Getting Started - Continuous Integration - page 13

The Integrate Button
The Integrate button (see Figure 1-4) is a visualization of a fully
functioning and automated integration build—making the build a
nonevent . Include many of the processes to ensure that your soft-
ware works as intended. You can compile, rebuild a database with
test data, run tests, inspect, deploy, and provide feedback. By
automating your build, you can run many of the processes at the
push of a button.

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Run
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Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk

FIGURE 1-4 Visualization of the Integrate button

slightly different in these environments. Although you are not generat-
ing binaries using dynamic languages, many provide the capability to
perform strict checking, which you can think of as compilation in the
context of these languages. Despite this subtlety, dynamic language
environments benefit from the other activities executed during a CI build.