Add two more to our score on the Joel Test - as of today, we are running automated builds - daily which can be run manually if need be, with one command.
This process, using NAnt, automates our VB6.0 builds would you believe - gets all the latest code, checks out binaries and project files for recompiling, moves them off to a deployment project and uses Wise Install Maker 8.1 to build a setup program. This program is deployed to our network and the testing guys and relevant developers are notified via email of it's success (or otherwise).
There is now so much more I want to automate, like release notes and changing statuses of tasks in our bugs/enhancement database, but one step at a time. I feel really confident that the decreased feedback cycle this will give us - from testing - will greatly improve the speed at which we close off outstanding issues - one of the major issues I've need to address since starting in this role.
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