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What is Continuous Integration?

1:39 with Andrew Chalkley

As professional developers you know how important it is to have tests for your code. But having tests doesn't always guarantee your life is headache free...that's where Continuous Integration comes in!

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    [MUSIC] 0:00
    Hello world Andrew here, lifelong learner, JavaScript developer, and 0:04
    teacher here at treehouse. 0:08
    As a professional developer you know every application should be tested, but 0:10
    that doesn't stop you from running into problems for 0:14
    example when working on big teams with many developers, 0:17
    you work on a project and you start introducing lots of different features. 0:21
    These can cause many much conflicts and undesirable behavior in your code. 0:26
    Often your code is expected to run on different operating systems and versions. 0:31
    Maybe you develop on a Mac or Windows, but need to deploy the code to Linux. 0:36
    Dependencies are always tricky. 0:42
    It's easy to forget the safe flag when your npm install a module. 0:44
    When someone else runs your code, 0:49
    it doesn't work because the package .JSON isn't up to date. 0:50
    This is where a development practice called continuous integration comes in. 0:54
    Continuous Integration or 1:00
    CI requires developers to match code into a shared repository several times a day. 1:02
    Automated tests run and to detect service and 1:08
    help developers find those areas easily. 1:11
    Committed infrequently makes error handling more troublesome, in most cases 1:14
    continuous integration providers integrate with badging control systems like GitHub. 1:20
    There are number of continuous integration services out there for 1:25
    example, Travis CI, CircleCI, Bamboo, Codeship and Jenkins. 1:30
    In this workshop, we're going to take a look at Travis CI. 1:35

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