Principles of Continuous Integration (CI) in Practice

摘要

Continuous Integration (CI), an extreme programing practice, is popular in the modern software development community. This practice promotes the continuous delivery of quality product, effective change management, early defect detection and correction that lead to cost reduction and promises on time delivery. Implementation of CI in the real world, however, is not free of hurdles. It is not unusual for smaller organizations to struggle with paying high CI maintenance and implementation cost. One strategy to make CI small-organization-friendlier is to fine-tune the original principles. In this work, we propose a set of improved CI principles that aim at low-cost CI maintainability.