"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.
Hear from customers about their successes in adopting DevOps capabilities.
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: