An important component of fastlane is being able to notify the appropriate stakeholders of the various actions and their outcomes, such as when you have received successful or problematic unit test results, when a new commit has just occurred, or when a new distribution is about to be released internally or externally. Either way, fastlane supports a more transparent and collaborative continuous delivery workflow, and in this chapter, we are going to focus on one of the most popular contemporary software collaboration tools, an instant-messaging client, and the platform known as Slack (https://slack.com/).
This chapter will focus on how to integrate Slack at appropriate key points of our workflow, to enable our stakeholders to become more informed of the progress of our development and delivery processes. The objective of this...