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Mobile DevOps

By : Rohin Tak, Jhalak Modi
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Mobile DevOps

By: Rohin Tak, Jhalak Modi

Overview of this book

Today's world is all about perfection, and there are hundreds of applications that are released each day out of which only a few succeed. Making sure that the app looks, performs, and behaves as expected is one of the biggest challenge developers face today. The main goal of this book is to teach developers to implement DevOps to build, test, and deliver. This book will teach you to implement Mobile DevOps at every stage of your application's lifecycle with Visual Studio and Xamarin Mobile Lifecycle solutions. Later, it will also show you how to leverage Mobile Center's continuous integration and automated testing to develop a high-quality applications. Next, you’ll see how to mobilize your on-premises data to the cloud and increase your productivity with code reuse. Finally, you’ll discover how to find and fix bugs beforehand, improving the efficiency of your application while it is being developed. By the end of this book, you will be well-versed with Mobile DevOps techniques, delivering high quality and high performance mobile apps.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Source code management

In the mobile DevOps life cycle, one of the first phases is application development. Coding is one of the most important parts of the development life cycle, and managing that code is even more important in the long term.

When developers are continuously coding an application, managing that code becomes troublesome if not done properly. As the development progresses, code merges are more frequent and, with time, the development team grows quickly and more people need to integrate code with other developers.

Source code management becomes tricky and a very important part to focus on in order to ensure seamless development and code integration.

Need for source code management

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