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Continuous Integration is the practice of merging in small code changes frequently - rather than merging in a large change at the end of a development cycle. The goal is to build healthier software by developing and testing in smaller increments. This is where Travis CI comes in.

Travis CI is a hosted, distributed continuous integration service used to build and test projects hosted at GitHub. Travis CI automatically detects when a commit has been made and pushed to a GitHub repository that is using Travis CI, and each time this happens, it will try to build the project and run tests.

Travis CI offers following benefits:

You can monitor GitHub projects

Runs Test and generate results quickly. Parallel test execution is possible.

Build artifacts & check code quality

Easy Deployment to cloud services

It can identify small as well as large code changes.

Developers can use Travis CI to watch the tests when they are running.

The tool integrates with Slack, HipChat, Email, etc.

Automatic integration with GitHub

Repository access to build pull requests

Support for 21 languages like Android, C, C#, C++, Java, JavaScript (with Node.js), Perl, PHP, Python, R, Ruby, etc

Pre-installed build & test tools

Available services - databases, message queues, etc.

Deployment to multiple cloud services

Encrypt secure environment variables or files

Virtual machines recreated after every build

CLI client and API for scripting

Comes with free cloud-based hosting which does not require maintenance or administration.