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There is a steadily increasing interest in the agile practice of continuous integration. Consequently, there is great diversity in how it is interpreted and implemented, and a need to study, document and analyze how automated software integration flows are implemented in the industry today. In this paper we study five separate cases, using a descriptive model developed to address the variation points in continuous integration practice discovered in literature. Each case is discussed and evaluated individually, whereupon six guidelines for the design and implementation of automated software integration are presented. Furthermore, the descriptive model used to document the cases is evaluated and evolved.
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