Fail Fast - Fail Often: Enhancing Agile Methodology using Dynamic Regression, Code Bisector and Code Quality in Continuous Integration (CI)

Abstract

Agile practices are receiving considerable attention from industry as an alternative to traditional software development approaches. However, there are a number of challenges in combining Agile [2] with Test-driven development (TDD) [10] practices, cloud deployments, continuous integration (CI), non-stop performance, load, security and accessibly testing. From these challenges; Continuous Integration is a relatively an approach widely discussed and practiced in software testing. This paper describes an approach for improved Agile Methodology using Code Quality, Code Bisector and Dynamic Regression in Continuous Integration. The set of tools used for this analysis, design and development are Jenkins, Robot Framework [4], Perforce and Git.