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12 - Continuous Development

Learning Objectives:

In this module, you will learn to:

• Describe how continuous development helps to catch errors sooner in the software lifecycle
• Describe strategies for performing quality-assurance on software as and after it is delivered
• Understand how continuous delivery can work with or without TDD (test driven development) as a quality assurance strategy

Lecture Slides:

• Continuous Development Slides PDF, PPT

Important Dates:

• Individual Project 3 Due Wednesday, Oct 21, 2026 by 5pm (ET)
• Revised Project Plan Due Friday Oct 30, 2026 by 5pm (ET)

Activity

• CI/CD Pipeline for GameNite - To be released by Nov 1st

Resources

• Kent Beck on Software Engineering Daily discussing Facebook Engineering and TDD
• “Case Study 4: The $440 Million Software Error at Knight Capital”, Henrico Dolfing
• Software Engineering at Google especially the following chapters
  • Chapter 23: Continuous Integration
  • Chapter 24: Continuous Delivery
• “Rapid release at massive scale” by Chuck Rossi
• “Continuous Deployment of Mobile Software at Facebook”, Chuck Rossi et al