Tools to help a small shop score higher on the “Joel Test”

Question

Questions #1 through #4 on the Joel Test in my opinion are all about the development tools being used and the support system in place for developers:

1. Do you use so

Answer 1

For build automation and continuous integration take a look at TeamCity from Jetbrains.

It has a lot of features and is really a breeze to set up and use.

If you use Visual Studio 2005/2008 it will build your solution directly without the need for extra scripts (if a build is all you want.)

It will also execute your unit tests and gather stats on build success, unit test execution times, etc, etc.

Best of all: The Pro edition is free for teams with up to 20 users and 3 build agents.