The Agile Build Pipeline: A Tester's Lessons Learned

When Insurance Australia Group wanted to launch a new online car insurance service, complex technical issues called for early integration and strong testing capabilities. The project was distributed across multiple partners, each working on different horizontal components and employing different development approaches. In this environment, it was critical to continuously integrate the software and test-test-test. Kristan Vingrys shares his experience establishing a build pipeline that started with pre-commit tests and ended in the pre-production environment. The agile build pipeline often enabled changes to go into production the same day the code was written and with high confidence that the new build would not cause any regressions. Significantly, this build pipeline approach supported going live only two weeks after the last feature was completed in a six-month development effort. Join Kristan as he describes how the build pipeline evolved over time, the issues encountered along the way, and the contribution testers made to the effort.