Development Process

The development process describes all the main activities related to Sitecore developers on the project.

🧑‍💻 Local

Developer creates a branch in accordance to the branching strategy, then adds commits with code changes, unit tests, integration tests, and finally opens a pull request.

🧪 Quality Gate 1

The code complies with the code convention, code standards, passed unit tests.

📝 Code Review

Development team reviews and discusses code changes and approves it in case of there are no issues.

🧪 Quality Gate 2

The coding style matches project guidelines.

⚙️ Integration

Continuous Integration (CI) builds the code, performs unit tests, generates a code coverage report, run static code analysis.

🧪 Quality Gate 3

Code is successfully built, passed all unit tests, complies with code coverage agreements and static code metrics.

🤖 AQA

Continuous Deployment (CD) spin up an ephemeral environment, deploys the code and run integration tests to verify changes on the remote server.

🧪 Quality Gate 4

The build is successfully deployed and passed all white box automation tests.

👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 QA

Developer merges the Pull Request and CD deploys build on QA environment. QA team performs manual testing.

🧪 Quality Gate 5

The build complies with quality criteria verified by QA team.

👍 UAT

Lead developer cuts a release branch. CD deploys build on UAT environment. Client performs user acceptance testing.

🧪 Quality Gate 6

The build passes user acceptance testing and other type of testing, which may include performance, stress, security testing etc. in the environment similar to production.