Test patterns for continuous delivery

Here is the deck from a presentation at Agile Development Conference East, November 2013. I presented test layering (this is the key and it was a long discussion), and four patterns — Centralized, Distributed, Review branch, MAXOS. The presentation was described as “thought provoking” by an audience member. I think that my Continuous presentations have finally achieved a pacing that works for an enterprise audience.

I contrasted MAXOS to SAFe for large systems, and we got some advice from an audience member who had worked in a MAXOS process at Amazon. He emphasized the motivation that a developer has to think about testing and quality if the developer has responsibility for pushing releases, and responding to production errors. We also got some advice from an audience member who worked at Dell about the value of SAFe for building embedded systems that assembla hardware and software on a periodic cadence. Otherwise, I think I made my point that SAFe is not a best practice.