Examining the benefits and practices of Continuous Integration (CI), this thorough manual discusses the benefits of CI in terms of software development and its applications in terms of improving software quality and reducing risk, using examples in Java and .NET that demonstrate the principles and practices of CI and offering suggestions on how to create an effective CI system, deal with potential pitfalls, and more. Original. (Intermediate)
Paul Duvall is the CEO of Stelligent, a firm that helps clients create production-ready software every day. A featured speaker at many leading software conferences, he has worked in virtually every role on software projects: developer, project manager, architect, and tester. He is the principal author of Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk (Addison-Wesley, 2007), a 2008 Jolt Award Winner. Paul contributed to theUML 2 Toolkit (Wiley, 2003), writes a series for IBM developerWorks calledAutomation for the people, and contributed a chapter to No Fluff Just Stuff Anthology: The 2007 Edition (Pragmatic Programmers, 2007). He is passionate about automating software development and release processes and actively blogs onIntegrateButton.com andTestEarly.com.
Stephen M. Matyas III is vice president of AutomateIT, a service branch of 5AM Solutions. He has a varied background in applied software engineering, with much of his professional, hands-on experience being in the areas of enterprise Java and custom software development and services.
Andrew Glover, president of Stelligent Incorporated, is a frequent speaker at conferences throughout North America, as well as author and coauthor of many books and online articles.