title: Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk
author:  Paul M. Duvall 
description: For any software developer who has spent days in "integration hell," cobbling together myriad software components, "Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk" illustrates how to transform integration from a necessary evil into an everyday part of the development process. The key, as the authors show, is to integrate regularly and often using continuous integration (CI) practices and techniques. The authors first examine the concept of CI and its practices from the ground up and then move on to explore other effective processes performed by CI systems, such as database integration, testing, inspection, deployment, and feedback. Through more than forty CI-related practices using application examples in different languages, readers learn that CI leads to more rapid software development, produces deployable software at every step in the development lifecycle, and reduces the time between defect introduction and detection, saving time and lowering costs. With successful implementation of CI, developers reduce risks and repetitive manual processes, and teams receive better project visibility. The book covers
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  About the Tutorial 
  Continuous Integration is a development practice that calls upon development teams to 
  ensure that a build and subsequent testing is conducted for every code change made to a 
  software program.  
  This concept was meant to remove the problem of finding the late occurrences of issues 
  in the build lifecycle. Instead of the developers working in isolation and not integrating 
  enough, continuous integration was introduced to ensure that the code changes and builds 
  were never done in isolation. 
   
  Audience 
  Continuous integration has become a very integral part of any software development 
  process. It will help the software testing professionals who would like to learn how to build 
  and test their projects continuously in order to help the developers integrate the changes 
  to the project as quickly as possible and obt