Using Automation to Keep Bugs Out of Production - Leon Helmus
Smash the Bug: Episode 41
Your host: Joseph Maxwell, Founder and CEO of SwiftOtter, Inc.
Special Guest: Leon Helmus, 6-Time Certified Senior Magento Developer
Show Notes
Leon Helmus has been around the block a few times. He’s gained a lot of experience with Magento 1 and Magento 2 in a relatively short amount of time, and with 6 Magento/Adobe certifications, he has very clearly validated his skills. Leon was happy to come share with us a few of the crazy circumstances he has worked through and the challenges he’s overcome in recent past.
2:18
5 different parties connected with the same project. Using things like “feature environments”, how do you make sure good code gets into the staging environment with all of these 3rd party developers and complicated groups involved?
5:38
How does Leon’s CI Pipeline handle this kind of management and what tools are they using to keep things streamlined and smooth?
9:30
SwiftOtter’s Magento 2 driver which can be found here.
12:20
Testing, acceptance environments and production deployment without losing process continuation.
15:32
Feature branches to prevent bad code from getting to production.
19:00
Code reviews have been on Joseph’s mind a lot recently, but we haven’t talked about automating code review yet. How will that work and when will automated checks be performed?
25:07
Leon’s most important piece(s) of advice to give, based on his experience. --
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