How to do QA and test in Azure (4)

·         Auto-deployment Tool is very important

o    Save lots of time, test quickly

o    Confidence in testing environment, focus on features

o    You also gain confidence in the deployment tool, which allows you to deploy more often, and faster.

·         Small Release, More Often Release

o    Integrate customer feedback into bug fixing

o    Drive better customer experience

o    Drive cost-per-release down

o    Release often. How often? One release every month/week/day ?

·         "One week" worked for some web sites.

·         In reality, this should simply be as low as is practical and useful for the business needs of the group.

·         We found that the lower we could get this, the more flexibility we had in getting changes out to prod quickly and reliably, getting better customer experiences faster. 

·         In particular, get really fast at verifying that things that haven't changed aren't broken.

·         This will really help with testing things like adopting new versions of the SDK.

o    More-often-and-quicker release is enabled by

·         Good auto-deployment tools.

·         Well documented deployment and troubleshooting processes.