  NICOS, NIghtly COntrol System, is a flexible tool for coordination of
software development in large-scale projects. It manages the multi-platform
nightly builds based on the recent versions of software packages, tries to
compensate for technical failures, tests the newly built software, identifies
possible problems, and makes results immediately available to developers spread
over different institutions and countries. The NICOS nightly build services
ensure that new software submissions are consistent and provide expected
results. The NICOS tool was developed to coordinate the efforts of more than
100 developers from 34 countries for the ATLAS project at CERN and can be
easily adapted for other large software projects.

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