Continuous Integration training course

Session 1: Introduction

Session 2: Overview of CI

• What is Continuous Integration?
• What is the Build?
• Key CI principles
• Terminology

Session 3: Why Adopt a CI Process

• Benefits of Continuous integration
• Reducing Risk in Software Development

Session 4: The CI process

• What you need for CI
• General Working Procedure
• Nine Key Practices
  • Commit Code Frequently
  • Don’t Commit Broken Code
  • Run private Builds First
  • Fix Broken Builds immediately
  • Avoid Getting Broken Builds
  • Write Automated Developer tests
  • All Tests Must Pass
  • Automate As Much As Possible
  • Shared Ownership

Workshop: 45 mins – 1 hour

Session 5: Making CI Work

• What stops teams using CI?
  • My project is too big / I have a legacy application / It is too complex etc.
• Making it happen

Session 6: CI and Testing

• What should you test?
• Types of test
• What tools should you use
• Testing using mock objects / stubs / fakes
• Mock Object tools (JMock/Easy Mock etc.)
• CI and Test Driven Development – the relationship
• CI and BDD – the relationship