IBM® DevOps Solution for Shift Left


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What is Shift Left

"Shift Left" is a key theme in DevOps where activities normally performed late in a development lifecycle, such as integration testing, deployment, acceptance testing, and feedback from operations and customers are performed earlier ("left") in the lifecycle.

"Shift Left" lets you find critical defects earlier, while they are cheaper to fix and before they put your schedule at risk.  Similarly, the ability to deploy and get feedback from operations and end users lets you get earlier value from your investments and steer development to respond rapidly to that feedback.

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What Shifts Left

"Shift left" starts with doing integration testing earlier using practices described in this solution.  This in turn leads to earlier deployment, acceptance testing, and feedback from operations and customers. Check out this video for a great explanation on continuous integration testing:

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Roadmap to this Configuration

Learn more about the Benefits of shifting left and Adopting this solution.

Then learn how to shift left by reviewing:

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