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Use this Super Simple Template to Learn How to Implement CI/CD in Your Agile Team.

Often, I see confusion surrounding the integration of Agile Development with a CI/CD pipeline.

This illustration isn’t merely a CI/CD workflow, but an agile development process harmoniously intertwined with CI/CD flow. It is just a baseline diagram and the tools/technology used here are examples – feel free to replace them with equivalent tools or technology that suits your team’s preferences and requirements.

πŸ‘‰ Let the Product Owner kick-off by crafting engaging user stories.

πŸ‘‰ Have your development team spring into action, bringing these stories to life with tools like Jira/Rally.

Utilize Slack/Team, GitHub/Bitbucket/ Integration to:
β€’ Promote transparency and collaboration.
β€’ Enable continuous integration.
β€’ Catch bugs early.
β€’ Support frequent releases and continuous testing.

Harness the power of SonarQube and DevOps to:
β€’ Conduct static code analysis.
β€’ Trigger builds.
β€’ Provide insightful feedback.

Implement Unit Tests and Code Coverage with JaCoCo and JUnit:
β€’ Use Jenkins and Maven for build and deployment.
β€’ Strive for 100% unit test execution success.
β€’ Maintain at least 80% code coverage.
β€’ Eliminate critical defects/vulnerabilities.

Master Testing and Quality Assurance by:
β€’ Using Selenium for regression and UAT tests.
β€’ Relying on Nexus/Artifactory for Binary Repo.

Enhance Security and Infrastructure Management:
Conduct routine security scans with Qualys.
Employ Terraform and Ansible for infrastructure management.

If you’re looking for ways to improve your software development process, CI/CD is definitely worth considering.

Here are some additional tips for implementing CI/CD:
Start small. Don’t try to implement CI/CD for your entire codebase all at once.
Start with a small project and then gradually expand your CI/CD pipeline as your needs grow.
Get buy-in from your team. CI/CD can be a big change for your team, so it’s important to get buy-in from everyone involved.

Make sure that your team understands the benefits of CI/CD and is willing to put in the effort to make it work.

Automate as much as possible. The more you can automate, the more efficient your CI/CD pipeline will be. Look for opportunities to automate manual tasks, such as building, testing, and deploying code.

Strive to reach these key milestones of automation:

πŸ§ͺ Unit Test Execution Automation
πŸ› οΈ Build Automation
πŸ“ˆ Code Coverage Check Automation
πŸ“Š Code Quality Check Automation
πŸ”’ Security Scanning Automation
πŸš€ Automated Deployments
πŸ’¬ Feedback Automation to Production Teams
πŸ’Ύ Binary Storage Automation into Repo Manager
πŸ—οΈ Infrastructure Setup Automation

Credits: Babar Shahzad

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