In this new agile world, you want to improve your application every day by releasing early and often.
How do you manage to release often without major issues?
Create a checklist for your software releases, a list of steps to blindly follow every time release a new piece of software.
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Here is an example of what steps your list should contain:
- Is the code to be released tested? Tested should include the following types of tests: functional testing, load testing, speed testing, accessibility testing, exploratory testing, API testing, Unit testing and others.
- Are all branches code reviewed and merged?
- Is the code to be released tagged with the correct version?
- Do we have approval from all teams to release this piece of functionality in front of live customers?
- Has it been tested on local and staging environments?
- Do we have a rollback plan in case something goes wrong? if yes, which are the steps to rollback?
- Are all assets minified and optimized for production release?
- Are All automated and manual tests passing on local and staging environments?
- Do we have someone on-call?
This list can go on and on, by I would suggest that every team should have a similar checklist.
This checklist should be reviewed and updated every 1-2 weeks (doesn’t matter if you do Scrum or Kanban), most likely at the team retrospective meetings.
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Make sure you starting working on this list and share it with your team as soon as possible. It will help you discover a lost of issues or bugs earlier on.
How does your checklist look like?
Written by Bogdan Vazzolla.
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