---
title: "Continuous integration with CruiseControl lessons learned"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/1/5/continuous-integration-with-cruisecontrol-lessons-learned.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/1/5/continuous-integration-with-cruisecontrol-lessons-learned.html"
published: "2005-01-05T22:45:00"
updated: "2005-01-05T22:45:00"
tags: ["Agile Related"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Christopher Judd posts his lessons from implementing Continuous integration with CruiseControl.Net. [via TestDriven.com ] Continuous integration is a term used in Agile development project to denote the fact that…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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# Continuous integration with CruiseControl lessons learned

By Roy Osherove January 5, 2005 In [Agile Related](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile-related)

**Historical article** · Originally published January 5, 2005; technical details may be outdated.

[Christopher Judd posts his lessons from implementing Continuous integration with CruiseControl.Net.](http://blogs.apress.com/archives/000377.html)

_\[via_ [_TestDriven.com_](http://testdriven.com/)_\]_

Continuous integration is a term used in Agile development project to denote the fact that integration of all the code base is done as frequently as possible. That means getting the latest version from source control and building it all. It also means running all the unit tests on the latest build. This early integration allows the team to catch bugs and bad code as early as possible, when it's still easy and quick to find and fix. [CruiseControl.Net](http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/) is one of the best known CI daemons. I suggest you give it a go on your own projects.

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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