Continuous Integration

Continuous Integration, CI, is the process of building your application on every new source code check-in.

Although, considered a relatively new idea, the concept behind CI has been around for as long as development teams have been writing code. The long standing problem for software development teams have been the integration of the new code and the stability of the application. The integration would be so painful that many development teams would put off integration until they thought they were code complete.

The problem with that particular idea was no one could accurately predict how long it would take to complete the integration.

In some cases, the integration could take as long as the coding for a new release.

• Instant build feedback
• Reduced risk of code instability
• Easier and quicker bug detection and removal
• Allows for more deployments for testers and end-users

CruiseControl for Continuous Integration is a software build framework for continuous build processes.

It includes integration with many other build tools and various source control tools.

A gui interface is provided to view the details of the current and previous builds.

CruiseControl is distributed under a BSD-style license and is free for use.

CruiseControl is an open source tool. Therefore, it makes the source code freely available.

Build Automation is the key to implementing a successful Continuous Integration.

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There are many Software Build Tools used to create and automate software builds.

This list of Software Build tools is growing and the functionality of the tools is expanding.

These tools have come along way in standardizing and simplifying the SCM Engineer's life in regarding to the automation of the software build.

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CI is one of many Software Engineering Best Practices.

Following Software Build Best Practices helps ensure that your development environment is always in a state to build.

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