What are the success factors for Continuous Integration?

The key success factors for implementing Continuous Integration (CI) are:

1. Streamlined source code control management processes with a clean code repository, agreed-upon branching and merging strategy, and clear understanding of build dependencies[1].

2. Automated capabilities for version control, code change input checking, merging, code scanning for quality and security, incremental and full builds, unit testing, dynamic scanning, container creation and scanning, functional testing, and artifact versioning[1].

3. Frequent commits by developers to the shared repository, ideally at least once or twice a day, to quickly identify and resolve integration issues[2].

4. Comprehensive suite of automated tests including unit, integration, acceptance and UI tests to cover application functionality and validate code changes[2][4].

5. Reliable and fault-tolerant CI system with a dashboard and alerts to keep stakeholders informed about progress[1].

6. Adoption of trunk-based development where no feature branch lasts longer than a day and all code is versioned, including external libraries[1].

7. **Inclusion of static cod...