A CI build can help prevent the late discovery of software defects. A CI build should have a good enough test suite that covers a large percentage of the codebase. One possible metric for a healthy codebase is having 70% or more code coverage in a code base. We will talk later about code coverage, but any software tests should be in checked into source code and tests should be run on a CI build. Any software tests that you have should be run continuously on a CI system.
Late discovery of defects
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