Description
Continuous Integration (CI) refers to the assembly of product components in incremental stages, using a purposeful strategy and defined procedures. CI integration is an approach to continuous testing and product integration that was first introduced in extreme programming (XP), but is now common in almost all successful agile projects. In a CI environment, an application is built and unit tested, and in some cases integration tested, using automated tools, each time new code is “checked-in” to the code management system.
Typical Roles
Configuration Manager (typically for larger teams)
Team Member
Desired Behaviors
- 1.
Set up a code repository for configuration management.
- 2.
Build servers and scripts to automate the integration and testing of checked-in code configured to build and compile the application at frequent intervals.
- 3.
Commit code to the baseline repository as it is completed to enforce early integration testing.
- 4.
Run automated unit and integration tests at frequent intervals.
- 5.
Publish and review the results.