Progressive delivery and testing in practice

Today’s development process is widely based upon agile methodology. Implementation of feature flags is listed as one of DevOps best practices. Approaches to testing have changed a lot lately and only few dev teams are lucky enough to have dedicated tester/QA. Automated tests are good, but you cannot automate everything. Bugs are still existing, and testers must prioritise wisely. That’s why I think that progressive delivery with feature flags helps us on daily basis to work more efficient and to have control over our deliveries.

I would like to share how my team develops new features, tests them, and deliver them to production.

By working this way, we are: • Delivering features more rapidly • Having the flexibility to open features for specific segments • Reducing the number of bugs in production • Increasing customer satisfaction with increased delivery frequency • Reducing fear of change and stress related to deploying software • Responding quicker to changes