Software Delivery 101

Question 1

Environments

Answer 1

• used when the same application is deployed to different environments.
• they are independence and isolation from one another
• they undertake different kinds of activities in each without one affecting the other

Question 2

development environment

Answer 2

where developers make the original change to the codes

Question 3

production environment

Answer 3

where end users actually use the application

Question 4

Build (Integration)

Answer 4

combine the completed work from all the project’s developers and build them in a single, consistent environment (rather than from individual developer machine)

Question 5

build environment

Answer 5

where to conduct the build, run the built application, and conduct the basic forms of testing

Question 6

test environment

Answer 6

• where to test the application’s behavior
• a project may have more than one test environment, with each environment serving different purposes/reflecting different stages.
• a very common strategy is QA (test) and Pre-production (or UAT, or Staging)

Question 7

QA (Test) environment

Answer 7

• a mirror environment meant to mimic production as precisely as possible
• used by testers, QA analysts or other testing professionals to perform many forms of functional and non-functional testing.
• Regression testing takes places in the QA Environment

Question 8

Pre-production / UAT / Staging

Answer 8

• last post for releases before Production

- the environment might be exposed externally to Customers or Stakeholders for Acceptance testing

Question 9

UAT

Answer 9

User Acceptance Testing

Actual users test the software to determine if it does what it was designed to do in real-world situations, validating changes made and assessing adherence to their organization’s business requirements.

Question 10

Software Delivery Pipeline

Answer 10

DEV –> CI –> QA –> UAT –> PROD

Question 11

CICD

Answer 11

Continuous Integration and Development