In Chapter 8, Creating Continuous Integration Build Processes, we walked through the installation and setup of the Cake automation building tool. Also, we extensively demonstrated the process of writing build scripts using Cake with its rich, C# domain-specific languages. We also covered installing Cake Extension for Visual Studio and running Cake scripts using the Task Explorer window.
The benefits of CI process brings to software development cannot be overemphasized; it facilitates the easy fixing of bugs in project's code base through early and quick detection. Using CI, running and reporting test coverage of unit tests projects can be automated alongside the project build and deployment.
In order to utilize the features of the CI process effectively, the unit test projects in a code base should run and test coverage reports that should...
