Continuous development processes

There are some processes that can greatly streamline your development and reduce a time in getting the application ready to be released or deployed to the production environment. They often have continuous in their name, and we will discuss the most important and popular ones in this section. It is important to highlight that they are strictly technical processes, so they are almost unrelated to project management technologies, although they can highly dovetail with the latter.

The most important processes we will mention are:

• Continuous integration

• Continuous delivery

• Continuous deployment

The order of listing is important because each one of them is an extension of the previous one. Continuous deployment could be simply considered even a variation of continuous delivery. We will discuss them separately anyway, because what is only a minor difference for one organization may be critical in others.

The fact that these are technical processes means that their implementation...