The Practices That Make Continuous Integration

Explore the essential practices that enable true Continuous Integration in software development through this comprehensive conference talk from ACCU 2023. Learn how adopting specific practices leads to faster work flow, increased feedback, improved stability, and higher throughput. Delve into the misconception that Continuous Integration is merely a tooling problem and discover the critical practices that truly enable its benefits. Gain insights on achieving fast feedback, increased stability, and higher throughput through proper implementation of Continuous Integration practices. The talk covers topics such as version control, communication tools, maintaining a stable build, making small incremental changes, test-driven development, feature toggles, automated builds, and high-quality automated tests.

Introduction
Being vulnerable
Feature branching is evil
Continuous integration certification test
Continuous integration definition
Continuous integration practices
Version control
First practice
Communication tool
Never break the build
Team practices do not push to a broken build
The most crucial practice
Well revert when broken
Critical engineering practices
Make changes in small increments
Decoupled code space
virtuous circle
testdriven development
decoupled code
large scale refactoring
Release features incrementally
Feature toggles
Automated build
Always working software
High quality automated tests
High reliable tests