7. Advanced CI tools and recipes

This chapter covers Tools and recipes for continuous integration Approaches for integrating different artifact types Strategies and tooling for staging artifacts

This chapter provides techniques to help you implement advanced continuous integration (CI). As you learned in earlier chapters, CI is the backbone of an Agile ALM. But why do we need to discuss advanced CI? CI is a widespread discipline. Its basic concepts are widely understood and supported by all build servers (such as Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity, Continuum, and CruiseControl), but advanced topics, such as those I cover in this chapter, are rarely covered elsewhere. This chapter explains how to implement Agile ALM in the context of CI, as illustrated in figure 7.1.