Continuous integration
Continuous integration (CI) is a software development practice where the source code of software projects is integrated by members of a software development team daily into a repository. It is preferably started at an early stage of the development process. The code integration is usually carried out by a CI tool that performs the verification of the code using an automated build script.
In a development team, there are often multiple developers working on different portions of a project, with the source code of the project hosted in a repository. Each developer can have a local version or working copy of the main branch or mainline on their computer.
A developer working on a feature will make a change to the local ...
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