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Re:Trunk-Based Development by icebraining on Sunday January 29, 2017 @07:35PM (#13517768)
And with n feature flags, aren't there also n! permutations to test, that is, each combination of enabled/disabled? If you say no, because you just test features as they get manually enabled, why can't you do the same by manually selecting branches to be merged?
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Re:Trunk-Based Development by einrealist on Monday January 30, 2017 @05:04AM (#13519821)
Yes, that complexity does not go away. But you only need one delivery pipeline, with one test/staging environment. Toggling and running acceptance tests against the variations can be automated, but is viable when done manually.
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Re:Trunk-Based Development by susam on Monday January 30, 2017 @05:20AM (#13519884)
With n feature flags, there are 2^n possibilities to test.
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