Benefits of CI
Continuous integration practices provide development teams with several critical advantages.
Continuous integration, or CI, is a development best practice where developers frequently integrate code they’re writing into a shared repository. This allow their code to be continuously verified and tested as it is integrated with the main codebase. As organizations seek to produce better software faster, continuous integration can help accelerate development timelines while reducing the cost of finding and fixing defects within an application.
Continuous integration is a best practice in Agile and DevOps development methodologies. The objective of continuous integration is to prevent integration nightmares late in a project, which can occur when multiple developers work on code independently and wait to merge their work with other developers until they’ve completed work on their own components.
Continuous integration requires developers to integrate their work with the main version of the codebase, known as the trunk, on a regular basis, often multiple times per day. Automated builds and automated tests validate the changes to code, identifying bugs or regression issues. By integrating code regularly, CI enables development teams to fix bugs and integration issues earlier in the process, when remediation is easier and less costly.
Continuous integration practices provide development teams with several critical advantages.
Automated testing is a core feature of continuous integration. The ability to regularly test code for small errors is an integral part of the CI process.
There are several key types of tests that are common to continuous integration.
Managing testing in the CI process requires superior test management and test automation tools.
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In software development, continuous integration is a practice where developers frequently merge the changes they’ve made to code into a central code repository. Automated build and test tools validate the changes each time new code is added to the repository. By integrating code changes daily or several times a day, continuous integration allows errors to be quickly detected and fixed, accelerating the development process.
Continuous integration is the practice of frequently integrating changes to code made by different developers in order to fix issues and solve problems earlier in the development process. Continuous delivery is the practice of ensuring that applications are always ready to be deployed.
Automated testing is an integral part of the continuous integration process. The goal of continuous integration is to have developers commit code frequently, automatically testing it to ensure that code changes are working as expected and to find and address defects earlier in the process when they’re easier and less costly to fix.