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Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation
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Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation

by David Farley, Jez Humble
July 2010
Intermediate to advanced
512 pages
15h 48m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
Content preview from Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation

Chapter 5. Anatomy of the Deployment Pipeline

Introduction

Continuous integration is an enormous step forward in productivity and quality for most projects that adopt it. It ensures that teams working together to create large and complex systems can do so with a higher level of confidence and control than is achievable without it. CI ensures that the code that we create, as a team, works by providing us with rapid feedback on any problems that we may introduce with the changes we commit. It is primarily focused on asserting that the code compiles successfully and passes a body of unit and acceptance tests. However, CI is not enough.

CI mainly focuses on development teams. The output of the CI system normally forms the input to the manual testing ...

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