Agile Continuous Integration, Testing and Deployment (CI, Refactoring, GIT & More)

This skills-centric course is about 50% hands-on lab and 50% lecture, designed to train attendees in core testing skills, coupling the most current, effective techniques with the soundest industry practices. Working in a hands-on learning environment, guided by our expert team, attendees will explore:

• Agile Fundamentals
• Agile Rationale and Concepts
• The Agile Approach
• Agile Iterative Development
• Agile Architecting
• Prioritizing and Planning
• Building
• Automated Testing
• The ROI of TDD
• Git Basics
• Git Branching
• Git Flow
• Git in Continuous Deployment
• Distributed Git
• Working with Git Tools
• Improving Code Quality Through Refactoring
• Refactoring Design Patterns
• Continuous Integration
• Agile Migration Patterns
• Coding Practices
• Source Control
• Pair Programming and Code Reviews

This is an introductory and beyond level course, geared for experienced Test Engineers, Quality Assurance Engineers, and their management who have prior knowledge of basic testing practices.
 

Course Agenda Session: Agile Fundamentals Lesson: Agile Rationale and Concepts

• Reducing Risk Through Agility
• The Discipline of Timeboxing
• Incremental Delivery and Evaluation
• Agile Method: Scrum

Lesson: The Agile Approach

• Agile Software Development Manifesto
• The Agile Principles
• Identifying Features
• Managing Features
• Communication Dynamics

Lesson: Agile Iterative Development

• Iterative Approaches
• Phased Iterative Development
• Iterating
• Feasibility & Planning
• Development
• Adaptation & Deployment

Lesson: Agile Architecting

• The Agile Mindset
• SOLID Principles
• Microservices
• Versioning strategies for evolution
• Evolving to Continuous Deployment

Lesson: Prioritizing and Planning

• Features and Backlogs
• Feature-Driven Development (FDD) Process
• Prioritizing Features
• Release Planning
• Assigning Features to Iterations

Lesson: Building

• Typical Continuous Integration Process
• CI Server
• Automate Source Code Management
• Automated Build Process
• Automated Testing
• Automated Deployment

Lesson: The ROI of TDD

• The Process of TDD
• Automation and Coverage
• Working with Coverage Analysis

Session: Working with Git Lesson: Git Basics

• Introduction to Git
• Git Repository
• Recording Changes to the Repository
• Viewing the Commit History
• Undoing Things
• Tagging

Lesson: Git Branching

• Branching and Merging
• Branch Management
• Branching Workflows
• Remote Branches
• Rebasing

Lesson: Git Flow

• Branching Models
• Git Flow Branching Model
• Installing git-flow
• Using git-flow subcommands

Lesson: Git in Continuous Deployment

• The ROI of Continuous Deployment
• CD Strategies
• Git Flow in CD
• Branching and Merging in Git Flow with CD

Lesson: Distributed Git

• Distributed Workflows
• Contributing to a Project
• Maintaining a Project

Lesson: Git Tools

• Revision Selection
• Interactive Staging
• Rewriting History
• Debugging with Git (bisect)
• Submodules
• Subtree Merging

Session: Improving Code Quality Through Refactoring Lesson: Refactoring

• Refactoring and Testing
• Suggested Refactoring
• The Impact of Refactoring

Lesson: Advanced Refactoring

• Code That Feels Wrong
• Refactoring to Design Patterns
• Abstract Factory Design Patterns
• Adapter Design Patterns
• Strategy Design Patterns

Lesson: Continuous Integration

• Typical Continuous Integration Process
• CI Server
• Automate Source Code Management
• Automate Build Process
• Automate Testing
• Automate Deployment

Lesson: The Bottom Line

• Agile Migration Patterns
• Extending the Migration
• Coding Practices
• Source Control
• Pair Programming and Code Reviews
• Continuous Integration
• Legacy Code