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#CODE REVIEWS #CONTINUOUS DEPLOYMENT #CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION #LOCAL DEVELOPMENT #TEAM EFFECTIVENESS #UNIT TESTS

An Effective Team? What’s the bare minimum you should be doing? Tick all these boxes and you are on you way to being an effective team. If you’re missing any - you probably aren’t.


Continuous Integration (CI)

  • Changes are merged back to the main branch as often as possible
  • Changes are validated by doing a build and running tests

Continuous Deployment (CD)

  • Code is deployed to automatically
  • You have an automated release process
  • You can deploy at any time

Unit Tests

  • You have metrics that measure your code coverage/unit test quality
  • They are run against the code automatically
  • You can’t merge unless the tests pass

Code Reviews

  • You have a working code review process
  • You can’t merge without code being reviewed (properly reviewed!)

Running locally

  • You can debug and test either the whole or parts of the system locally
  • “Our system is too complicated to run on a developer’s machine” - is not an acceptable statement

There’s plenty of other stuff you can and should be doing, but for me the above is the bare minimum you can get away with.

#CODE REVIEWS #CONTINUOUS DEPLOYMENT #CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION #LOCAL DEVELOPMENT #TEAM EFFECTIVENESS #UNIT TESTS

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