Hands-On Software Engineering with Python

Continuous integration

Continuous Integration (CI), in its simplest description, is a repeatable, automated process for merging new or altered code into a common, shared environment, either on some sort of timed basis, or as a result of some event such as committing changes to a source control system. Its primary goal is to try and detect potential integration problems as early in the code promotion or deployment process as possible, so that any issues that arise can be resolved before they are deployed to a live, production branch. In order to implement a CI process, regardless of any tools that might be used to control or manage it, there are a few prerequisites:

• Code needs to be maintained in a version control system of some sort, and ...