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Continuous Testing in a seasonal business

Continuous Testing in a seasonal business

For many countries around the world, the heaviest retail season is already starting. In the U.S., Black Friday, the heaviest day for brick-and-mortar retail sales, and Cyber Monday, when online retailers get the most traffic, are almost upon us. The delivery teams responsible for the software that powers those retail engines must be busy.

Or… are they on a steady cadence, practicing continuous delivery, and not feeling stressed? Teams that continually release small changes to production should be able to do so in a sustainable way. Hmm.

Most business domains revolve around some kind of seasonal pressure. Some industries have a big trade fair, where everyone shows off their new product. All development is aimed at that big event. Tax preparation products will be used more heavily when people have to file their returns. Government regulations may change annually, requiring software updates to remain compliant.

How do teams achieve continuous delivery, including testing at all parts of the DevOps continuous loop, with seasonal spikes in demand? Please join me along with  , ,  ,  and  as we share our own experiences with these challenges in a webinar panel hosted by , Thursday, 14 November. We hope you can join us live and bring your questions. Please to attend or to get the link to the recording after the event.

Webinar panel discussion, 11 September, 1:00 PM Eastern

We’re adding webinars to our Testing in DevOps community learning opportunities! Our first one is a panel discussion with awesome leading practitioners , ,  , and I will also join! Many thanks to for hosting the webinar (they host this site as well).

So what will we talk about? As many of our guest posts here have pointed out, DevOps is about  the whole team  – including operations specialists – working together to deliver value to customers frequently, without drama or stress. It’s that continual loop: together we identify the most valuable capability to delivery next.

In the webinar, we’ll talk about how we build and test it, test and build it, together. We have created a pipeline to deploy it to production, together. We’ll probably get into topics such as monitoring and observability to learn how customers use the product and respond to problems, and get ideas for the next valuable feature slice to build. We will answer your questions!

For more details and to register, please go to my (I am too lazy to copy it all over here!)

We welcome your questions in advance, just tweet them to @! Or, simply ask on the day in the Zoom chat. We look forward to an insightful and fun discussion!