The adoption of Continuous Integration and the use of agile and mobile DevOps cultures are to thank for the recent improvements in mobile workflow.
by Ville-Veikko Helppi· Dec. 17, 16 · Mobile Zone
The mobile workflow has been improving a lot. If there would be only two things to thank for this achievement, no doubt those would be the Continuous Integration adoption as a part of the mobile development workflow and use of agile and mobile DevOps cultures inside organizations. In these, automation is the key for successful app development, testing, deployment, and eventually monitoring running in the user context.Mobile app quality has become a crucial factor for success in the mobile ecosystem. From indie developers to SMB-sized app and game studios and larger corporations pushing apps for users in various app sub-verticals (banks, retail, insurance, travel, and dozens of others), they all understand what gaining a five-star feedback for their app means.Let's take a look at what mobile Continuous Integration can contribute.Historically, automation has been one of the cornerstones (and yes, selling points) for Continuous Integration, and today Continuous Integration is very much the most important core pieces of most agile, mobile, and DevOps-driven development efforts and processes. In fact, the agile methods and mobile DevOps approaches have put Continuous Integration in its position and it has worked both ways making mobile CI popular among the agile organizations.The use of automation is already in an epicenter of how developers build their software. Typically, companies rely on Continuous Integration tools (like Jenkins) that bring clarity for development, testing, and deployment.In a nutshell, Continuous Integration provides a workflow to help manage code and its regressions and then enable efficient testing of app builds. With this sort of agile approach, continuous testing can also happen every time code changes in repository and build gets automatically deployed.
|
