Build

How it is used

Builds pass or fail, and are 'green' or 'red'. If your change makes it fail, you 'broke the build'. As a verb: 'build the image', 'it builds on my machine'. 'Build time' is how long it takes.

Example sentences

1. The build is red again; someone pushed code without running the tests.

2. Caching dependencies cut our build time from twelve minutes to four.

Common collocations

• break the build
• build time
• the build failed
• nightly build
• build server

Related terms

• pipelineAn automated series of steps, such as building, testing and deploying, that runs every time code changes and stops if one step fails.
• continuous integrationThe practice of merging small code changes into the shared main branch often, with each change automatically built and tested so problems are found early.
• artifactA file or package produced by a build, such as a JAR file, a binary or a container image, which is stored and later deployed.
• CI/CDShort for continuous integration and continuous delivery (or deployment): the practice of testing every code change automatically and delivering it to users through an automated pipeline.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• build · Software Engineering
• build · Web Development
• build · Mobile App Development
• build · Game Development

More terms: DevOps and CI/CD

• DevOps
• deploy
• deployment
• environment
• production
• staging
• rollback
• continuous delivery
• blue-green deployment
• canary release
• feature flag
• roll out