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Basics of Continuous Integration (CI)

Almost every methodological approach in software development aims to reduce development time and produce more qualified products. Continuous Integration (CI) also aims to reduce development time. Basically, CI is software development practice that developers need to check-out their codes in their local development environment and than integrate them to shared repository. According to Martin Fowler who known by his studies about CI, there should be at least one integration to shared repository done everyday, but the frequency of integration is expected to be more than one integration. By this way, test activities are performed during every integration and problems caused by the integration can be minimized. As it is emphasized in this blog , CI says us as "pay me now, or pay me more later" . If we look at the history of CI, it goes back to extreme programming (XP) which advocates that there should be frequently code merged to master to cover unstable requirements of customer...

Report: The State of Mobile App Development and Testing 2014

Mobile is in everywhere. If you want to be successful in your domain you need to put your business to mobile world too. Because the trend of mobile device usage is still and is going to be increased, people want to continue to use web application with their mobile devices while they are mobile. According to Flurry , leading domain in this trend is social media like facebook, twitter, foursquare and many others; and  the other popular domains are respectively utilities, entertainment,  e-commerce, games.  By SmartBear , a report about the mobile application development and testing is published. Let's look at what SmartBear does and how to benefit from this research the we can analyze the situation. SmartBear is software company, mainly focus on software development, software quality and system management tools. They have more than 10 famous products on the market. For software quality and testing, SoapUI, LoadUI and TestComplete are well-known tools. Based on my...