---
title: "Video: Beautiful Builds"
url: "https://osherove.com/videos/2013/5/17/video-beautiful-builds.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/videos/2013/5/17/video-beautiful-builds.html"
published: "2013-05-16T23:12:12"
updated: "2013-05-16T23:12:12"
tags: ["msswit"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "While at the MSSwit conference in Ukraine, I spoke about Beautiful Builds , and common patterns you can use to make your builds more coherent and maintainable. You can view the video here."
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/"
---

# Video: Beautiful Builds

By Roy Osherove May 16, 2013 In [msswit](https://osherove.com/videos/category/msswit)

**Historical article** · Originally published May 16, 2013; technical details may be outdated.

While at the MSSwit conference in Ukraine, I spoke about [Beautiful Builds](http://beautifulbuilds.com/), and common patterns you can use to make your builds more coherent and maintainable.

[You can view the video here.](http://www.techdays.ru/videos/6834.html)

## Lessons on this topic

- [Continuous Delivery with TeamCity](https://courses.osherove.com/courses/tdd-and-bdd-in-ruby/continuous-delivery-with-teamcity/) · TDD and BDD in Ruby
- [Day 1 Intro](https://courses.osherove.com/courses/tdd-and-bdd-in-ruby/day-1-intro/) · TDD and BDD in Ruby
- [Where Do You Start with Legacy Code?](https://courses.osherove.com/courses/legacy-code-hero/where-do-you-start-with-legacy-code/) · Legacy Code Hero
- [Continuous Delivery](https://courses.osherove.com/courses/the-art-of-unit-testing-and-tdd-in-java/continuous-delivery/) · The Art of Unit Testing and TDD in Java
- [Summary](https://courses.osherove.com/courses/the-art-of-unit-testing-and-tdd-in-java/summary/) · The Art of Unit Testing and TDD in Java

## More in msswit

[All posts in msswit](https://osherove.com/videos/category/msswit)

- May 16, 2013

    ### [Video: A Second Look At Unit Testing](https://osherove.com/videos/2013/5/17/video-a-second-look-at-unit-testing.html)


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## 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).

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### License

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/