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Embracing DevOps Release Management

You're reading from   Embracing DevOps Release Management Strategies and tools to accelerate continuous delivery and ensure quality software deployment

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835461853
Length 350 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Joel Kruger Joel Kruger
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Understanding the Software Development Life Cycle and Its Design
2. Chapter 1: Understanding the Software Development Life Cycle FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: A Brief Introduction to Release Management 4. Chapter 3: What Are the Various SDLC Release Management Models? 5. Part 2: The Advantages of DevOps Release Management
6. Chapter 4: What Problems Does DevOps Release Management Try to Solve? 7. Chapter 5: Understanding What Makes DevOps Release Management Unique 8. Chapter 6: Understanding the Basics of CI/CD 9. Chapter 7: A Practical Pipeline for Technical Release Managers 10. Chapter 8: How CI/CD Pipelines Enforce Good DevOps Release Management 11. Part 3: Develop a Culture of DevOps in Your Organization’s Release Management Strategy
12. Chapter 9: Embracing DevOps Culture in Your Release Management Strategy 13. Chapter 10: What Does Receiving Support from Leadership and Stakeholders Look Like? 14. Chapter 11: Overcoming Common Pitfalls in DevOps Release Management 15. Index 16. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix

What is continuous testing?

By now, you should have a firm grasp on the importance of automated testing, at least based on the number of times the subject has been mentioned. The emphasis on how important automated testing is to DevOps release management cannot be overstated.

Continuous testing is a practice within the broader context of CI/CD that contributes to software quality throughout the development life cycle. Using carefully curated automated testing strategies, continuous testing ensures that software development teams get real-time feedback, allowing them to rapidly eliminate as many potential risks and flaws as possible and as soon as possible, spanning the entire software development life cycle. Furthermore, teammates will be properly equipped to continuously gain new insights into their products and ways that they can be improved.

However, implementing continuous testing in your organization is not a straightforward process because you must come up with a testing...

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