May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
300 pages
7h 35m
English
The build automation step of the CI workflow is to ensure that changes in the a project's code base are detected and automatically tested and built. The build automation is usually done with the help of build scripts, which analyze the changes to be made and the compilation needed to be done. The source code should be regularly built, preferably daily or nightly. The success of a commit is measured based on if the code base has been successfully built.
The build automation scripts should be able to build the system with or without the tests. This should be configurable in the build. Irrespective of whether the developer's IDEs have in-built build management in place, there should be a central build script configured on the ...