DevOps.... CI/CD

Every software development needs coding; without it, nothing can be developed. The quality of software depend on the way developer write code. It's an essential part of the system and the behavior of the system depends on it.  A small mistake in coding may make software vulnerable and unstable. Quality engineering works hard to find bugs to avoid potential problems with the software. They spend numerous hours and put tremendous effort into finding any problems with the software and reporting it to the developers. Cost of fixing the defects at various level. The Cost of fixing defects at latter stage increases exponentially, hence, you need more hours of QA Engineers and Developers to fix and run the entire release cycle again. If we can save some amount of time and effort from above, we can utilise resources in more productive way. Can we make sure code is better written, tightly secure, having no potential bug and right libraries ...

Many times people get confused with the terms as Release management and Release Engineering. They interchange both the terms and use it as the same. Release Management and Release Engineering looks to be similar but both their functions are completely different in implementation, however both serves the same purpose in bigger picture of Releases.

Tool development and adoption The current pace of software development cannot manage its speed without the automation. Automation is the most important element in order to achieve agility in delivery of the product. Every part of the software development life cycle needs tools to perform their action automatically. These phases could be coding, code review, build & deployment, environment management, resource assignment, notification and many others. There could be 2 options, which a team can opt for: Use a third party tool One can select the tools, which are available in market, either open-sourced or free. You can even buy enterprise solution if needed. Build an in-house tool Tool can be built or developed in-house for the consumption as well. Lets take look different aspects of choosing options