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Asked: May 13, 20262026-05-13T18:24:53+00:00 2026-05-13T18:24:53+00:00

As a build engineer, I’m constantly looking for new and interesting ways to improve

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As a build engineer, I’m constantly looking for new and interesting ways to improve our build process – and that includes looking for new and interesting ways to fail our builds!

I have yet to find a canonical list of reasons to fail a build … so I figure it’s time to get one created. With that in mind:

What build-time checks – both obvious and creative – have you seen fail builds?

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    2026-05-13T18:24:53+00:00Added an answer on May 13, 2026 at 6:24 pm
    • Compilation failure
      • Production code
      • Tests classes
    • Any kind of tests failure:
      • Unit tests
      • Integration tests
      • Functional tests
      • Performance tests
    • Non conformance to quality checks:
      • Coding convention (Checkstyle)
      • Test coverage (Clover, Cobertura, etc)
      • Bug patterns detection (FindBugs, PMD, Hammurapi)
      • Copy Paste detection (CPD, Symian)
      • Binary compatibility (Clirr)
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