Neutral build

Under the nightly build, nightly snapshot or short Nightly refers in software development at an early stage in the course of development version status of a software project. He represents a precursor of the continuous integration

The nightly build is a build process is automated and mainly at night when it is unlikely that developers work on the source code. This will ensure that the source code can be compiled without errors on the respective target platform. In addition, usually automatic test runs are performed to work test-driven at sufficiently good test. In contrast to the permanent integration of the nightly build does not have to be paid to short lead times, so can also be performed in an automated regression testing nightly build and elaborate quality metrics are calculated. In addition can be made in the test or target environment during nightly build an installation (deployment).

Versions

Often you can find nightly builds in the open source area for download. These versions contain the latest software changes and patches, but can not assume that they are sufficiently tested one. In general, it is inadvisable to use a nightly build in a production environment and referred instead to a " stable " version (Stable ).