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Risk Mitigation and Best Practices
Risks Addressed by CI
Following CI effectively and efficiently helps reduce the following risks :
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Lack of deployable software
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Late discovery of defects
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Low quality software
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Lack of visibility on project health
Best Practices
To adapt CI in your project, the following are the important practices to be followed diligently :
- Using a version control system
- Committing code frequently to the work branch and mainline
- Automating developer tests
- Running private builds
- Ensuring all the tests and inspections run successfully
- Refraining from committing a broken build
- Fixing broken build on priority
- Avoiding checking out a code related to broken build
