Chapter 7. Advanced CI tools and recipes
This chapter covers
This chapter provides techniques to help you implement advanced continuous integration (CI). As you learned in earlier chapters, CI is the backbone of an Agile ALM. But why do we need to discuss advanced CI? CI is a widespread discipline. Its basic concepts are widely understood and supported by all build servers (such as Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity, Continuum, and CruiseControl), but advanced topics, such as those I cover in this chapter, are rarely covered elsewhere. This chapter explains how to implement Agile ALM in the context of CI, as illustrated in figure 7.1.
Figure 7.1. Advanced CI scenarios for Agile ALM that are covered in this chapter: building and integrating platforms or languages (.NET and integrating Cobol by using Java and Ant), enabling traceable deployment of artifacts, building artifacts for multiple target environments (staging these artifacts by configuration, without rebuilding them), bridging different VCSs, and performing audits.
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If you’re interested in CI basics that we don’t cover in this book, consider reading Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk by Paul. M. Duvall (Addison-Wesley, 2007) or Martin Fowler’s free online resources (http://martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.html).