How does Continuous Integration improves software quality? [closed]

Question

I believe that one of the biggest advantages of using CI is capability of detecting defects, which makes integration and deployment tasks easier.

It is not clear to me, however, how does CI improves software quality. Obviously, the use of a good test suite results in less bugs, but does it changes anything regarding other software quality factors like, for example, maintainability, completeness or consistency?

Answer 1

CI ensures that what was checked in will compile and the unit tests will pass.

So, each build you could give to users and have them test, to ensure that the software will meet there needs.

That is the big way it helps, in an agile environment, to allow people to get their hands on working code and try it, without going through a release cycle.