If you don’t dare to stop the line, continuous integration might be waste. Here is the second part of my three-part series on building the quality in on the SmartBear blog.
In the first post of this series, I wrote about Toyoda Sakichi, the founder of the Toyota industries, who invented a loom that would automatically stop when a thread broke in the 1920. He thereby also invented the concept of “stop-the-line” to build quality in.
Incremental compile with visual feedback is a small step toward the automaticity of the Sakichi loom. Beyond that, we still have these longish feedback cycles, be it manually running unit tests or waiting on the automatic build or system tests run by our continuous integration (CI) system.
