Patterns in the Machine: A Software Engineering Guide to Embedded Development

© John T. Taylor, Wayne T. Taylor 2021

J. T. Taylor, W. T. TaylorPatterns in the Machinehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6440-9_8

8. Continuous Integration

John T. Taylor¹   and Wayne T. Taylor²

(1)

Covington, GA, USA

(2)

Golden, CO, USA

 

PIM is about designing, writing, and maintaining source code in a strategic, efficient, reusable manner. However, in addition to writing the source code, there is all the file manipulation and management activity that go along with building the code and the unit tests. Figure 8-1 gives you a rough idea of the scope of the file management activities that are involved in creating and maintaining an embedded systems project.

Figure 8-1

Locations and relationships of files in continuous integration

While, strictly speaking, ...