What is Continuous Integration?
Continuous Integration helps development teams create synergy and repeatable processes. It includes automating builds of code checked in by developers and scheduled builds for different environments. A Continuous Integration environment can also include processes to run unit tests on the code base when it is successfully compiled.
What are the benefits?
All of the steps of the build process are self-documented in the build scripts. Automated build scripts do not forget any of the steps in the build process - which is possible if the steps have to be completed in sequence by developers. This environment will test the build and deployment of your applications hundreds of times before deployments are actually performed in the production environment. This allows for any issues to be found early and resolved early.
We Can Help
There are numerous benefits of continuous integration. We can help your team establish a continuous integration process using open source tools and best practices. Continuous Integration is just one process that contributes to the overall success of software projects and development teams.