Mastering DevOps and ALM for Efficient Software Development

Software development practices and methodologies have evolved a lot since the first program was written on punch cards. Nowadays, every business process in every industry vertical runs on software and we cannot even imagine our life without applications, as they are used in almost every interaction with our world. Digital transformation has been accelerated during the pandemic and the demand to create more applications has risen to a level that cannot be fulfilled exclusively by traditional software development tools and frameworks. Today, every organization is a software development company regardless of its industry thanks to the global digital transformation.

In this chapter, we will explore Application Life Cycle Management (ALM) in the context of software development. We begin with an overview of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), followed by a discussion of various software development methodologies. We will...