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How CI Revolutionized the Web Development World

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A long, long time ago (well, not that long ago) when web applications were developed, they were coded, launched and then tested (in that order).

Testing was a tedious process since developers would click around the application to find bugs.

The man hours spent on this was long and expensive. As a result, new features being added to web applications took longer than it needed to be.

And then, Continuous Integration came along.

Continuous Integration or CI is cohesive approach to web application and software development. It is the process where developers deploy, integrate and test their code many times a day to a shared repository in smaller iterations as opposed to big chunks.

So, how do you know

if you need Continuous Integration?

#1There’s a team of developers working on separate components of your web application. And each developer is storing his/her code on their own machines.

One of the core principles of CI is to

maintain a single source repository.

Developers

commit their code several times a day

to the shared

repository where it is automatically tested.

This brings together the separate components the development team is working on in one place. By having the build tested automatically, developers can spend less time debugging and more time focused on building new features.

Software bugs cost the US economy

$59.6 billion annually.

RTI International: The Economic Impacts of Inadequate Infrastructure for Software Testing

#2You believe in automation.

Builds can automatically be built with a single line of code. This is a powerful feature of CI which allows companies to

automatically deploy applications.

Automated Deployment combined with Build Automation allows companies to save development time since developers

can deploy much faster (in a matter of

seconds as opposed to minutes and hours!).

#3Your development team is spending a big chunk of time debugging.

CI runs tests regularly instead of post-deployment or in the production environment. Whenever code is committed to the system, a build is created. Developers are notified to check the quality of their code if the test returns with an error.

CI will help you reduce your overhead costs of development by finding bugs during the development stage.

#4Releases are slower since

QA has to wait for the

actual deployment to happen.

QA teams no longer have to wait until new features are deployed.

CI is an excellent quality control systemsince testing is done during the development phases as well as post-deployment.

#5You want to gain

visibility on your project.

CI helps companies see trends and

manage code quality throughout

their development.

CI encourages your development team to generate API-like documentation for all the code committed by developers. It also provides real-time information on the code quality.

CI ensures higher code quality, quicker releases and an overall better end product.

And so with CI, the web development community rejoices!

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