Agile Release Maturity
Investing in reliable Software Release Management
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Hosted by cPrime

Today’s Presenter
Kendrick Burson
Software Engineer since 1997
Agile Development Coach
CI systems consultant

Talk about what?
Agile Release Maturity
This is not a sales presentation for any specific tool, language
or framework
It is a selection of practices that can be applied to most
software platforms
It is Based on personal experience on various projects with
tools used in Java ,C# and C++
This webinar is worth 1 PDU

User Poll 1
If you are working on an Agile project, what agile
methodology are you using?
1) Not using Agile
2) Scrum
3) eXtreme Programming
4) Feature Driven Development
5) Other

Principles behind the Agile Manifesto
We follow these principles:
Our highest priority is to satisfy the Working software is the primary measure of
customer through early and continuous progress.
delivery of valuable software.
Agile processes promote sustainable development.
Welcome changing requirements, even late in The sponsors, developers, and users should be
development. Agile processes harness change for able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.
the customer's competitive advantage.
Continuous attention to technical excellence and
Deliver working software frequently, from a good design enhances agility.
couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a
preference to the shorter timescale. Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount
of work not done--is essential.
Business people and developers must work
together daily throughout the project. The best architectures, requirements, and designs
emerge from self-organizing teams.
Build projects around motivated individuals. Give
them the environment and support they need, and At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to
trust them to get the job done. become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its
behavior accordingly.
The most efficient and effective method of
conveying information to and within a development
team is face-to-face conversation.

Release Management ?
The integration and flow of development, testing,
deployment, and support of complex software
systems

User Poll 2
How often do you release software?
1) Daily
2) Every Iteration
3) Quarterly
4) Once or Twice a year
5) Still waiting

Agile Release Maturity
Continuous Delivery
Release Automation
Continuous Integration
Test Automation
Build Automation
Source Control

The Goal
Continuous Delivery

Agile Release Maturity ?

Level 0
Source Control
SCM / RCS
SCM (Source Code Management)
RCS ( Revision Control System )
Single Repository
Commit to Trunk
Branch For Defect

SCM/RCS Servers
Open Source Commerical
Subversion (SVN) Perforce
Git ClearCase
CVS AccuRev
Mercurial TFS
… …

User Poll 3
How many branches of your project
are in progress simultaneously?
1) Trunk
2) Trunk + Defect
3) Release A, B and C
4) I lost count

Level 1
Build Automation
Dependency Management
Resource Management
Compile
Logs: Compiler warnings and violations
Database CRUD

Build Automation
Frameworks
Make, Cmake
MSBuild Script
Unix shell
Ant, Nant
Vb script
Maven Ruby
Python
Gradle
Rake

User Poll 4
If your project requires a database, how
do you manage the version of the
database in each installation ?
1) Do not interact with database directly (i.e. access thru
separate web service)
2) Manual inspection
3) Row in settings table
4) Automated database versioning tool

Level 2
Test Automation
Manual
Tests
Execute Tests
Test Pyramid
Generate Reports
Pass, Fail, Skip

Test Automation
xUnit Selenium / Webdriver
Junit, TestNG, Nunit,
PHPUnit, QTUnit, WatiN / Watir
PyUnit, Test::Unit,
SoapUI
MSTest
TestPartner
GoogleTest
VisualAssert
Database
DBUnit, TSQLUnit

Level 3
Continuous Integration

What is CI ?
Continuous vs Continual
CI is a practice
Broken build is priority #1 for all.
No Commits on broken build.
No Commit and Dash.
A CI Server is a build scheduler
and traffic cop
Scheduled CRON job
Event Triggers
External Triggers

CI Servers
Commercial Open Source
Thoughtworks Jenkins
CruiseControl, Go Hudson
Atlassian Tinderbox
Bamboo
CDash
UrbanCode
Apache
Anthill Pro
Gump
Microsoft
TFS
Continuum
Jet Brains
Team City
Electric Cloud
Electric Commander
MaestroDev

Build
Dependency Management
Resource Management
Configuration
App Data
Compile & Link

Test
Build Test Classes
Execute Tests
Generate report

Advanced Test
Code Coverage
Instrument application code
Execute with coverage runner
Test Suites (fast, unit, integ, smoke…)
Multiple reports
Separate coverage reports (unit/integ)
Aggregated coverage reports

Package
Generate deployable artifact
ZIP
Exe
MSI
JAR
WAR
EAR
RPM

Deploy
IIS
SCP
MSI
Tomcat
Embedded (jetty)
External (cargo)

Verify
Acceptance Tests
Functional Tests
System Tests
Capacity Tests

User Poll 5
Does your company have a dedicated
QA department ?
1) Yes
2) No

Analyze
Static Code Analysis
Standards Compliance
Customized rules
Dependency analysis
Complexity analysis

Source Analysis
Dynamic
Code Coverage
Coberatura, Emma,Clover, Ncover, MSTest, CoverMe,
JSCover, …
Static
Coding standards
Sonar
PMD, CPD, Checkstyle, xDepend
Findbugs, CRAP4J, FxCop, StyleCop, Lint, …
CodeCity, JNCSS

Advanced CI
Multiple environments
Integration
QA
Staging
Production
Virtualized Environments
Clone as necessary
Event Trigger
SCM Hook
ALM Integration
Report build status for code change committed against feature
requirement

Agile Release Maturity
Continuous Delivery
Release Automation
Continuous Integration
Test Automation
Build Automation
Source Control

Level 4
Release Automation
Push button release to production
Deploy artifact promoted from CI
Update target database
Configure environment settings
Environment agnostic

User Poll 6
Does your company have a dedicated
Release/Configuration Management
Team ?
1) Yes
2) No

Level 5
Continuous Delivery

Archive
Repository of Release artifacts
Store multiple versions of artifacts
Deploy versions directly from repository

Artifact Repository
Servers
Nexus by Sonotype
Artifactory by Jfrog
Archiva by Apache

Publish
Push to production
Release Automation

User Poll 7
How long does it take to push a new
release to production in your company?
1) A few hours
2) The whole weekend
3) About a week
4) A month
5) I’ll tell you when we finish

User Poll 8
How many people are involved in a
typical release at your company?
1) 1
2) 2-3
3) 4-7
4) 9 or more
5) All hands on deck

Advanced CD
Auto Trace Documentation
Full circle document trace
Define / Update Story
Define / Update Task
Commit code for task
Build job pass /fail
Build, Test, Package, Deploy, Verify, Analyze, Archive, Publish

Agile Lifecyle Management
(ALM)
Jira +Grasshopper Rally
Velocity Platform VersionOne
TeamForge HP
Team Foundation Server Serena
IBM

Agile Release Maturity
Continuous Delivery
Release Automation
Continuous Integration
Test Automation
Build Automation
Source Control

Agile Release Maturity

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References
about Release Management and Continuous Delivery
Books
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Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and
Deployment Automation
http://www.amazon.com/Continuous-Delivery-Deployment-Automation-Addison-
Wesley/dp/0321601912/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1337550162&sr=8-1
Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk
http://www.amazon.com/Continuous-Integration-Improving-Software-
Reducing/dp/0321336380/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1337550162&sr=8-3
Recipes for Continuous Database Integration
http://www.amazon.com/Recipes-Continuous-Database-Integration-
ebook/dp/B000RH0EI4/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&qid=1337550162&sr=8-14
Configuration Management Best Practices: Practical Methods that Work in
the Real World
http://www.amazon.com/Configuration-Management-Best-Practices-
Practical/dp/0321685865/ref=sr_1_12?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337799141&sr=1
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Enterprise Release Management: Agile Delivery of a Strategic Change
Portfolio
http://www.amazon.com/Enterprise-Release-Management-Strategic-
Portfolio/dp/1608071685/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337799413&sr=1-
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