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Other cloud-centric teams at Microsoft, like Bing, Azure and Yammer, already do this kind of testing and continuous deployment.
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Continuous deployment looks to be the up-and-coming thing in software development. I got a survey about it in my email today as well.
I'm a one-man band when it comes to development, but I've always built new features on a test bed and converted the updated version to production when it was ready. I guess the idea now is to let automated testing handle the decision about when to put someting into production.
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Continuous deployment is the next step of continuous delivery: Every change that passes the automated tests is deployed to production automatically. Continuous deployment should be the goal of most companies that are not constrained by regulatory or other requirements.
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I'd prefer to include humans in the testing process myself, particularly humans who work for the client and pay my bills.