The build that cried broken: Building trust in your continuous integration tests
Angie Jones explains how to build stability and credibility into your continuous integration tests so that your team is able to receive the fast feedback it needs for Agile development.
| Talk Title | The build that cried broken: Building trust in your continuous integration tests |
| Speakers | Angie Jones (Applitools) |
| Conference | O’Reilly Velocity Conference |
| Conf Tag | Build Resilient Distributed Systems |
| Location | London, United Kingdom |
| Date | October 18-20, 2017 |
| URL | Talk Page |
| Slides | Talk Slides |
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“The Boy Who Cried Wolf” is one of Aesop’s famous fables. As the story goes, a young shepherd-boy tricks villagers into thinking that a wolf was coming for their sheep. The boy got a reaction from the villagers the first three or four times he did this, but the villagers eventually became hip to his game and disregarded his future alarms. However, one day, a wolf really did come. When the boy tried to alert the villagers, none of them paid him any attention. The sheep, of course, perished. Many teams’ continuous integration builds have become just like this young shepherd-boy. They constantly cry “Broken! Broken!” and in a state of panic, team members assess the build. Yet, time and time again, they find that the application is working; it’s the tests that are faulty and giving false alarms. Eventually, having lost faith in what was supposed to be a very important indicator, no one pays attention to the alerts anymore. Join in to learn how to save the sheep. . .or in your case, the quality of your application. Angie Jones explains how to build stability and credibility into your continuous integration tests so that your team is able to receive the fast feedback it needs for Agile development.
