Best tools for better project quality and improved development process Continuous Integration or CI is a software engineering best practice. Yes! We know this is exactly what can improve your software speed, quality and integration. There are many options available when selecting the Continuous Integration tool that will work for you. Writing code is just one aspect of software development. The other key aspect is related to managing software code efficiently. This is where most of the projects fail. Dealing with the complexities of code and managing its dependencies can be a complicated task when you’re dealing with lines and lines of code. Enter Continuous Integration.
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Wikipedia explains CI as a software engineering practice of merging all developer working copies to a shared mainline several times a day. Extreme Programming (XP) advocated integrating more than once per day - perhaps as many as ten times a day. But reality is something else. The code commitment doesn’t happen several times a day, necessarily. Software development teams have varying numbers of times that they commit to the code. For example, some do it once a day and others do it every hour, depending on their need, magnitude of the code and business requirements. It is a known fact that organizations which follow continuous integration can maintain a highquality and lower the overall expenses that rectify the bugs later in the development cycle. The