Continuous integration
Continuous integration (CI) is a software development practice where the source code of software projects is integrated by members of a software development team daily into a repository. It is preferably started at an early stage of the development process. The code integration is usually carried out by a CI tool that performs the verification of the code using an automated build script.
In a development team, there are often multiple developers working on different portions of a project, with the source code of the project hosted in a repository. Each developer can have a local version or working copy of the main branch or mainline on their computer.
A developer working on a feature will make a change to the local copy, and test the code using a set of prepared automated tests to ensure that the code works and does not break any existing working functionalities. Once this can be verified, the local copy is updated with the latest from the repository. If there are any...