Getting started with CI involves setting up a connection to a version control repository, a build script, and a feedback mechanism. Key features of CI include continuously compiling source code changes, integrating database changes, running tests, inspecting code quality, and continuously deploying updates while enabling automatic rollbacks. Providing timely feedback through documentation is also critical for good CI systems.

1. Getting started
Andrés Arango Alvarez
Santiago Alexander Álvarez Rozo

2. CI
Continuous Integration

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9. Features of CI
● A connection to a version control repository
● A build script
● Some sort of feedback mechanism (such as e-mail)
● A process for integrating the source code changes (manual or CI
server)

10. Source Code Compilation
● Continuous source code compilation is one of the most basic and common
features of a CI system.
● Despite this subtlety, dynamic language environments benefit from the other
activities executed during a CI build.

11. Database
Integration

12. Testing

13. Inspection

14. Deployment
● Furthermore, deployments should include the capability to automatically roll
back all changes applied in the deployment.
● Continuous deployment enables you to deliver working, deployable software
at any point in time.

15. Documentation and Feedback
● A critical feature to good CI systems is speed. The essence of a CI system is
to provide timely feedback to developers and project stakeholders.
● A CI system can provide the benefits of documentation without some of the
hassles.