Chapter 10. Building, Baselining, and Release Deployment
In the last chapter, you saw how to integrate the changes produced from the various development teams. To make sure your system still works, you need to build and verify your software. If there is a problem during this stage, you can reject this build attempt, triage the problem, and work at resolving the issue. No other external organization will have been exposed to the problem because it would have still been using the previous configuration from your team. This verification step is needed before you can expose others to your software.
It's not just your customers you need to protect from these release candidates that do not achieve a certain quality level. Time is critical in the software ...
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