Small teams, if the codebase is small as well, can get away without CI, since their test suite takes so little time to run (just 3-10 minutes, probably).

The real strengths of CI come in when:

• you have a complex build to automate
• you have 20+ minutes of tests to run
• you publicly display your red-green test scroll by the company water-cooler.

Small teams, if the codebase is small as well, can get away without CI, since their test suite takes so little time to run (just 3-10 minutes, probably).

The real strengths of CI come in when either:

• you have a complex build to automate
• you have 20+ minutes of tests to run
• you publicly display your red-green test scroll by the company water-cooler.