Cusumano, Michael, and Richard Selby. Microsoft Secrets: How the World's Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets, and Manages People. New York: Free Press, 1995. Chapter 5 describes Microsoft's daily-build process in detail, including a detailed listing of the steps that an individual developer goes through on applications products such as Microsoft Excel.

McCarthy, Jim. Dynamics of Software Development. Redmond, Wash.: Microsoft Press, 1995. McCarthy describes the daily-build process as a practice he has found to be useful in developing software at Microsoft. His viewpoint provides a complement to the one described in Microsoft Secrets and in this chapter.

McConnell, Steve. Code Complete. Redmond, Wash.: Microsoft Press, 1993. Chapter 27 of this book discusses integration approaches. It provides additional background on the reasons that incremental integration practices such as daily builds are effective.