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== Continuous integration builds ==
{{See also|Continuous integration}}
Although daily builds were considered a best practice of software development in the 1990s, they have now been superseded. [[Continuous integration]] is now run on an almost continual basis, with a typical cycle time of around 20-30 minutes since the last change to the source code. Continuous integration servers continually monitor the [[revision control|source code control system]]. When these servers detect new changes, they use a build tool to rebuild the software. Good practice today is also to use continuous integration as part of [[continuous testing]], so that [[unit test]]s are re-run for each build, and more extensive functional testing (which takes longer to perform than the build) performed as frequently as its duration permits.