A Short tale of a Software Product Development

• Teams:
• Application Architecture:
• Delivery Time: 1 year
• Approach:
  1. Plan:
     • Since we are not geographically nearby, and we know requirements, lets work in isolation
     • Timeline: lets combine our work after 3 months and all of us lets follow the specifications,
     • Collaboration:
       • Lets use Git, and Create 4 branches
         • Mobile_REL_1
         • Web_REL_1
         • API_REL_1
         • DB_REL_1
     • Chances of this approach to work is very much less, because we are doing big bang integration
       • 3 teams are working on their own for 3 months
       • After 3 months when they merge the code to common branch to build the complete application,it will be error prone.
       • There will be lot of bugs and we will make fixes (mostly workarounds) to make application work. This lead to non Quality Product.
  2. Better Plan:
     • Problem in earlier approach: Integrating the work of multiple teams after 3 months and we see surprises
     • Solution: Do this integration daily and let things fail in the begining itself and let our leads be aware about it
     • This is basically referred as Continuous Integration
     • Our plan is to execute the tests by Richards team automatically every day to give a quality report (Selenium, RPA, Postman)
     • Get the Quality Report Everyday
     • Problem with above approach:
       • What will happen if some one from RAM’s team has submitted a wrong commit which caused all of the failures, In these cases, we have to 1 more day
       • Let Developers run the tests locally and ensure they are doing the right commit or enforce.
       • We use day builds and night builds
  3. So which Software to be used to Do this CI/CD Activity
     • OPtion-1: Jenkins
     • Option-2: Azure DevOps (VSTS)