What is Continuous Integration?
Continuous Integration (CI) is a practice of development requiring developers to integrate code several times a day into a shared repository. The automated build verifies each check-in, allowing teams to spot issues early. 1
When periodically integrating, you can easily identify and find errors. Here are top 4 reasons why you should use CI from the start of your project and why you should consider it 2:
- Control the real-world analysis
Have you ever passed tests on your computer, but someone else has failed? Well, you can avoid this embarrassment with CI.
- Decrease code review time
You can communicate with each other with your CI and Version Control Server and tell you when a merge request is good to merge.
- Don't break stuff
If your code is tested before and after merging, you will be able to decrease the number of times your master build is broken.
- Deploy your code to production
If all the tests within a given branch are green, you can have the CI server automatically deploy your code to production. That's what's called Continuous Deployment.
According to an article on guru99, top 10 continuous-integration tools are: Buddy, BuildMaster, Jenkins, TeamCity, GoCD, Bamboo, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Codeship, Buildbot.
If you integrate CI system to your development cycles, you can also integrate automated TESTBONE.com and test your system with Functional, API, Load*, Security*, Crossbrowser*, Usability* tools.
(* Will be available in the near future)