Agile Software Development Rocks!

Agile software development definitely rocks! Our own, custom-built version of this methodology, which we call RRápido, has allowed us to push dozens of improvements to our service during the past two weeks. We have published 15 new versions of the Merrcury Engine (the software behind LetMeGo), more than one per day. The changes have been processed and published so fast, in fact, that we haven’t had time to update our automated selenium tests. As a consequence, most of those tests are failing right now. Fortunately, we have hundreds of unit tests that run before and after every publication, and the system must pass all of them before publications are certified. This has allowed us to significantly reduce the chances of creating new bugs as we release new features.

Screenshot of our publishing scripts running the unit tests before a new release.

Alexander Torrenegra

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Alexander is LetMeGo's co-founder and jefe. Here is his LetMeGo profile. You can follow him on Twitter @torrenegra.

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