Introduction to Continuous Integration

Mike Roberts (NYSE TransactTools)

Beginners Program · Developing

Wednesday, 16:00, 1 hour 30 minutes | Meeting Room 12

From Martin Fowler's frequently-quoted article:

Continuous Integration is a software development practice where members of a team integrate their work frequently, usually each person integrates at least daily - leading to multiple integrations per day. Each integration is verified by an automated build (including test) to detect integration errors as quickly as possible. Many teams find that this approach leads to significantly reduced integration problems and allows a team to develop cohesive software more rapidly.

Continuous Integration is one of the core development practices within agile development, and fortunately is typically a relatively simple one to setup.

In this session Mike Roberts will be drawing on 5 years of experience using and implementing Continuous Integration strategies to show you how you can add such a practice to your own development team.

Mike leads the development team of TCM, the world's leading financial messaging engine, at NYSE TransactTools (http://www.nyse.com/transacttools).

Previously Mike worked as an agile development consultant at ThoughtWorks and Finetix, which makes him an expert in sticking index cards to walls in a strategic manner.

Mike also co-led CruiseControl.NET (the leading open-source Continuous Integration server for .NET projects) for a few years, before going post-technical in his current role.