Best things, from a Configuration Management perspective, to do in an automated build?

I have a fairly long and complex build automation script. From a configuration management perspective, what are the best practises for an automated build? I saw a thread about cool things to do in an automated build, but what's important?

E.g. backin开发者_开发百科g up and zipping up all the outputted artifacts of the build is one thing and timing the build, what else along these lines?

Thanks

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You already mentioned the half of the ans; rest would be streamlining the multi-projects, enhanceable, Build Labels, Self testing Code, Timeline, Scalability,

From my point of view two most important things are time, coverage level.

Hope this helps a little.