This guide provides an overview of continuous integration (CI) and how it can help automate your software development process. It covers the basics of CI and how it can be used to improve your development workflow, from setting up your CI environment to integrating
Continuous integration (CI) is the practice of integrating source code changes frequently and ensuring that the integrated codebase is in a workable state. Typically, developers merge changes to an integration branch, and an automated system builds and tests the software system. Often, the automated process runs on each commit or runs on a schedule such as once a day. Grady Booch first proposed the term CI in 1991, although he did not advocate integrating multiple times a day, but later, CI came to include that aspect.