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Category Archives: Continuous Integration
What is Modern Software Engineering?
I have a new book out. It’s called “Modern Software Engineering” and I have been working on it for the past few years. The ideas in it grew out of a growing realisation that the way that I approach software … Continue reading
CI and the Change Log
I get in to debates about the relative merits of “Continuous Integration (and Delivery)” vs those of “Feature Branching” on a fairly regular basis. A common push-back against CI, from the feature-branchers, is “you can’t maintain a clean change-log”. I … Continue reading
Three Distinct Mind-sets in TDD
I have blogged about TDD before. I think that it is one of the most important tools in improving the design of our software, as well as increasing the quality of the systems that we create. TDD provides valuable, fine-grained … Continue reading
A Few Thoughts on Feature Flags
I confess that “Feature Flags” make me a bit nervous. Despite this I think them a useful and important tool in our ability to achieve Continuous Integration. So why do they make me nervous? Well, they are a form of … Continue reading
Continuous Integration and Feature Branching
Recently I spoke at the Pipeline Conference in London. I gave a talk on “Optimising Continuous Delivery” to a bunch of people who were self-selected as interested in Continuous Delivery, most of them would already consider themselves CD practitioners, Pipeline … Continue reading