What is continuous-integration-ci?
The practice of merging all developers' working copies to a shared mainline several times a day.
Continuous Integration (CI) is a software development practice where members of a team integrate their work frequently. Each integration is verified by an automated build (including testing) to detect integration errors as quickly as possible. This leads to significantly reduced integration problems and allows a team to develop cohesive software more rapidly.
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Center["What is continuous-integration-ci?"]:::main
Rel_parallelism["parallelism"]:::related -.-> Center
click Rel_parallelism "/terms/parallelism"
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🧒 Explique como se eu tivesse 5 anos
CI is like a smart teacher who checks your homework every single time you finish one math problem. Instead of waiting until the end of the month to find out you made a mistake on page one, you find out in seconds and fix it immediately. This keeps your whole notebook perfect!
🤓 Expert Deep Dive
CI systems (like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI) trigger a build every time code is pushed. It runs unit tests, linting, and security scans. The core requirement for CI is a fast automated test suite; if tests take hours, it is no longer 'continuous'.