If you write software, chances are you’ve come across Continuous Integration, or CI. You might never have heard of it – but you wonder what all the ticks, badges and mysterious status icons are on ...

In this article, I tackle the classic question engineers developing software for custom integrated circuits (ICs) grapple with constantly: How do I test my software before the hardware team gets me a ...

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Let me flip the question, if we don’t, what happens? Consider for example a team of developers working together. A developer takes a copy of the current code base and changes it. As other developers ...

The following is an excerpt from Continuous integration: Improving software quality and reducing risk, by Paul Duvall, Steve Matyas and Andrew Glover. Read the complete chapter about the value of ...

In 2001, the Manifesto for Agile Software Development [1] laid the foundation for many modern software development processes. Today, 20 years later, agile methods are in widespread use in numerous ...

Devops may be one of the haziest terms in software development, but most of us agree that five activities make devops what it is: continuous integration, continuous delivery, cloud infrastructure, ...

With Agile approaches being applied with more or less success to hardware design and verification development processes, the question to apply a continuous integration flow in a hardware development ...

A software development system that ensures code changes are compiled and tested routinely. Continuous integration (CI) is used for large applications developed by several programmers, each writing a ...