Role of DevOps in Mobile App Development

Over the past 5 years, mobile devices have become the primary source of accessing the internet for millions of people around the globe. These trends have scrambled many industries to adapt towards the shift in business application users by developing a mobile app for their business application.
During the early years of this shift, IT industry focused on meeting the market demand and businesses focused on creating a market presence and they overlooked to focus on app development costs, security, maintainability, code quality, etc.
Presently as the underlying surge has settled down, it’s a great opportunity to focus around these issues and embrace new methodologies to lessen cost and increase quality.
In this blog, we will be discussing the DevOps approach in Mobile App Development, the major challenges faced, and best practices to overcome those challenges.




What is DevOps?

 DevOps is a modern software engineering approach that focuses on effective collaboration between project managers, developers, operations staff while aligning with enterprise business objectives. 

The conventional techniques utilized before the DevOps approach lacked a powerful coordinated effort between various departments of Software Development which eventually lead to additional time in development, more holes in customer pocket, and results in customer dissatisfaction.

Benefits of Adopting DevOps

 DevOps has brought the development and operations team on the same page. Before DevOps, developers used to write the complete code and then convey it to the operations team. With DevOps process, responsibilities are distributed equally among different teams with a single goal that each team has clear visibility of application performance.

Adopting DevOps in your Enterprise offers –

 Continuous Software Delivery
Enhanced Customer Experience
Faster Resolution of Bug Fixes/Problems
Higher Employee Engagement
Faster Delivery of the Product
More Stable Environment for Easy Deployments
More Time for Innovation

Increased Efficiency



6C’s of DevOps Adoption



  • Continuous Planning
Continuous Planning refers to bringing your entire team like the developers, business analyst, testers, and operations teams on the common platform to determine the scope of the application in the preparation of a release plan.

  • Continuous Integration
Continuous Integration (CI) addresses the developers community by focusing on error-free builds following the best practices and standards of the version control.

  • Continuous Testing
Testing is an important part of the Software Development Lifecycle. Testing ensures the quality of the product delivered to the customer. Continuous Testing in DevOps emphasis on automation of all the phases of Software Testing.

  • Continuous Monitoring

Continuous Monitoring ensures that the application is performing as desired and the production environment is kept stable no matter the frequency of changes without any human interaction.

  • Continuous Delivery
Continuous Delivery is the practice that ensures that the code is deployed to the production environment by delivering every change to a production like an environment.

  • Continuous Deployment

The next step of Continuous Delivery is Continuous Deployment. Every change that passes the automated tests through Continuous Testing is deployed to the production environment automatically.










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