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Infrastructure as Code: benefits & tools

Apiumhub

Bugs and failures happen because teams build against a staging or development environment and then find upon deployment that the production environment is out of sync, which leads to a time-consuming investigation of why and what is missing. Environment drift becomes an expensive business waste. Documentation.

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7 Business Drivers for More Software Engineering Excellence

Accenture

We’ve known for a long time, before Agile was even named, that there are good practices the development team should do. They should test their code, they should review their code, they should integrate with other teams building programs, they should work with the business and make sure that we’re building the right thing.

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Lean Software Development: The Backstory

LeanEssays

To counter sequential processes and the long integration and defect removal phase, agile software development practices focused on fast feedback cycles in these areas: Test-driven development: Start by writing tests (think of them as executable specifications) and then write the code to pass the tests.