Crossroads News - Sept 2003
With the growing acceptance of rapid development techniques in many development organizations the notion of continuous integration of changes has also become commonplace. Continuous Integration involves an automated process in which developers changes are either continually or on a periodically introduced into the application as they are checked into the source code repository. Continuous Integration provides a wealth of benefits through the early exposure of potential problems but it also presents yet another hurtle with which configuration management practitioners must contend. Read on as the our writers discuss many of the aspects of Continuous Integration.