Winner of the 2011 Jolt Excellence Award ! Getting software released to users is often a
painful risky and time-consuming process.This groundbreaking new book sets out the principles
and technical practices that enable rapid incremental delivery of high quality valuable new
functionality to users. Through automation of the build deployment and testing process and
improved collaboration between developers testers and operations delivery teams can get
changes released in a matter of hours-sometimes even minutes-no matter what the size of a
project or the complexity of its code base. Jez Humble and David Farley begin by presenting the
foundations of a rapid reliable low-risk delivery process. Next they introduce the
"deployment pipeline " an automated process for managing all changes from check-in to release.
Finally they discuss the "ecosystem" needed to support continuous delivery from
infrastructure data and configuration management to governance. The authors introduce
state-of-the-art techniques including automated infrastructure management and data migration
and the use of virtualization. For each they review key issues identify best practices and
demonstrate how to mitigate risks. Coverage includes Automating all facets of building
integrating testing and deploying software Implementing deployment pipelines at team and
organizational levels Improving collaboration between developers testers and operations
Developing features incrementally on large and distributed teams Implementing an effective
configuration management strategy Automating acceptance testing from analysis to
implementation Testing capacity and other non-functional requirements Implementing continuous
deployment and zero-downtime releases Managing infrastructure data components and
dependencies Navigating risk management compliance and auditing Whether you're a developer
systems administrator tester or manager this book will help your organization move from idea
to release faster than ever-so you can deliver value to your business rapidly and reliably.
