The maintenance process

Every time you change code, you introduce risk. For example, a bug fix could introduce a new bug. To mitigate this risk, we need to follow a process. A suggested process could be the following steps:

1. Identify: Identify the problem or the change that needs to be made.
2. Inspect: Inspect the test coverage and how well your code is covered by tests. The better it’s covered, the more likely you are to detect any introduced bugs or other issues.
3. Plan: Plan the change. How are you going to make it? What tests are you going to write? What tests are you going to run?
4. Implement: Implement the change.
5. Verify: Verify that the change works as expected. Run the tests, run the application, check the logs, etc.
6. Integrate: This is about ensuring any change you make in a branch is merged into the main branch.
7. Release/deploy the change: You want to make sure the end customer can leverage the benefit of this change. For that...