Implementing quality measures
By now, it should be clear that everything in DevOps is about being continuous, which, in other words, means continuous deployment, continuous integration, continuous testing, and continuous quality engineering. DevOps projects constantly focus on quality at every stage of development and operations. It's different from traditional approaches where teams have a separate phase to fix issues. In DevOps, teams constantly measure the products and fix issues as soon as they occur. One of the six DevOps principles is continuous improvement, which refers to the feedback loop wherein products are improved in every iteration, but also to the DevOps process itself.
A common practice in IT projects was to have a fixing phase, something that Gerald Weinberg describes in his book Perfect Software and other illusions about testing. The fixing phase was put at the end of the development phase before software was handed over to operations. In DevOps, we don&apos...