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What are Azure Pipelines?

What are Azure Pipelines?

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What are Azure Pipelines?

- [Instructor] Azure Pipelines is a set of services that automate your application build and deployment phases. This is Microsoft's continuous integration and continuous delivery system. Continuous integration, or CI, is the industry word that describes the process of automating the building and testing of code. Before talking about continuous integration, let's examine the idea of code integration. This is a deep topic and historically has had many definitions. For our discussion, it means to integrate two versions of an app together by merging new code with existing code. Once the merge is complete, we need to test the integrated code to ensure that it works correctly. Obviously testing the software by hand takes a lot of time, is repetitious, and is susceptible to human error. We solve the problems with human error by using a testing system that reliably runs all the tests in an easily repeatable fashion, and these testing systems are one part of the continuous integration system…

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