Continuous Integration and its benefits

A key attribute to developing software rapidly as possible is continuous integration. This is a practice where members of a development team integrate their work frequently; typically each developer integrates their working copy several times a day, which by extension, leads to multiple integrations per day. The integrations are continually verified by an automated testing process (which is an essential component of continuous integration) as they come in, in order to detect bugs as quickly as possible. This process of rapid integration and iteration usually leads to significantly reduced integration problems and allows a team to develop better software faster. Benefits include: reduced risk (issues are uncovered more rapidly), easier to find and remove bugs (which are usually cumulative, the sooner a bug can be found and eliminated the better), and if you are looking to deploy more frequently (who isn’t) it can help increase your overall throughput and quality in order to reach that goal.


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