Article: Continuous Integration: Was Fowler Wrong?
Continuous Integration: Was Fowler Wrong? It's about tests not builds by Eric Minick
While rereading Martin Fowler's classic paper, Continuous Integration, it struck me that its approach to Continuous Integration (CI) is fundamentally flawed. Fowler, like most of the CI community, seems to argue that CI is about building rather than testing. This basic misconception, permeating an otherwise good paper, has contributed to poor tool designs that are focused on build automation and, perhaps more importantly, an untold numbers of teams following bad practices.
