Agile Middle East Dubai Agile A-Z meetups by Wajih Aslam on 5th December 2017

1. Feedback Loop
Pragmatic feedback - DevOps
By Wajih Aslam

2. ● Breaking Silos
● Easier Collaboration
● Better Visibility
● More Engagement
● Shared Responsibility
● Shared Ownership
● Automation
DevOps Culture, Mindsets & Practices
Culture eats strategy at the breakfast.
(Peter Drucker)

3. What benefits we can get by using version control?
What should we keep in version control?
How version control can help in the feedback loop?
Version Control

4. Peer Reviews
Code review is systematic examination
(sometimes referred to as peer review) of
computer source code. It is intended to find
mistakes overlooked in software development,
improving the overall quality of software.
https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1156196/Code-Review-Checklist

5. https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2015/05/try-pair-programming/
Pair Programming
A technical practice in which two programmers
work together at one workstation (one screen,
keyboard, and mouse among the pair). One
person, the driver, writes code while the other
person, the observer or navigator, reviews each
line of code as it is typed in. The two
programmers switch roles frequently.

6. https://martinfowler.com/bliki/UnitTest.html
Unit Testing
A unit test is to test one unit of work.
Following are the characteristic of good unit
test,
● Isolated from the other code
● Isolated from the other unit tests
● Targeted
● Mock Dependencies
● Repeatable

7. 3 Laws of TDD
1. You are not allowed to write any production code
unless it is to make a failing unit test pass.
1. You are not allowed to write any more of a unit test
than is sufficient to fail; and compilation failures are
failures.
1. You are not allowed to write any more production code
than is sufficient to pass the one failing unit test.
Test Driven Development
https://manojjaggavarapu.files.wordpress.com

8. Behavior Driven Development
Behavior-driven development (BDD) is a
software development methodology in which an
application is specified and designed by
describing how its behavior should appear to an
outside observer.
BDD encourages collaboration between
developers, QA and non-technical or business
participants in a software project.

9. The use of special software (separate from the
software being tested) to control the execution of
tests and the comparison of actual outcomes
with predicted outcomes.
Acceptance Test Automation
UI tests
Integration tests
Unit tests
Testing Pyramid

10. Continuous Integration
● All developers run private builds on their own workstations before
committing their code to the version control.
● repository to ensure that their changes don’t break the integration build.
● Developers commit their code to a version control repository at least once a
day.
● Integration builds occur several times a day on a separate build machine.
● 100% of tests must pass for every build.

11. CI Server and CI Practices
A CI server runs an integration build wherever a change is
committed to the version control repository. The CI servers will pull out latest
changes and run build scripts to produce new build/product.
CI Practices
● Commit code frequently
● Don’t Commit broken code
● Fix broken build asap
● Write automated tests
● All tests must pass
● Run private build
● Avoid getting broken

12. ● Continuous delivery (CD) is a software engineering approach in which teams produce
software in short cycles, ensuring that the software can be reliably released at any
time.
● It aims at building, testing, and releasing software faster and more frequently.
● The approach helps reduce the cost, time, and risk of delivering changes by allowing
for more incremental updates to applications in production.
● A straightforward and repeatable deployment process is important for continuous
delivery.
Continuous Delivery

13. Visibility – All aspects of the delivery system
including building, deploying, testing, and
releasing are visible to every member of the team
to promote collaboration.
Feedback – Team members learn of problems as
soon as possible when they occur so that they are
able to fix them as quickly as possible.
Continually deploy – Through a fully automated
process, you can deploy and release any version
of the software to any environment.
Deployment Pipeline
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_delivery

14. Feature Branching vs Feature Toggle
At first try to figure out which feature are most valuable
Try to resolve dependencies earlier
Get the business ready for upcoming feature
Avoid feature branches as much as possible
Use feature toggle instead of feature branching
Be Agile and reduce lead time and cycle time

15. ● Hardware
● Software
● Servers
● Environment
● Code
● Data
● Databases
● Backups
● Repositories
● VM
● Cloud
● Containers
……… more
Infrastructure and Virtualization

16. Application Monitoring and Alerting
https://www.acronis.com/en-us/blog/posts/web-application-monitoring-basic-framework

17. Analytics, Log Management and
Reporting
http://www.onlinemediamasters.com/google-analytics-custom-dashboard-examples/

18. Application Performance
https://newrelic.com/application-monitoring

19. http://www.proxynetgroup.com/communications/services/network-security-and-disaster-recovery.php
Security and Disaster Prevention