Now that you probably have run the XRadar once and seen the results, you are ready to unveil its true power. You have reached that stage when you run XRadar regularily as a part of your continuous build process. In this way you can continually monitor the codebase, test and development process as your system evolves.
In order to reach a contuinous XRadar you need to have established a continuous build server that gets your code, builds the system and runs all unit tests and acceptance tests. Several such frameworks exist, but one popular open source alternative id CruiseControl .
Few organisations keep track of their historic system releases and metrics associated with these, but with the XRadar introduced, you now have a very strong incentive to keep these artifacts in a safe place. Many organisations have some kind of versioning system where the files are stored, but often there is no labeling of stable releases and consequently these versions are not easy to build.