Recommendations

Some of the general points of the chapter are:

• Run Visual File Information and VerCheck on each build.

• Establish a quality bar that the build will be measured against

• Let the test team own the BVTs, but let the build team run them.

• Automate BVTs and smoke tests.

• Track BVT results on a public intranet page.

• Know the difference between BVTs and smoke tests.

• Always have the testers or developers run the smoke tests, not the build team.