This is quite a weird concept to get your head around: How can you measure effective engineering, and more than that, how can you measure best practices? There's another often-asked question: what has this got to do with DevOps or CD? We'll look at the former in a moment, but now let's focus on the latter.
Let's take two scenarios:
- Your current software-engineering process is very waterfall and you have a vast amount of manual testing to validate your code just before it gets shipped—which happens every 3-6 months—and build in a buffer for bug fixing
- Your current software-engineering process is pretty agile and follows (mostly) industry best practices, however as there is plenty of time between releases you can sometimes let technical debt slip (including test automation) as there will be time to...