Survey: continuous integration & testing

Abstract

Computer software has become a part of our everyday life, and many actions are connected with it. A key factor for software companies is to have the ability to release their products fast considering the competition that exists. The main challenge is to keep or even increase the market share. To address this challenge, for the past decade researchers have proposed various techniques for automating the repetitive tasks that happen during software development. Continuous integration (CI) systems automate these repetitive tasks which are the compilation, building, and testing of software and also it is a practice which has emerged to eliminate issues between development and deployment.