Continuous integration is an important tool for finding issues early and is especially useful in team environments. Here at Medallia, we have built our own continuous integration system which automatically builds all our code, runs the test suite and presents the results in a nice UI.
About 3 years ago we switched from Subversion to Mercurial which allows us to improve our workflow by keeping all features on separate branches until they are ready to be merged. Each release gets its own....