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Testing and continuous integration

Testing and continuous integration

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Testing and continuous integration

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- [Instructor] Once your team is off and running building your apps, it'll be important for you to implement and maintain a decent testing process. This will ensure that the final builds are bug-free and perform. Testing is a huge topic, and there are many different kinds and ways to implement, but I want to give a quick intro because it's important for CTOs to have a good process in place and to be aware. There are two main categories of testing: functional testing and non-functional testing. Usually when we talk about testing, we're talking about functional testing. This is essentially the rooting out of bugs in our code. The most rudimentary form of testing is manual. This is simply testing by using the app. You can do this in-house, there are crowdsourced alternatives out there also that have testers that manually test your app in different environments. This can work as a minimum when you're on a tight budget, and is something you'll want to do at the end to make sure the app…

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