CHAPTER 27

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Deployment

We have come a long way toward the implementation of a continuous delivery process. We looked at unit testing in Chapter 16 and we went through other types of automated testing in Chapter 22. We covered build automation and running tests on the build server in Chapter 26. So now it is time to complete our work and enable a completely automated delivery process.

In this chapter we focus on application deployment and running automated tests on dedicated test servers. Figure 27-1 shows the overall build-deploy-test process and we will extend the default template by adding the deployment and test on test server activities with ...

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