What does Continuous Integration mean? What is involved in order to consider a team is practicing “Continuous Integration”?

        Continuous Integration means a practice done to integrate codes by the developers into system of shared repository multiple times in a day. An automated build is developed along with testing process, whenever a change is made by any team member. This process encourages teams to practice CI by sharing their codes as well as units. It is important to understand that developers work on their codes on individual basis, so it is crucial for them to do CI so that made changes are known by each other in an integrated system. If teams would not share these code changes in a branch of shared version control, then conflicts can arise and it would be hard for them to fix any bugs after few days. So, CI is the process to do this shared integration several times on daily basis so that all developer team members remain on the same page.