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Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk
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Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk

by Paul M. Duvall, Steve Matyas, Andrew Glover
June 2007
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
6h 11m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Appendix . The Future of CI

I’ve found there are typically two key complaints from those who have been practicing CI for a while.

  • How can I prevent broken builds?

  • How can I get my builds to run faster?

I will address each of these concerns here, although I don’t expect we’ll find a “perfect” solution to these concerns for some time.

Although the practice of CI provides faster feedback in smaller increments, it is still a rather reactionary practice. Some people choose to perform manual sequential integrations because they always want to keep the build in the green. I expect to see more tool support for running successful integrations on a separate machine, using a queue, before the source code changes are committed to the version control repository. ...

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