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End-To-End Testing is used by many organisations, but relying on extensive end-to-end tests is fundamentally incompatible with Continuous Delivery. Why is End-To-End Testing so commonplace, and yet so ineffective? How is Continuous Testing a lower cost, higher value testing strategy?
Continuous Delivery often leads to the discovery of suboptimal practices within an organisation, and the Release Testing antipattern is a common example. What is Release Testing, and why is it an example of Risk Management Theatre?
Build Feature Branching is oft-incompatible with Continuous Integration
Integration Feature Branching is overly-costly and unpredictable
Trunk Based Development minimises development costs and risk
A taxonomy of version control strategies for and against Continuous Integration
Release Feature Branching dramatically increases development costs and risk
This series of articles explains why Release Testing – end-to-end regression testing on the critical path – is a wasteful practice that impedes Continuous Delivery and is unlikely to uncover business critical defects. Organisation Antipattern: Release Testing – introduces the Release Testing antipattern and why it cannot discover defects Organisation Antipattern: Consumer Release Testing – introduces the consumer-side […]
Continuous Delivery and DevOps experience reports from the wild I am delighted to announce Matthew Skelton and I are co-authors of a new book Build Quality In – a collection of Continuous Delivery and DevOps experience reports from the wild. The interdependent disciplines of Continuous Delivery and DevOps can transform the fortunes of an organisation, but […]
Continuous Delivery reduces defect probability and cost Continuous Delivery often challenges conventional wisdom within the IT industry, and by advocating the rapid release of value-add to reduce risk it contradicts the traditional belief that a low release cadence is an effective risk reduction strategy. How can releasing software more frequently reduce both defect probability and defect […]
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