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Appian Continous Delivery Framework

Business Challenge

  • Inability to respond to the increasing business demands for new features and functionality
  • Long delays in making minor development changes or additions to existing production applications
  • Regimented quarterly release cycles due to lengthy test and regression cycles
  • Inability to innovate at pace

Appian Continous Delivery Framework

Solution Overview

ACD utilizes Appian’s BPM platform to achieve the Automated Build, Automated Test and Automated Deployment of an application. It provides a single view of the Release Orchestration process across various environments i.e. Development, System Integration Test, System Acceptance Test, User Acceptance Test and Production. ACD considers a Release as a ‘Process’ within Appian and tracks it end-to-end, enforcing best practices on the following lines:

  • Pre-Deployment Code quality checks in Development including ability to upload validation scripts
  • Leverage Appian’s Batch Testing modules to validate the build in Development, prior to deployment
  • Automatic creation of the build within Development for deployment
  • Automated Deployment of the build to upstream environments using tools like IBM uDeploy, Jenkins and CA‘s Release Automation
  • Cross-check deployment by comparing validation rules and automated testing results across environments
  • Automated Smoke and Functional Testing of the build in higher environments using tools like Selenium and FitNesse
  • Generation of release notes and other build artefacts, related to the release

Appian Continous Delivery Framework

Solution Benefits

  • Deploys applications with lower risks and fewer failures
  • Provides a 360° view of all release processes, deployments and build levels across multiple environments
  • Performs automated smoke testing before and after deployments
  • Automates quality checks before and after deployment for each build
  • Performs full regression tests as required in each environment
  • Sends real time notifications and alerts of the deployment statuses
  • Uses out of the box connectors to integrate with commonly used test automation tools like Selenium and FitNesse
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