Managers often ask me about the so-called "build phase" of the software development lifecycle, often with the intention of outsourcing it to cheaper and possibly less skilled programmers.

It's actually very easy to identify and has very clear milestones.

If you're working in Visual Studio, for example, it starts when you hit CTRL+Shift+B and usually ends with a message telling you that the "build succeeded".

A while ago I answered the following question on SearchSoftwareQuality.com’s Ask The Software Quality Expert: Questions & Answers.The project that I’m working on is to create regression test scripts for applications which are migrating from another location. This test team has mainly functional (system test) scripts and there are many applications that we are taking [...]