What is CI?

Session proposed by Maciej Zawadzki

Slide: Fowler's Definition vs. Maciej's more general definition

CI not from Fowler, from Kent Beck & XP

Slide: What are some boundaries of the original concept?

• audience? (dev team?)
• time? (tight loop?)
• how is quality determination made?

[XP from C2, no separate QA team]

Slide: Current State of CI

• Multi-state CI
• Build pipelines
• Living Builds
• Other Lifecycle Stages
  • Deployment
  • Testing
  • Release

Good test vs. Bad tests / Fast tests vs. Slow tests

Slow tests/builds are probably a design problem

PJ example: build breaks if > 1 minute

people want to do all these different stages and they label all of them CI -- are they wrong?

have your system automatically pull after every save? (have your system automatically commit?)