name: Continuous_Integration isbn: 0321336380 title: Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk author: Paul Duvall author: Steve Matyas author: Andrew Glover publisher: Addison-Wesley year: 2007 start: 2007-08-01 stop: 2007-08-14
The entire book can be reduced to two slides: one diagram and one bullet list of pros and cons. The diagram shows up again and again; they use it as a map to the contents, highlighting the current section. Each time, the diagram takes about three quarters of the page. It is not a very busy diagram and it could easily have been made smaller.
So far, it is very repetitive. They keep repeating the same things over and over. They keep promising that topics will be covered in more depth in later chapters, but I am still waiting.
In the end, the whole book could be reduced to that one diagram and a short bullet list of pros and cons. I was pretty disappointed. But if you need to sell a continuous build to someone who is not technical and does not understand programming, maybe this is a book for that.