Continuous Integration Notes

Motivation

• Avoids “It works on my machine” scenario
• Automatically run the unit and integration tests

Goals

• Easy to maintain toolcahins
• Concise but powerful config
• Locally runnable CI jobs

Main tool

• Build system: Make
• Build system generator: CMake
• Make is a well known tool to anyone working with C/C++ projects. It’s responsible for compiling the entire source code of a project, and it allows for great customization and extensibility by allowing each user to write their own compilation rules.

Continuous Integration Frameworks

• Jenkins
• AppVeyor
• Travis

Sample projects

• https://github.com/Algorithms-and-Data-Structures-2021/cpp-cmake-testing-project-template
• https://github.com/bsamseth/cpp-project/

References

• https://workwiththebest.intraway.com/blog-post/ci-c-continuous-integration/
• https://buddy.works/docs/quickstart/cpp
• Cherno about Jenkins and hosting
• Introduction of Docker
• Git hook example