Manual processes – a hypothetical scenario

Betty Sue is part of the QA department at Billy Bob's Machine Parts company. At Billy Bob's Machine Parts company, there is a mid-sized developer team. Eric, the lead developer, starts the manual release process on Thursday morning at the end of a quarter. It takes two days for Eric to finish the release cycle. Unfortunately, he is the only one who can do the release in the developer team. Eric runs all the tests on his local workstation and integrates emergency patches if necessary. Once Eric is done, he emails a ZIP file to Betty Sue in the QA department.

Betty Sue has a couple of QA engineers and starts the manual testing cycle for the new release on Monday morning. Betty notifies Eric that she ...

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