Re: Practice: Daily Deployment

On May 26, 2005, at 2:21 AM, Adrian Howard wrote:

>
> On 26 May 2005, at 07:20, Kent Beck wrote:
> [snip]
>>  As long as you don't change the user's
>> experience of the system, you can deploy all the rest of that work.
>> On the
>> last day you put the "keystone" in place, the change to the user
>> interface.
> [snip]
>
> Hmmm... how do you manage that in a way that can get you useful
> feedback? If the new UI is the only way to get at new features
> they're not going to get tested until the keystone stage. Or am I
> missing something?

You can be running acceptance tests against the functionality
before you put the keystone in.

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