Paul Duvall

This is a good, readable coverage of best practices associated with continuous integration.

CI is one of the fundamental underpinnings of group software development with any kind of reliability -- not just Agile. If you work in an environment where you need to create patches you need a properly managed version control system to begin with. If you want to be able to generate releases, or even move partial releases into a user acceptance testing environment, you need to be able to take the codebase on any given day and be ready, with reasonable confidence, to do a build and move it up the food chain -- which is why the continuous part of integration is so important. This book does a good job of showing, in addition to the technical underpinnings you need (in our environment it's mainly Jenkins, not namechecked in the book, but linked in the more up-to-date website associated with it), the sort of development culture and commitments you need to make CI work effectively.… (meer)