Continuous Integration is a fundamental pillar of running an Agile project. Knowing whether the latest checkins make or break the project and being able to fix mistakes quickly is important to reduce costs and avoid problems in the long run. In addition, with the recent popularity of continuous delivery and continuous deployment, it is becoming even more common to ship fixes and features to customers more quickly.

However, putting this all in place not only requires knowledge of techniques and tools but also a shift in mindset throughout the team and organization.

Learning how to cope with these changes, understanding how to work efficiently with tools and putting in place good practices for CI/CD can have a drastic improvement on your project, team and organization.

• Learn about the CI/CD process and the parts involved
• Work efficiently with tools and techniques to minimize setup costs and running operations
• Learn of new techniques being applied to improve CI
• Deal with the change in mindset

• Continuous Integration: A Gentle Introduction
• The Process
• The Benefits
• The Culture
• Minimum requirements
• CI Architecture overview
• Build Server
• Scaling and Build Farms
• The different parts of CI
• Build scripts
• Tests
• Artifacts
• Enabling the CI process
• Automatic build triggering (VCS, schedule)
• Testing in Depth
• Unit Testing
• Integration Testing
• Functional and Acceptance Testing
• Integrating Frameworks into the process
• Managing CI process
• Monitoring
• Notifications
• Dealing with failures
• Common reasons of build failure: broken code, broken configuration, broken environment (not enough disk space)
• Finding whom to blame: history, changes
• Extending CI process
• Preventing broken code in repository
• Working with Centralized and Distributed VCS
• Feature Branching
• Preventing code degradation: static code analysis
• Code review
• Build Dependencies
• Types of dependencies in CI (pre-post actions, artifact dependencies)
• Benefits of integrated environment with issue tracking and source control
• Continuous Delivery
• Overview of the process & benefits
• Minimum requirements
• Deployment pipeline
• Incorporating Quality Assurance in the pipeline
• Acceptance Testing
• Non-functional requirements testing
• Deploying and Releasing applications
• Summary, Q&A