There is a discussion on CI at UrbanCode here. It is a bit pedantic debating the value of build versus test. I regard a build as a fundamental test of source code self-consistency, which must pass in order to have a software product in which to perform other tests. Through sometimes painful re-engineering of imploded build scripts, or reverse engineering some hidden packaged build “automation”, customers have asked “Do you really have to make the build work? Isn’t there some way to scan the source code?” Well, that really is what a build is.