Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment

Is your full application lifecycle agile? or just your software development process?

Agile development has proven to be an effective way to improve the quality, flexibility, and clarity of an organization's software development efforts. Continuous Integration helps to make agile a reality by ensuring frequent interaction between different developers' work in the form of small envelopes of changes that are constantly examined.

DTO's consultants are experienced at helping organizations put Continuous Integration policies and tooling into place.

But getting the most out of Agile efforts doesn't end with Continuous Integration. The get the most out of Agile you need to look at your entire application lifecycle. Enabling those small unit of change to be quickly promoted through your application lifecycle and to be continuously tested (using both automated and manual testing) is critical.

The concept of Continuous Deployment extends your Continuous Integration loop to automatically deploy and test each build in a live QA envrionment. This ensure several things:

• Each build runs through an automated battery of unit, regression, funcational, and user testing
• Your deployment automation and configuration management (as critical to stable operations your source code) is automatically tested against each build
• You always have a live "early test" environment where product managers and business stake holders can preview the lastest build

The principles of Agile, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Deployment can help any organization that builds and operates software as a revenue producing service. DTO can help you figure out which parts of these methodlogies is right for your organization and help you put the right tooling and processes into place.