Continuous Integration is important for Agile for following reasons

☛ It helps to maintain release schedule on time by detecting bugs or integration errors

☛ Due to frequent agile code delivery usually every sprint of 2-3 weeks, stable quality of build is a must and continuous integration ensures that

☛ In helps to maintain the quality and bug free state of code-base

☛ Continuous integration helps to check the impact of work on branches to the main trunk if development work is going on branches using automatic building and merging function