Continuous Delivery ( Reliable Software Releases Through Build, Test, And Deployment Automation)

By (author) Humble Jez; By (author) Farley David
Description
Winner of the 2011 Jolt Excellence Award! Getting software released to users is often a painful, risky, and time-consuming process. This groundbreaking new book sets out the principles and technical practices that enable rapid, incremental delivery of high quality, valuable new functionality to users. Through automation of the build, deployment, and testing process, and improved collaboration between developers, testers, and operations, delivery teams can get changes released in a matter of hours— sometimes even minutes–no matter what the size of a project or the complexity of its code base.   Jez Humble and David Farley begin by presenting the foundations of a rapid, reliable, low-risk delivery process. Next, they introduce the “deployment pipeline,” an automated process for managing all changes, from check-in to release. Finally, they discuss the “ecosystem” needed to support continuous delivery, from infrastructure, data and configuration management to governance.   The authors introduce state-of-the-art techniques, including automated infrastructure management and data migration, and the use of virtualization. For each, they review key issues, identify best practices, and demonstrate how to mitigate risks. Coverage includes   • Automating all facets of building, integrating, testing, and deploying software • Implementing deployment pipelines at team and organizational levels • Improving collaboration between developers, testers, and operations • Developing features incrementally on large and distributed teams • Implementing an effective configuration management strategy • Automating acceptance testing, from analysis to implementation • Testing capacity and other non-functional requirements • Implementing continuous deployment and zero-downtime releases • Managing infrastructure, data, components and dependencies • Navigating risk management, compliance, and auditing   Whether you’re a developer, systems administrator, tester, or manager, this book will help your organization move from idea to release faster than ever—so you can deliver value to your business rapidly and reliably.  
Table of contents
Part I Foundations 1 The Problem of Delivering Software 2 Configuration Management 3 Continuous Integration 4 Implementing a Testing Strategy Part II The Deployment Pipeline 5 Anatomy of the Deployment Pipeline 6 Build and deployment scripting 7 Commit Testing Stage 8 Automated Acceptance Testing 9 Testing Non-Functional Requirements 10 Deploying and Releasing Applications Part III The Delivery Ecosystem 11 Managing infrastructure and environments 12 Managing Data 13 Managing components and dependencies 14 Advanced version control 15 Managing Continuous Delivery Bibliography Index
Review quote
“If you need to deploy software more frequently, this book is for you. Applying it will help you reduce risk, eliminate tedious work, and increase confidence. I’ll be using the principles and practices here on all my current projects.” –Kent Beck, Three Rivers Institute   “Whether or not your software development team already understands that continuous integration is every bit as necessary as source code control, this is required reading. This book is unique in tying the whole development and delivery process together, providing a philosophy and principles, not just techniques and tools. The authors make topics from test automation to automated deployment accessible to a wide audience. Everyone on a development team, including programmers, testers,  system administrators, DBAs, and managers, needs to read this book.” –Lisa Crispin, co-author of Agile Testing   “For many organizations Con