherove.com/blog/2013/4/23/beautiful-builds-release-compilation-step.md) (2013-04-22): Imagine you could only compile once a week. Once every two weeks. Once a month. Scary? All that code that you write blindly, not knowing whether it even compiles. All those hidden errors lurking, accumulating in the… - [Build Pattern: Cumulative Build](https://osherove.com/blog/2013/2/7/build-pattern-adopt-artifacts.md) (2013-02-07): Note : This will become part of my book on beautiful builds . Any comments or feedback are more than welcome, as well as ideas of other common build patterns you see in the wild. Other Names: Distilled Build… - [Tests and Builds are Made to be Broken](https://osherove.com/blog/2013/1/20/tests-and-builds-are-made-to-be-broken.md) (2013-01-20): Many agile teams seem to be very focused on not breaking the build. I myself used to jokingly say that your team should have a “I Broke the Build” T-Shirt, to switch between team members. That was a mistake. I think… - [Build Pattern: Gated Commit](https://osherove.com/blog/2013/1/20/build-pattern-gated-commit.md) (2013-01-20): Other names: Pre-tested commit Gated Check-in Private Build Delayed Commit Symptoms: The build keeps breaking for trivial problems. Problem: Developers do not know what are the outcomes of committing their source code… - [Build Pattern: Extract Script](https://osherove.com/blog/2013/1/19/build-pattern-extract-script.md) (2013-01-19): This is a variation of Fill in the blanks and will become part of the Builds Book. Symptoms: You have multiple build scripts that contain parts that execute the same set of complicated actions, differing only by path… - [Build Pattern: Fill In the Blanks](https://osherove.com/blog/2013/1/19/build-pattern-fill-in-the-blanks.md) (2013-01-19): Other names: DRY Build Scripts (Don’t Repeat Yourself) Infrastructure agnostic scripts Parameterized Scripts Fill In the Blanks Symptoms: You find yourself having to change the script in many places, because a single… - [Build Pattern: Location Agnostic Script](https://osherove.com/blog/2013/1/19/build-pattern-location-agnostic-script.md) (2013-01-19): Symptoms: Running the build script on a machine where it was never run before requires extra pre-work to make the machine ready, such as mapping drives, creating a special build script folder etc. Problem: The build… - [Build Pattern: Shipping Skeleton](https://osherove.com/blog/2013/1/7/build-pattern-shipping-skeleton.md) (2013-01-07): I am slowly realizing that perhaps my concepts for the build book could be better serving as reusable patterns for creating builds, solving specific problems. Pattern: Shipping Skeleton other names: “Hello World”,… - [Build Bullet #5– How to make your builds FAST using DRY and SRP Principles](https://osherove.com/blog/2012/12/6/build-bullet-5ndash-how-to-make-your-builds-fast-using-dry-a.md) (2012-12-06): (this will become part of my upcoming booklet on beautiful builds ) One of the things that kept frustrating me when I was working on various types of build configurations in our CI server, was that each build in a… - [Build Bullet #4: Rolling Builds and the Plane of Confidence](https://osherove.com/blog/2012/11/27/build-bullet-4-rolling-builds-and-the-plane-of-confidence.md) (2012-11-27): When I check in code I have been working on, I feel: 1. I want to wait for the build result 2. I don’t want to waste time waiting for the build results, doing nothing 3. But I fear doing something in the code until I’m… - [Build Bullet #3– Start Products with an Empty Build and Deploy Pipeline](https://osherove.com/blog/2012/11/18/build-bullet-3ndash-start-products-with-an-empty-build-and-d.md) (2012-11-18): Builds can be nasty beasts when It’s finally time to organize and do them. There are so many things you did not think about, that it can take days or weeks to come up with a build for an existing system. To avoid the… - [Build Bullets #2–Avoid XML Facing Build Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/2012/11/18/build-bullets-2ndashavoid-xml-facing-build-tools.md) (2012-11-18): Having your build scripts in XML is one of the worst things you can do for maintainability and readability. Treat your build scripts like you treat your source code (or, how developers should treat their source code) –… - [Build Bullet #1 - Use Version Aware Build Scripts](https://osherove.com/blog/2012/11/17/build-bullet-1-use-version-aware-build-scripts.md) (2012-11-17): I am thinking of writing a small booklet about better builds . this blog post might end up as a part of it . Let me know if you’re interested by taking a look here. While I do love to use Continuous Integration Servers… --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). 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