Is your code Toggled?!? By Devi Sridharan & Siddhartha Deshpande
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The document outlines the principles of Agile methodology, emphasizing customer satisfaction, responsiveness to change, and the importance of working software. It discusses feature toggles, their types, and implementation strategies, highlighting their role in application development and testing. The text advocates for minimizing the use of toggles while suggesting that continuous integration and visibility into work streams can enhance software development.
Is your code Toggled?!? By Devi Sridharan & Siddhartha Deshpande
- 1. Is your code Toggled?!? Confidential | Copyright © Agile Testing Alliance Global Gathering Devi Sridharan Siddhartha Deshpande
- 2. What is Agile? Confidential | Copyright © Agile Testing Alliance Global Gathering
- 3. According to Agile Manifesto... The Agile Manifesto is based on 12 principles 1.Customer satisfaction by rapid delivery of useful software 2.Welcome changing requirements, even late in development 3.Working software is delivered frequently (weeks rather than months) 4.Close, daily cooperation between business people and developers 5.Projects are built around motivated individuals, who should be trusted 6.Face-to-face conversation is the best form of communication (co-location) 7.Working software is the principal measure of progress 8.Sustainable development, able to maintain a constant pace 9.Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design 10.Simplicity—the art of maximizing the amount of work not done—is essential 11.Self-organizing teams 12.Regular adaptation to changing circumstances Confidential | Copyright © Agile Testing Alliance Global Gathering
- 4. Branches -Release branch Master & single work-in-branch -Feature branch o Master & Multiple branches Confidential | Copyright © Agile Testing Alliance Global Gathering
- 5. Release Branch -Delayed integration -Hotfixes has to wait till next release. -Can’t add any code if its not part of current release Confidential | Copyright © Agile Testing Alliance Global Gathering Trunk Release Branches
- 6. Feature Branches -Merging becomes very difficult -Increases the testing effort -Lot of time spent on Regression & Integration Testing -Reduces the re-usability of shared automate test-suite Confidential | Copyright © Agile Testing Alliance Global Gathering Feature 1 Trunk Feature 2
- 7. Feature Toggle!?! -What is toggle? -Feature Toggle is a conditional statement that hides certain functionality. Confidential | Copyright © Agile Testing Alliance Global Gathering
- 8. Guard the code Confidential | Copyright © Agile Testing Alliance Global Gathering
- 9. Types of Feature Toggles -Release Toggles: (Development Environment) - Hide incomplete features and are removed as soon as feature is ready -Business Toggles: (Business Sponsors) - Enable feature for group of people and can be changed on fly Confidential | Copyright © Agile Testing Alliance Global Gathering
- 10. Feature Toggles is opt for…. -Hiding or disabling new features in UI -Hiding/Disabling new components -To support multiple versions of feature/component -Adding new feature to an application -Enhancing an existing feature Confidential | Copyright © Agile Testing Alliance Global Gathering
- 11. How to implement ? - Config files - Toggle manager controlled by Admin - Session cookie Confidential | Copyright © Agile Testing Alliance Global Gathering
- 12. Lets Toggle!! Few ways to control the application using toggles -via server-side -via client-side -URL parameterization -Javascript Confidential | Copyright © Agile Testing Alliance Global Gathering
- 13. via server pros -Feature is available,till next build is deployed -No further setup is needed cons -Need to wait for deployment to complete -Switching between toggles is difficult Confidential | Copyright © Agile Testing Alliance Global Gathering
- 14. via client - Need to know feature flag to enable it - Feature is available,only on local machine - Testing becomes easier,as we have more control of application Confidential | Copyright © Agile Testing Alliance Global Gathering
- 15. Business toggles -Used in production environment -To enable A/B testing -Release features to group of users for early feedback Confidential | Copyright © Agile Testing Alliance Global Gathering
- 16. While implementing toggles... -Try to keep less number of toggles -Mutually Exclusive toggles -Remove the toggles as soon as corresponding feature is implemented completely Confidential | Copyright © Agile Testing Alliance Global Gathering
- 17. What will you achieve…?! -Continuous integration -More visibility into all work streams -No merge conflicts and hence easy to refactor the code -Reduced time spent on testing Confidential | Copyright © Agile Testing Alliance Global Gathering
- 18. Having said…. Feature toggle is second best solution. The best solution is to find a way to gradually integrate, without feature toggles or feature switches Confidential | Copyright © Agile Testing Alliance Global Gathering
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Editor's Notes
- #8: Feature Toggles are also known as feature flags, feature switches, feature flippers, conditional features.