communication

When migrating to a continuous delivery process, it is often the case that a QA team are worried about what their role is going to be, and how the changes will affect the quality of the software in question. While doing continuous delivery does change the QA process, when done well, it improves everyone’s lives and makes the software better quality. Are silver bullets incoming? Not quite, but we don’t have to make someone’s life worse to improve other people’s lives....

Recently we were having a debate about release processes, and I wrote that deployments are not always equal to releases. also deploy != release —Andy, baiting discussion in Slack This turned out to be somewhat controversial until we discussed what I specifically meant by deploy and release. As with all things, agreeing on definitions or understanding what someone means when they use a specific term is essential, so I thought I would write down a short blog post on it....