Continuous Integration – Integrate At Least Daily

Continuous integration or CI is considered as a developmental practice through which many developers need to integrate the code many times in a day. Developers each check then need to verify through an automated build to allow the teams to identify the problems early. Continuous integration or CI is comparatively cheap. If integrating is not done continuously then it would become expensive. If you don’t follow the process you will have to face a longer period during integrations.

Benefits that Continuous integration or CI can bring to the organization:

By this, you can avoid the long and tense integration
It will help you to increase the visibility to enable better communication
I help to catch the issues in the early stage and nip them
You can spend less time to debug and can add more feature
Help to develop a solid foundation
It helps to reduce the integration problems which will allow you to provide software more frequently

Important principle and practices of Continuous Integration (CI):

maintains the single source of repository
Automate the build
Help your build by self-testing
Each and every commit should build on the integration machine
Help to keep the build fast

By this, it becomes easy for anyone to get the latest executable version. Everyone will be able to see what is going on

Procedure:

Developers check the code in their workspaces
Once it was done, then the commit change to repository
The CI server look after the repository and check the changes once it occurs
The continuous integration server build the system and then run the unit
The server release the deployable for testing
The server assigns the building level
Then the server informs the team who build successfully
CI server gives the alert to the team if the build fails
Next team try to fix the problem ASAP. Then it will continue and test throughout the project