Introducing Continuous Integration/Continues Delivery (CI/CD)

Almost every organization today uses Continuous Integration (CI). Tools like Jenkins, Bamboo or CircleCI are the rule rather than the exception. Developers use Continuous Integration so they need fewer manual steps to compile their code. Automating steps within the development process leads to faster feedback on their work. Testers will have to keep up with this development. It is necessary to understand what happens in CI and how it affects the testing profession. For example, understanding which tests are being run at which level.

A good understanding of CI allows testers to work more efficiently. In addition, testers also increasingly need to work with Continuous Integration tooling to run tests automatically, for example. In short, CI ensures that all changes to the software are continuously brought together and the whole is evaluated. After changing a section of code, this change is put into a version management system. After this is done, compilation of the entire solution, running (unit) tests and an initial quality assessment is performed automatically. This provides continuous integration of the software with corresponding feedback on whether it is still of sufficient quality.

Participants will be introduced to the world of Continuous Integration in this one-day training through a mix of theory and practice. The tool we use in this training is Jenkins. A brief introduction to the topic of Continuous Delivery (CD) will be given at the end of the training.