Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation

Chapter 13. Managing Components and Dependencies

Introduction

Continuous delivery provides the ability to release new, working versions of your software several times a day. That means you have to keep your application releasable at all times. But what if you are engaged in a major refactoring or adding complex new functionality? Branching in version control might seem to be the solution to this problem. However, we feel strongly that this is the wrong answer.¹ This chapter describes how to keep your application releasable at all times, despite being under constant change. One of the key techniques for this is componentization of larger applications, so we will treat componentization, including building and managing large projects with multiple ...