Testing in Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment Workflows

At a high level DevOps is to focus on increasing customer value by reducing cycle times in the development process.  There are lots of ways to achieve this - increase developer productivity, speed the feedback process, and eliminate friction in the testing and deployment process. This post is focused on this latter tactic, while this post will be looking at testing in continuous integration using Build.Preview in Visual Studio Online the same tasks can be used in a continuous deployment (or continuous delivery) workflow with Release Management as well.