Continuous Integration Insights

What is Continuous Integration?

Continuous Integration (CI) is a software development practice where developers regularly integrate their code changes into a central repository, after which automated builds and tests are run. CI's key goal is to find and address integration bugs more quickly and improve software quality. It typically involves developers committing code frequently, ideally several times a day, and relying on automated processes to verify each integration. These automated processes include building the software, running unit tests, and performing static analysis. CI is often used in conjunction with Continuous Delivery (CD) and Continuous Deployment to automate the software release process.

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What other technologies are related to Continuous Integration?

Continuous Integration Complementary Technologies

Continuous Deployment

An extension of Continuous Integration, where changes are automatically deployed to production.

mentioned alongside Continuous Integration in 79% (2.1k) of relevant job posts

Continuous Delivery

An extension of Continuous Integration, where changes are automatically prepared for release to production.

mentioned alongside Continuous Integration in 60% (2.6k) of relevant job posts

Test Driven Development

A software development process that relies on short repetition cycles of writing automated test cases, writing code, and refactoring. Complements Continuous Integration, because automated tests are run frequently to ensure integration health.

mentioned alongside Continuous Integration in 12% (1.1k) of relevant job posts