Continuous delivery

Continuous delivery is an integrated set of practices and tools used to merge developers' code, build and test the resulting software, and package it so that it is ready for deployment.

Definitions

According to the ITIL Foundation 4e by Axelos,

Continuous integration/continuous delivery. An integrated set of practices and tools used to merge developers' code, build and test the resulting software, and package it so that it is ready for deployment.