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CI/CD

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

/ˌsiː aɪ ˌsiː ˈdiː/abbreviationCommon term

In software engineering, CI/CD means: Short for continuous integration and continuous delivery (or deployment): automatically building and testing every change, then releasing it quickly and safely.

In Turkish: sürekli entegrasyon ve sürekli teslimat, sürekli entegrasyon ve dağıtım

How it is used

Teams set up and maintain a 'CI/CD pipeline' with tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or Jenkins. People often say just 'CI': 'CI is failing', 'Wait for CI to pass.'

Example sentences

  1. Our CI/CD pipeline runs the tests and deploys to staging on every merge.

  2. Setting up CI/CD early saved us a lot of manual release work.

Common collocations

  • CI/CD pipeline
  • set up CI/CD
  • CI is green
  • wait for CI
  • buildThe process of turning source code into a program or package that can run, or the result of that process. Also a verb: to build the project.
  • deployTo put a new version of software onto servers or devices so that it starts running there, for example in a test environment or for real users.
  • stagingAn environment set up to be as close as possible to production, where a team checks a release one last time before real users get it.
  • unit testA small automated test that checks one function or class on its own, separate from the database, the network and the rest of the system.
  • pushTo send your local commits to a shared remote repository, so that other people and automated systems can see them.

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