How do I get from a highly manual process of development and deploy to continuous integration?

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Published on 2012-09-04T14:58:02Z Indexed on 2012/09/04 15:52 UTC
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We have a development process which is completely manual. No unit tests, interface tests are manual, and merging and integration are as well. How could we go from this state to implementing continuous integration with full (or at least close to full) automation of build and test? We have a pretty intense development cycle, and are not currently using agile, so switching to agile with CI in one move would be a very complicated and expensive investment. How can we take it slowly, and still moving constantly towards a CI environment?

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