Daily Builds and Smoke Testing

Just what it states, it's a test on a Web site that allows a group or a single Web developer to conduct on a daily basis and finding out faulty code, hence the "daily build and smoke test." Joel Spolsky, a software developer in New York City, replies, " Even on teams of 1, daily builds [and smoke test] give you a way to track down weird bugs that seemed to have slipped in a while ago by binary searching through the historical builds. (What the heck?! It never did that before! Did it?) And more crucially, by giving you a canonical way to build "the final bits" from raw checkouts, you can be confident that you never forget some crucial step when you release a new version." He has provided a nice link on daily builds here. Check out the information he writes about, it gives a good example on daily builds.