Amazon Q’s feature development capability in Amazon CodeCatalyst

The feature development capability in Amazon Q enables users to customize and enhance Q’s question-answering skills for specific domains. Concerning the DevOps process using Amazon CodeCatalyst, feature development could entail issuing a fix to a bug identified in the application, making improvements, or adding new functionality. For all these tasks, the code base requires alteration, testing, troubleshooting for any issues during this process, and then pushing the changes back into production for deployment. While it may seem straightforward, in large code bases with many components and insufficient comments for clarity, especially for newly onboarded developers, completing the end-to-end task quickly becomes challenging.

Let’s walk through an example of how Amazon Q assists with feature development inside Amazon CodeCatalyst. Here, we assume that you have a basic understanding of the different...