Rob Lambert - Moving To Weekly Releases - EuroSTAR 2013
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The document discusses a transition to weekly releases at NewVoiceMedia by adopting agile practices and breaking down barriers between teams. Key strategies included emphasizing continuous testing by everyone, automating checks, and focusing on data-driven insights. While the changes were successful, there is acknowledgment that further improvements are necessary.
Rob Lambert - Moving To Weekly Releases - EuroSTAR 2013
- 1. Moving To Weekly Releases Rob Lambert, NewVoiceMedia www.eurostarconferences.com @esconfs #esconfs
- 3. Deploy ? Don’tdeploy? Go? No go? Have we done enough testing?
- 5. Image courtesy of Gothia Towers website
- 7. How did we make the change? We created a Vision
- 8. The Vision Weekly Releases 1. Adopt Agile 2. Break down barriers between teams 3. Prioritise the work 4. Everyone tests. Test all the time.
- 9. Everyone tests. Test all the time. Some of the ways we did it.
- 10. 1. Removed the notion of testers being the centre of the universe We are important. But no more than others. Instead – put “testing” in the centre.
- 11. 2. Focussed on automating the checks BDD TDD CI Selenium
- 12. 3. Ate our own product Pre-production testing Image from Zen Sutherland “Gravel dogfood leaf" July 16, 2009 via Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution.
- 13. 4. Tested after releasing TRUST Monitoring Used it ourselves
- 14. 5. Emphasised discovery over assumptions ET What is the system telling us?
- 15. 6. Became “one” with data NewRelic Papertrail Firebug StatsHat Gource Gecko Board
- 16. 7. Learned. Then learned some more. Chances to learn: • Every release • Every build • Every check-in • Every test • Every customer contact • Every bug
- 17. 8. Dealt with fires Kept putting them out. But kept pushing on. “If it hurts. Keep doing it.”
- 18. Did it work? Yes. But we still have some work to do.
- 19. Questions Where you can find me: Web – www.newvoicemedia.com Blog - www.thesocialtester.co.uk Twitter - @rob_lambert My book – Remaining Relevant - http://thesocialtester.co.uk/remainingrelevant/