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Exercises
1. Describe the steps of the service delivery platform's deployment phase.
2. Describe continuous delivery and its benefits.
3. Which kinds of testing are common in service delivery?
4. In your organization's service delivery platform, which of the kinds of testing lis-
ted in Section 10.2 are and aren't done? Which benefits would you hope to gain by
adding the missing tests?
5. What is the approval chain for software in your organization's service delivery
process? How are the approvals requested and responses communicated?
6. How could the approval chain in your organization be automated?
7. Apply the deployment-phase techniques from this chapter to an organization that
does not do software development, but instead chooses to use off-the-shelf com-
mercial software.
8. In your environment, what are the steps to prepare a new machine? Which are
automated? How could the non-automated steps be automated?
9. Does your your organization use continuous delivery? Which parts of your current
platform would need to change to achieve CD?
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