June 2014
Intermediate to advanced
254 pages
6h 2m
English
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Chapter 9. Feature Toggle
Continuous deployment is the process of testing, integrating, and deploying software in rapid cycles in order to deliver bug fixes and new features to customers as quickly as possible. It gained popular acceptance as a cornerstone of extreme programming and agile development and is very popular among Software as a Service providers.
A feature toggle system allows you to integrate features into your codebase even before they’re finished and ready to release. During development, the features are toggled off by default. In order to turn them on, you must enable them manually. Using this method, you can deploy unfinished or untested changes into your production system without interfering with the user experience.
Feature toggles can allow software integration cycles that run in weeks, days, or even hours, as opposed to months or years. They are an essential component in a broader continuous integration system.
Feature toggles are popular in the startup community but have gained widespread acceptance in the enterprise, including larger companies such as Facebook, Google, Yahoo, and Adobe.
Organizing Features
Deciding how to organize features begins with deciding what exactly constitutes a feature. Once you figure that out, you should also decide how you’re going to classify or group features together.
Scale of a Feature
“Feature” can mean almost anything, ranging from a new page or route to an
additional option on a select element. Deciding how to classify the scope ...
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