Continuous Delivery
The premises of the following services are:
- You always want your software to be in a shippable state
- You want maintainable software
- You want to minimize the possibility of human error
- You want to find out about errors or bugs as soon as they are coded – as this reduces cost significantly.
The idea behind “Continuous Delivery” is that your software is always ready to “go out the door”. Changes can be (and therefore are) pushed to production within minutes of the change to the code-base. You developers also write ‘tests’ – literally tests that the build server will execute every time it sees code changed, to ensure that no tests are failing – which prevents code changes from unexpected breaking the expected/existing functionality of a program.
Build Server
You need to understand the importance of implementing a Continuous Integration (CI) system to streamline your development process. At New Image Solutions, we can help you determine the best methods of setting up a build server for your organization. This critical component of your CI system is the foundation that watches over your code repository, ensuring that all code changes are automatically built, tested, and deployed across your different environments. It runs all unit tests, UI tests, smoke tests, and other necessary checks to ensure that your code is of the highest quality. Additionally, it manages the entire development to deployment pipeline, ensuring that all connections to databases and other external systems are active and functional. With our expertise and knowledge, we can help you implement a robust build server that integrates seamlessly into your development process, allowing you to focus on delivering high-quality software to your customers.
Unit Testing
We understand the importance of ensuring that your code performs the intended logic operations. Unit testing is a method that allows developers to verify that their code functions correctly. With unit tests, you can cover any type of code, including calculations, conversions, and expected output, among others. Unit tests are fast, flexible, and can be automated, allowing you to test your code quickly and efficiently. In fact, some organizations use thousands or tens-of-thousands of unit tests to ensure their application is behaving as expected. At New Image Solutions, we can help you implement a robust unit testing framework that integrates seamlessly into your development process, ensuring that your code performs as intended and meets your quality standards.
UI Testing
At New Image Solutions, we can help you automate your application testing through the actual end-user interface, allowing computers to execute common scenarios and bugs whenever changes are made. This eliminates manual testing and improves the accuracy and consistency of your testing efforts, saving you time and resources. Our team can guide you on software and server solutions, what to test, how to test it, and more, ensuring that your application performs as intended and freeing up your time and resources for other important tasks.
Automated Deployment
Are you tired of spending countless hours manually copying files to production, only to worry about missing a critical file that could break your updated application? Do you dread searching through hundreds of files to check their last-modified date, and then placing them in their appropriate folder, nested five levels deep? At New Image Solutions, we understand your frustration. That’s why we can help you set up a build server that automates the deployment process, eliminating the need for manual file transfers. With just a few simple commands, you can move your application from one environment to the next with consistency and reproducibility, saving your team valuable time and effort. Our team can help you select the right build-server software and set up a deployment process that integrates seamlessly into your development workflow, ensuring that your application is deployed quickly and without error. Say goodbye to the manual, tedious, and error-prone process and hello to reliable, automated deployment.
Development Environment Management
Repository Creation and Management
Access Controls
Cloud Cost Management
So much more…
The aforementioned points are VERY brief conceptual overviews of concepts that will REVOLUTIONIZE your developers workflows. Be prepared and be warned. Yes, it will take time and some costs to implement, but the Return On Investment is very short – and you will have MUCH happier developers. Please contact New Image Solutions today to find out more!