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Re:In praise of continuous deployment: The WordPress.com story by prosa on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @03:29PM (#1362043)
Continuous Deployment has been a tremendous boon to us at CollegeJobConnect. We make it work by:

    - Being maniacal about integration tests
    - Manually testing key flows (user registration in particular)
    - Hoptoad exception tracking coupled with push email
    - cap deploy:rollback
When you have production database migrations things get a little trickier. We are still looking for better ways to handle migrations in general, including leveraging systems like MongoDB.
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Re:In praise of continuous deployment: The WordPress.com story by minalecs on Thursday May 20, 2010 @10:35AM (#1364102)
are you manually testing, on your production environments ?
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Re:In praise of continuous deployment: The WordPress.com story by prosa on Friday May 21, 2010 @10:34AM (#1367428)
When we make significant changes to elements that affect certain critical aspects of our site (a very limited number of specific places, like user registration) we sometimes walk through manually just so we can sleep a bit easier. To date, our test coverage has been sound and we haven't caught anything this way. It may be redundant but we like to see it for ourselves just to be sure.
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