• Use source code control and branching to manage change
• Write automated unit and integration tests for confidence when refactoring and increased quality
• Create an automated build script to manage release complexity and provide release consistency
• Setup a continuous integration server to ensure continual quality control
• Make your software production ready for release
• Understand why configuration management is important and how to integrate it into your project
• Write a load test script to undertake performance testing
• Understand how to handover your system to an operational environment

Day 1

Source code control

• Why is source code control important?
• How does it work?
• How do you install and use it?
• How can you use branches to manage change?

Automated unit testing, integration testing and code coverage

• I know that my code works, why do you need to write automated tests?
• Is this test-driven development (TDD)?
• How do you introduce automated unit testing into a project?
• How do you know what to test?
• How do you know how much has been tested?

Day 2

Build scripts and automated builds

• What's the point? It works on my machine!
• Doesn't an automated build just compile the code?
• How do you install a build tool and introduce it into a project?

Continuous integration

• What's the point? It works on my machine!
• How do you install a continuous integration server and introduce it into a project?
• What else can you do with it?

Releasing your code

• What's wrong with simply copying the compiled classes to a server?
• How can you make releases easier?
• Are there are strategies for simplifying deployment and configuration?

Day 3

Configuration management

• Something has gone wrong but I'm not sure which version of the application is running and what the changes were. Help!
• How can you introduce configuration management into a project?

Evaluating your architecture

• I think that the application is fast enough, but how could you test it?
• What is load testing and how do you introduce it into a project?
• How do you interpret the results?

Handing over the system

• It's not my job to run the system!
• What sort of things would help an operational team monitor and manage an application?
• How do you introduce them into a project?

Wrap-up and review