Support:Sumodev/Continuous Deployment
By the end of 2011, Support Engineering wants to move from big releases to Continuous Deployment. There's lots to do to reach that goal.
Measurable Goals
- A bugfix reaches production within 30 minutes of being checked in.
Action Items
Testing
- Expand unit test suite to cover front end and JavaScript.
- Organize test suite into unit/functional/acceptance/etc.
- Work with Web QA Automation to maximize automated coverage and combine results.
- Automated performance tests.
- Aggregation and graphs.
Infrastructure
- Define a secure, defensive, robust flow from source control to production.
- If someone steals James' laptop, breaks in, and commits an infinite loop, that change should not reach production.
- Automate push process.
Release Planning
- Push every week. (By end of Q2.)
- Push every day.
- Push several times per day.
Features
- Support feature flags.
- Support features per group or percentage.