Getting Started with Continuous Integration
Continuous Integration is a development practice that can help improve your company’s ability to deliver quality software. It can reduce the time to market and the deployment cycle from functional complete products to having the solutions deployed on desktop or servers.
Continuous Integration, or CI, can start with a lone developer desktop and mature closer towards production. The ultimate goal is to have a CI environment that can take you from checked-in code to production ready installation packages.
The instructions in this article will help you get started with CI even if you’re a single developer or a small team.
This is a process that takes time, but don’t be afraid of the road ahead, I will walk you through the first baby-steps towards a well-tuned machine. CI-practice is one of many important elements for the software development industry to mature to levels of other types of manufacturing.