DevOps: A Software Architect’s Perspective

5. Building and Testing

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.

—Burt Rutan

5.1 Introduction

Although architects like to focus on design and implementation, the infrastructure that is used to support the development and deployment process is important for a number of reasons. This infrastructure should support the following requirements:

Team members can work on different versions of the system concurrently.

Code developed by one team member does not overwrite the code developed by another team member by accident.

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