Alex Yates gets on his soapbox about continuous integration:
Everyone does CI wrong!
(OK, perhaps not everyone, but a lot of people.)
Whenever I deliver a conference session about database continuous integration (CI), I like to start by asking a question to the audience. “Who can tell me what continuous integration means?”
I almost always get responses like:
“Automated deployments!”
“Automated builds upon commit!”
Very occasionally someone will impress me with something like:
“Unit tests!” or “Automatically running my unit tests!”
Not bad answers. Have a biscuit. But you are still missing the fundamental point.
Alex makes a number of great points, so check it out.