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Overview
Continuous Integration is the process of building software with every change committed to a project's version control repository. This DZone Refcard will walk you through 40 different Patterns and Anti-patterns associated with CI and expands the notion of CI to include concepts such as Deployment and Provisioning. The end result is learning whether you are capable of delivering working software with every source change.
About the Author
Paul M. Duvall is the CEO of Stelligent, a firm that helps clients create production-ready software every day. A featured speaker at many leading software conferences, he has worked in virtually every role on software projects: developer, project manager, architect, and tester. He is the principal author of Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk (Addison-Wesley, 2007) and a 2008 Jolt Award Winner. Paul contributed to the UML 2 Toolkit (Wiley, 2003), wrote a series for IBM developerWorks called “Automation for the People,” and contributed a chapter to No Fluff Just Stuff Anthology: The 2007 Edition (Pragmatic Programmers, 2007). He is passionate about automating software development and release processes and actively blogs on IntegrateButton.com and TestEarly.com.