Continuous Integration

The convention governing what branches exist, what they mean, and how work reaches production.

Automatically releasing every change that passes validation.

A build check that fails when coverage falls below a threshold, and what that pressure produces.

Documentation that has drifted from the system it describes, and is now worse than none.

A runtime switch that decouples shipping code from enabling behaviour.

Overlapping changes that a merge cannot combine automatically, requiring a decision.

Validating changes against the state they will actually merge into, in order, rather than in isolation.

A committed numeric ceiling on a page's cost, enforced automatically.

A proposal to merge a branch, carrying review, automated checks, and the discussion around it.

Replaying a branch's commits onto a new base, producing new commits with the same changes.

Failures caused by competition for a finite shared resource rather than by any defect.

Two changes that merge cleanly and are incompatible in meaning.

A chain of dependent changes, each reviewed separately and merged in order.

Combining two lines of work by comparing both against their common ancestor.

Everyone integrating into one shared branch continuously, with short-lived feature branches.

A statement that holds only because its subject set is empty — a green result that measured nothing.