Agile Application Lifecycle Management: Using DevOps to Drive Process Improvement

Chapter 8. Continuous Integration

Continuous integration (CI) is an essential practice that involves putting together code that has been created by different developers and ascertaining if the code components can compile and run together successfully. CI requires a robust automated testing framework, which we will discuss further in Chapter 20, and also provides the basis for ensuring code quality through both static and instrumented code scanning. Continuous integration often involves merging together code that has been written by different developers and is essential for code quality. The fundamental value of this practice is that integrating a small amount of code as early as possible can avoid much bigger issues later. It would be difficult ...